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LIST OF MOSSES 



OF THE 



STATE OF NEW-YORK. 



BY CIT AISLES H. PECK. 



The following list is intended to contain the names of all the Mosses 

 hitherto detected in the State of New York. The habitat, and time of 

 maturing the frnit are given, and, of the rarer species, the station also. It 

 has been thought advisable to reproduce brief descriptions of those species 

 not described in Sullivant's Mosses of the United States, and to add 

 occasional remarks concerning the peculiarities of certain species and the 

 distinguishing characters of such as are closely related. 



Grateful acknowledgments are rendered to that distinguished and expe- 

 rienced bryologist, Leo Lesquereux, Esq., of Columbus, Ohio, for much 

 kind assistance in the preparation of this List. He has freely communi- 

 cated the names, habitat, etc., of numerous species collected by him on the 

 Adirondack Mountains, and in other parts of the State ; and has authenti- 

 cated a large number of the other species'herein recorded. 



Much aid has also been received from our own indefatigable botanist, 

 the Hon. GtEORGE W. Clinton, of Buffalo, at whose suggestion this work 

 was undertaken, and from whom contributions of many species from Western 

 New-York and the vicinity of Niagara Falls have been received. 



Coe F. Austin, Esq , of Closter, New- Jersey, has kindly contributed 

 sjiecies both of Mosses and of Liverworts, from Orange county and the 

 Shawangunk Mountains. To them and to others due credit is herein given ; 

 their names signifying the authority for the statements made in the particu- 

 lar sentences to which they are respectively annexed. 



ORDER MJJ SCI.— Mosses. 

 SPHAGNUM, Dill. 



S, CYMBTFOLIUM, Eh7'h. 



Peat bogs and marshes. Frequent and variable. July. 

 S. pylaesii, Brid. 



Humected surface of granite rocks, top of Mt. Marcy, Adirondack 

 mountains; sterile, L. Lesquereux. 



