Rhodora | 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 10. March, 1908. No. 111. 
SOME MOSSES FROM AROOSTOOK COUNTY, MAINE. 
J. FRANKLIN COLLINS. 
A very interesting small packet of mosses, collected in Caribou Bog 
at Crystal in southern Aroostook County, Maine, by Professor and 
Mrs. M. L. Fernald, was recently handed to me for determination. 
It contained one species of Sphagnum, one hepatic, and four true 
mosses. The Sphagnum is S. teres Angstr., a moss of wide distribu- 
tion in northern Eurasia and North America, having been recorded 
on this continent at various places from Labrador to British Columbia, 
and southward to New England and New Jersey, including Maine. 
The hepatic has been determined by Dr. Evans. He writes “ Your 
hepatic from Maine (5351) is a slender form of Riccardia pinguis 
(L.) S. Е. Gray. I have not before seen it from this state." It has 
previously been reported in New England from New Hampshire, 
Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. 
The four species of true mosses have not, so far as the writer knows, 
been hitherto recorded from Maine, yet all of them, judging from their 
previously known distribution, should have been expected to occur in 
the state. In their general distribution they may be classed as north- 
ern mosses reaching their southern limits in the bogs and swamps, 
usually if not always limy, of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, 
or Ohio, or in the general latitude of 40? N. Their names, together 
with the previously recorded distribution of each, are given below. 
Hypnum stellatum Schreb. Eurasia. Greenland, Hudson Strait, 
Labrador, Newfoundland, Miquelon, Anticosti, Gaspé, Vermont, 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Lake Superior, 
Manitoba, Montana, Athabasca, Canadian Rockies, British Columbia, 
Yukon, Alaska. 
