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SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. 
THE MOSSES OF THE AZORES. 
BY J. CARDOT. 
In 1870, in Godman’s Natural History of the Azores, 
Mr. Mitten published a catalogue of the Muscineae observed 
in those islands as well as at Madeira and in the Canaries. 
That list contains, for the Azores, 44 mosses and 3 sphagna, 
gathered by Hunt, Watson and Godman. Since that time, 
at least to my knowledge, no new indication had been added 
to the stock of information we possessed about the bryo- 
logical flora of this group of islands. Mr. William 
Trelease, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, hay- 
ing intrusted to me the study of mosses gathered in the 
Azores by himself and by Mr. C. S. Brown, Dr. Bruno 
Carreiro and Sr. C. Machado, in 1894 and 1896, Ihave found 
in these collections 52 species, of which 30 are not men- 
tioned in Mr. Mitten’s Catalogue; and among these 30, eight 
species and three varieties are entirely new. I have re- 
ceived also, through my excellent friend M. F. Renauld, 
some species, collected in 1895 and 1896, in the crater of 
Graciosa and on the peak of Pico, by MM. Blanchy, 
Richard and Minelle, during the last scientific cruises of 
H.H. the Prince of Monaco’s yacht. 
These several contributions raise to 80 the total number 
of species of mosses (not counting the Sphagna) thus far 
observed in the Azores. They are distributed in the 
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