so 



official organ of the Wild Flower Preservation Society of America 

 was approved. Hereafter notices to the members, and other 

 matter of interest to them will appear in Torreya,* and reprints 

 of such notices will be made as occasion demands and mailed to 

 members of the Society and others. 



In connection with the button, mentioned above, one has been 

 sent to each member of the Society and additional buttons will 

 be furnished at the rate of 2 cents each, or $1.50 per hundred. 

 It is hoped that they will have a wide usefulness for school 

 children and others. 



Application for extra buttons, or any other information about 

 the Society's business should be sent to the new secretary- 

 treasurer, 



Norman Taylor 



Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



COMMON MOSSES ACCORDING TO HABITAT. A 



NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION BASED ON 



MACROSCOPICAL CHARACTERS 



By Daisy J. Levy 



(Continued from March Torreya, p. 67) 



DESCRIPTION OF ACROCARPOUS SPECIES 



AULACOMNIXmr. 



A. heterostichum. 



Capsules wrinkled when dry. Costa ends below the apex. Capsule 

 contracted. Operculum long rostrate. Plant radiculose. Mature in 

 spring. 

 A. palustre. 



Leaves light colored, long lanceolate, bearing numerous pseudopodia; 

 serrate at apex, revolute below; erect spreading; transversely undulate; 

 costa ending below the apex. Capsule curved, unsymmetric, plicate when 

 dry. Operculum long beaked. Seta long. Plants light colored, yellow 

 green; very tomentose. Mature in early summer. 

 Barbula. 



Leaves erect spreading, mucronate, margin recurved below; costa 



usually ends below the apex. Capsule small. Seta yellow; operculum 



beaked. Small tufted plants. Mature in winter. 



* The subscription price of Torreya is one dollar a year and subscriptions 



may be sent to Dr. B. O. Dodge, department. of botany, Columbia University, 



New York City. 



