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MUSCL 
SPHAGNUM GIRGENSOHNH, L?ussow. 
Sphagnous swamps. Common. July. This moss resembles 
large forms of S. acutifolium. Its branches, however, are gener- 
ally longer and more distant, the stems thicker, and, when moist, 
more brittle. When viewed from above in its native swamps it 
usually presents a more stellate appearance, its five-ranked branches 
being less condensed at the summit of the stem than they are in 
that species. I have seen no red specimens, which are so com- 
mon in S. acutifolium. Its inflorescence is dicecious. A form 
occurs on the moist rocks of the Adirondack Mountains not unlike 
S. teres in general appearance. 
SPHAGNUM WULFIANUM, Girgen. 
Knolls and slight elevations in sphagnous swamps. Moreau, 
Saratoga county. E.C. Howe. Sandlake. Sterile. 
A species easily recognized by its rigid red stems and numerous 
short branches, those at the summit of the stem being crowded into 
a dense subglobose head. 
SpHAGNUM RECURVUM, Beauv. 
Swamps and bogs. Common. July. This species has been 
considered by some to be only a variety of S. cuspidatum, but it 
will probably prove to be a good species. It is not difficult to sepa- 
rate it from the various forms of S. cuspidatum, its branches being 
more uniform in length and curvature, and the leaves evenly 
ranked and considerably recurved. The spores are yellow. 
SpHaenum Laricinum, Lindbg. 
Cranberry marsh, Sandlake; its only known locality in this 
country. August. 
A variety closely resembling S. cuspidatum. 
Awnopus ponranus, Bryol. Hurop. 
Shaded rocks. Little Falls. July. Not yet found elsewhere in 
this country, but collected by Drummond in British America. It 
is an extremely small species. 
PALUDELLA squarRRosa, L. 
Swamps. Arcadia, Waynecounty. Hankenson. Warren, Her- 
kimer county. Sterile. Found in British America by Drummond. 
A very pretty moss—the bright green, recurved-squarrose leaves 
contrasting beautifully with the dense reddish brown radicular 
tomentum. 
