1892. ] F. W. Anderson. 81 
His friendships were keen and constant; slow to form an 
affection, but once formed they were warm and enduring. He 
sought his friendships among the good, the diligent and the 
lovers of nature. By us who knew him best his loss is most 
keenly felt, and the botanical world is the loser not only of 
the talent he had exhibited, but, prospectively, of the greater 
things which his short career promised. 
Helena, Montana. 
Enumeration of the Kansas mosses. 
F. RENAULD AND J. CARDOT. 
Part of the United States: the atmospheric dryness, a 
climate extensively variable and liable to extremes of temper- 
ature and the extension of cultivated and meadow lands are 
: the poverty of this bryological flora. For 
* long time it was a common belief that this land was almost 
entirely destitute of mosses; but it has been proved by recent 
researches that such is not the case, and if the moss-flora of 
— fountry is very poor in comparison with that of other 
States it includes, however, a relatively important number of 
Species. The most part of these, however, grow in meagre, 
stunted and sterile specimens, which often makes their deter- 
very difficult. 
hy 1884-85-86 Mr. Eugene A. Rau published in the Bud/etin 
College Laboratory of Natural History four 
he knowledge of Kansas mosses, including 
: three species, collected chiefly by Prof. F. W. 
os: Mara Becker and Mr. Joseph Henry. The last, 
October 12, 1887, aged more than 74 years, sent 
€ year 1885. and until his death, all the species 
cted in Saline county, and by the study of this 
viously epiiccea raaeg oo forty species to those pre- 
the fpresent catalogue includes all the mosses recorded in 
that hg lists published by this bryologist and all those 
€Teceived from Mr. Jos. Henry. Several of these re- 
Ol. XVIT.—No, 3. 
