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Dicranum Starkei W. & M. A rare alpine moss. — White 

 Mts., Idaho, Wash., Vancouver Id., Rocky Mts., Selkirk Mts., 

 Smith's Sound. 



Dicranum iindulatum Ehrh. A moss of lowlands, widely 

 distributed.— N. J., N. Eng., New Brunswick, Newfoundland, 

 Labrador, Ontario, Mich., 111., Minn., Vancouver Id., Brit. Col. 



Dicranum viride (S. & L.) Lindb. Characteristic of forests 

 and shady places; widely scattered east of eastern slope of Rocky 

 Mts. Seems to be replaced by D. strictum (Schleich), in the 

 West. — -Va., N. Y., Vt., New Brunswick, Ontario, Newfoundland, 

 C, Wis., Minn. Reported at Morley, in Rocky Mts., by J. 

 Macoun. 



Grimmia mollis B. & S. in the United States. 



Last summer, while on a vacation outing in northwestern 

 Montana, I collected some mosses around Lake McDonald, Flat- 

 head county. Sperry Glacier, about ten miles east of the north 

 end of that lake, was one of the objective points of our collecting 

 trips. It was at the foot of this glacier that I found a curious soft 

 Grimmia, which on investigation after my return home, proved to 

 be Grimmia mollis B. & S. This is the first discovery of this 

 truly glacial moss on the North American continent. In Europe 

 it occurs, usually above 6,000 feet altitude, in the Pyrenees, the 

 Alps, the mountains of Bohemia, and of the Scandinavian Penin- 

 sular, always near glaciers, or streams fed by glaciers or snow- 

 fields. It has also been found in Greenland. This distribution 

 makes its almost certain that Grimmia mollis also occurs in the 

 Canadian Rockies. But whether it has come to our regions by 

 way of Greenland around the north, or south of Hudson's Bay, or 

 by way of the Alaskan mountains, across Behring's Strait, from 

 the direction of Siberia, needs to be determined by finding inter- 

 mediate stations. — John M. Holzinger. 



Mosses For Distribution. 



Mosses offered the Chapter are: By Mrs. E. G. Britton, 103d 

 St. and Amsterdam Ave., New York City, Dicranum viride for a 

 self-addressed stamped envelope; by A. J. Grout, D. Driimmondii, 

 D. spurium, D. longifolium and Dicranella heteromalla, for ten 

 cents to members. 



A Correction. 



In the second line of the second paragraph on page 41 of the 

 1898 Fern Bulletin, for "asexual" read "sexual." We hereby 

 acknowledge our obligation to the subscriber who called our at- 

 tention to this slip of the types. 



