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loves deep, shady, damp woods at rather high elevations, and wild 

 places, and is more or less abundant in such localities. I have 

 found it completelv surrounding a large hole in the trunk of a 

 buttonball tree { P lataiii/s) or\ the bank of the Holston River in 

 Virginia, also on Buckeye, forming dense, velvety green cush- 

 ions all around the rim of the hole, which was filled with water. In 

 the Adirondack Mountains it grows on fallen beech trees around 

 the base of Mt. Marcy, and I once found it in a blaze on a stand- 

 ing tree on the Boreas range. It is represented in the Herbarium 

 of Columbia University from the following stations: Maine, 

 Massachusetts. New York and New Jersej-. Pennsylvania. Ohio, 

 Illinois, Louisana and Texas. It fruits from April to Novem- 

 ber, according to locality, the Texas station being the earliest, as 

 might have been expected. The following notes from other col- 

 lectors are interesting, and we believe that Mr. Burnett has dupli- 

 cates for those who wish to exchange with him, — Elizabeth (/. 

 Brittoii, Torre}' Botanical Club, Xe-cc ) 'ork. 



Mrs. Brittou and myself collected Anacamptodon two or three 

 times during a memorable trip to the mountains of southwestern 

 Virginia in 1S92. The last time we found it we went through a 

 particularly beautiful valley in the neighborhood of the small ham- 

 let, Troutdale, on the borders of North Carolina. A legendary high 

 cliff where " many mosses grow" was the goal of our journey. 

 We walked several miles, almost loosing ourselves in one of the 

 most magnificent of forests. Magnolias, tulips, cherry and wal- 

 nut trees, oaks and maples were there in profusion, with many 

 others too numerous to mention. Our feet sank deep in the dense 

 mossy carpet and at every turn there was something new and in- 

 teresting to see and gather. The little scrap of Anacamptodon 

 was found growing on a small dry twig, and much to our regret 

 it was all that we found. Needless to say we did not reach the 

 cHffs which to this day seem an El Dorado for future moss col- 

 lectors in that locaUty.— Anna Murray Vail, Neiu York City. 



Twice only during my four years collecting have I found 

 specimens of Anacamptodon splachnoides: in both instances in 

 open woods on the hills nearly 2,000 feet above sea level. Sunda)-, 

 July 25, while strolling along the banks of a creek about two miles 

 from this city. I found in swampy ground at the base of a maple 

 a mass of this moss over fifteen inches in length and from two 

 to five inches in breadth. Owing to irregularities in the surface I 

 coundnot remove it entire, but the fragments secured aggregated 



