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A LIST OF INDIANA MOSSES. 
T. G. YuNcKER, DePauw University. 
Reports of mosses occurring in Indiana have been, in the main, meager 
and local, with only one report, by Professor L. M. Underwood, including 
species from more than one county. The writer has had the privilege of 
examining three collections of mosses that have not been hitherto reported 
upon. These collections include a large number of specimens collected from 
all parts of the state and it was thought that a list including all these collec- 
tions together with all those previously reported upon would be of value in- 
diecating the presence and distribution of our moss flora. 
Probably one of the largest collections of mosses in the state that has not 
previously been reported is that belonging to Mr. C. C. Deam. Mr. Deam’s 
eollection includes specimens from nearly every part of the state. The 
writer has had the privilege of examining and identifying this collection 
during the past year.* Another large and excellently prepared and pre- 
served collection is that owned by Professor J. P. Naylor of DePauw Uni- 
versity. Although a physicist, Professor Naylor has been an enthusiastic 
collector and student of mosses for many years and has built up a large 
collection mainly from Putnam County. Miss Lucey Allen, a former student 
at DePauw, made a small collection from Putnam County which is depos- 
ited in the DePauw University herbarium. In addition to these three un- 
reported collections all the species reported in puk<:stions on Indiana 
mosses known to the writer have been included in i. + list which includes 
one hundred and seventy-four species, thirty-two of which are being re- 
ported from Indiana for the first time, it is believed. Under each species 
is given a list of the counties where it has been found together with the 
collector’s name in parenthesis. The arrangement and nomenclature is 
essentially that of Grout’s “Mosses With Hand Lens and Microscope”’. 
The following bibliographical list indicates the publications from which 
lists of mosses have been taken and incorporated in the present report. Pro- 
fessor Underwood included in his report a few specimens collected by 
Barnes, Blatchley, Mottier and Roll. None of the collections included in 
the following bibliographical list have been seen by the writer with the ex- 
ception of the one made by Professor Underwood which is deposited in the 
DePauw University herbarium. 
Haines, Mrs. Mary P., A list of ferns, mosses, Hepaticae and lichens in 
Wayne County, Indiana. 9th & 10th Ann. Rept., Geol. Survey of Indi- 
ana. pp. 235-239. 1879. 
Pickett, F. L., and Nothnagel, Mildred, The mosses of Monroe County. 
Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. pp. 69-75. 19138. 
Pickett, F. L., and Nothnagel, Mildred, The mosses of Monroe County, II. 
Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. pp 103-105. 1914. 
Underwood, L. M., List of cryptogams at present known to inhabit the state 
of Indiana. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sei. pp. 65-67. 1894. 
*Doubtful specimens were referred to Dr. A. J. Grout and Mr. G. B. Kaiser of 
Philadelphia for verification. 
