1899] Collins, — Bryophyte flora of Maine 33 
stalks are 10-12 cm. long, and 2 cm. wide. One of them tapers 
upward to the peridium, the other is about as thick there as anywhere. 
Both are irregularly cylindrical masses of interlaced anastomosing 
strands, and taper gradually at the base to a blunt tip. They are much 
larger and longer than those of the preceding species, and show no 
trace of red or brown color. The diameter of the separate strands (on 
the exterior of the bundle) is rarely more than 1 mm., and generally 
less. The spores are pale yellow, globose, verrucose ; diam. 7-10 p. 
Records of the early stages and íresh condition of this plant are 
much to be desired. It has been reported from Alabama, West Vir- 
ginia and Virginia; but there seems no good reason why it should not 
be sought in New England, and further notes upon it will be welcomed. 
The following key to the American species may be of use: — 
Spores round, verrucose, plant yellowish, . . . C. lutescens. 
Spores e//ptic-oblong, echinulate, peridium red or reddish, . . . 
C. cinnabarinum. 
Spores eliptic-oblong, smooth, exoperidium persistent in the 
form of scales all over the yellowish endoperidium. . . 
C. Ravenedit. 
NOTES ON THE BRYOPHYTE FLORA OF MAINE. — I. 
J. FRANKLIN COLLINS. 
Maine has probably been more neglected by the bryologist than 
any other New England state. So far as I am able to ascertain only 
two lists of the bryophytes of any portion of the state have ever been 
published, and those were both of Mt. Desert and the adjacent islands. 
The region covered by these lists constitutes only about one third of 
one per cent. of the area of the whole state. 
During the last three seasons, several members of the Josselyn 
Botanical Society of Maine, have devoted a portion of their time to 
collecting bryophytes. As this material is gradually being overhauled 
and determined, it seems advisable to publish an occasional local list, 
particularly when the localities represented are more or less widely 
separated, or when interesting additions are to be recorded, thus form- 
ing a basis for future work of this nature in each of the regions. It is 
especially desired that specimens of species not included in these lists 
be forwarded to the writer. 
1 T. G. White in Asa Gray Bulletin, 1: 2 (No. 1) 1893 and 2: 44 (No. 7), 1894; 
Rand and Redfield in * Flora of Mt. Desert” (1894). 
