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Patria, Oregon, ubi Rev. R. D. Nevius secus Portland primum 
legit, vere, 1873. 
This beautiful Homalothecium seems to be quite frequent in Or 
egon. In every lot of mosses received from different localities in 
the eastern part of the State specimens of it have been found 
mixed with Neckera Menziesii, Mnium Menziesii, undoubtedly 
growing with those mosses on rich ground or upon moss-clad 
rocks in shady places. 
2, Bryum Atwateriz, C. Miller, x. spec., Bryum alpinum simil- 
limum, e lutescenti-viridi purpurascens, robustum, strictum, ramis 
longiusculis obtusatis uncialibus; folia caulina dense imbricats 
madore vix patula, e basi angustiori latiuscule ovata ligulate ob- 
tusata, profunde cochleariformia concava apice subcucullata, margi- 
nee basi usque ad medium vel ultra valde revoluta integerrima, 
firma, nervo e basi longe fibroso crasso flavido ante apicem evanido 
cellulis ubique firmis pulchre lutescentibus parvis et inanibus basi 
infima rectangularibus vel hexagonis laxioribus hie illic purpuras- 
centibus. 5 
Patria, California, prope Yosemite Falls, in terra saxosa, Mrs, 
E. Atwater leg. wst., 1873. : 
- About the particular habitat of this rare moss the discoverer 
makes the following remarks, which might serve a future visitor 
interested in botany to find more and fructi/erous specimens: 
“Tt was foundatthe foot of a tree on the rocky ground at the 
foot of the fall, where it was only temporarily the recipient of the 
spray from the same, when the wind was in a favorable direction. 
Earlier in the season, at a higher stage of the water, the locality 
would doubtless have received constant moisture from this source.” 
§ 107. Publications.—1. Report of the Botanist, Charles H. Peck, 
published April, 1874, in advance of the Twenty-sixth Annual Re- 
port on the New York State Museum of Natural History for the 
year 1872. The industrious State Botanist here continues his con- 
tributions to the Fungology of the State, and makes some interesting 
observations in regard to some of the higher plants. Twelve of the 
latter, including two Charas, are reported new to the State, six of 
the twelve from Long Island, and heretofore mentioned in the 
Butter, are to be found in Miller & Young’s Catalogue. The 
others are: Pycnanthenum pilosum, Nutt, Wayne Co.; As- 
plenium inontanum, Willd., Ulster Co., and the two Charas, 
OC. hispida, C. Hedwigii, introduced; Torilis anthriscus, Gaert, 
Buffalo; Chenopodium polyspermum, L, Onondaga County. 
We notice that Mr. Gerard’s Peziza chrysophthalma has again 
met with a typographical misfortune—2. Transactions of the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the year 1874, Part T.; 
devoted to Discussions on various subjects connected with Hor-. 
 ticulture, in which the Orchids have a large and interesting share 
_ —3. Psyche, Organ of the Cambridge Entomological Club, edited 
by B. Pickman Mann, Nos. I. to IV., May to August. Each No. 
will contain at least four pages, price one dollar a year. This little 
periodical follows the example of our Buitetin, beginning on a 
small scale, intending to take root and grow. ‘The first No. con- 
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