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Polytrichum juniperinum Willd. 



Roadsides and pastures. Common. June. The leaves of this 

 species are entire on the margin and terminate in a reddish or brownish 

 awn-hke point. 



Polytrichum strictum Banks 



Bogs, swamps and high mountains. Avery ville swamp and Mt Mclntyre. 

 Distinguished from the preceding species by its more slender habit, more 

 compact mode of growth and by the dense whitish tomentum of the lower 

 part of the stems. 



Polytrichum Ohioense R. 6^ C. 



Ground and mossy logs and rocks in woods and shaded places. 

 Common and beautiful. July. Its lid has a long beak and a beautiful 

 red margin and the calyptra is shorter than the capsule. ■ 



Polytrichum commune L. 



Ground in pastures and open places. Common. June. When the 

 fertility of the soil begins to fail in old meadows and pastmxs, this 

 species and P. juniperinum promptly invade the fields and soon take 

 almost exclusive possession of the slight knolls that rise above the 

 general level. When these haircap mosses appear in a meadow it 

 should be taken as an indication that the land needs an application of 

 some fertilizer and renewed cultivation. 



Buxbaumia indusiata Brid. 



Old logs in woods. Moose island and base of Cobble hill. September. 

 Mrs Britton. This rare moss has also been found at the base of 

 Mt Whiteface and near Lake Placid by Mrs Britton and at Horseshoe 

 pond in St Lawrence county and near Tannersville in the Catskill moun- 

 tains by myself. 



Fontinalis Dalecarlica B. &= S. 



Mountain streams. Common in streams flowing into Lake Placid. 

 Mrs Britton. Near Freemans Home. 



Fontinalis antipyretica gigantea Sull. 



Lakes and streams. Brook on the trail to Connery pond. Mrs Britton. 

 Sluggish stream in swamp southeast of Brewster farm and in Clear lake. 

 Mrs Britton says of these two species of Fontinalis or fountain mosses, 

 that they are large and abundant but have not yet been collected in fruit 

 in the Adirondack region, that the latter prefers muddy slow streams 

 at lower elevations and the former, cold swift mountain streams at higher 

 altitudes. 



