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LAPSANA COMMUNIS L. Franklin (R. W. Woodward, RHODORA xx. 
98). 
tSoncuus ASPER (L.) Hill, var. PuNGENS Bischoff. Waste ground 
at Bridgeport (Eames). Flowers without ligules. 
E. B. HARGER, 
C. B. GRAVES, 
E. H. EAMES, 
C. H. BrssELL, 
C. A. WEATHERBY. 
SOME NOVA SCOTIA MOSSES. 
EpwiN B. BARTRAM. 
WHILE actively engaged in field work covering portions of central 
and southwestern Nova Scotia during July 1921 the writer, in com- 
pany with Prof. M. L. Fernald and Mr. Bayard Long, collected 
about 140 numbers of mosses. No attempt was made to obtain a 
representative series as the pressure of other work left only brief 
intervals in which to pick up any thing that was obviously interesting 
and close to hand but as the material was worked over several range 
extensions suggested that a brief survey of some of the more interesting 
species might not be unworthy of record. 
The bogs, lake shores and spruce woods of Yarmouth Co., where we 
spent most of out time, were relatively unproductive but as we worked 
north through Annapolis Co. into more broken country and on through 
the gypsum outcrops near Windsor to the granite and sandstone 
areas of Hants Co. and Halifax Co. the variety of species broadened 
to a rather gratifying extent. 
Sphagnum macrophyllum Bernh. Covering the bottom of a shallow 
arm of Five Island Lake, Hants Co. Dr. A. LeRoy Andrews in his 
letter verifying the determination of this species says that this is the 
first record outside of the range from Maine to Florida given in the 
North American Flora and therefore new to Canada. It seems to be 
one of pine barren elements like Sphagnum Pylaesii or Utricularia 
purpurea that has spread northward through the marshes and pools 
of the coastal plain at a time when a continuous land connection 
existed between Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and the coastal plain 
