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A MANUAL OF MOSSES 



.010 mm., mature in mid-summer ; calyptra covering the whole 

 capsule, rather lustrous, yellowish-brown. 



Cosmopolitan; in North America almost throughout, in 

 marshy places, pastures, woods, etc. 



Allegheny : Brush Creek, near Douthett, April 26, 

 / 1908. O. E. J. 



Armstrong : Buffalo Creek, east of W. Winfield, June 

 20, 1904. O. E. J. 



Beaver : Near Beaver, J. A. S. and W. N. M. Oc- 



tober 19, 1901. 



Butler : Buffalo Creek, near Winfield Jet., May 26, 



1906. O. E. J. 



Cambria : Cresson, May 18, 1904. O. E. J.; Lloyd- 



^•ille, July 23, 1908. O. E. J. 



Cameron : Miller, July 19, 1904. O. E. J. 



Center : Tussey's Mt., above Shingletown, July 



15, 1909. O. E. J.; Barrens near Scotia, 

 July 16, 1909. O. E. J. 



Crawford : Linesville, May 18, and June 12, 1905. 



O. E. J. 

 Elk : Dent's Run, July 19, 1904. O. E. J. 



Erie : Presque Isle, May 8-9, September 20-22, 



1906. O. E. J. 



Fayette : Ohio Pyle, July 10, 1908, June 14, 1908, 



May 30-31, 1908. O. E. J. 

 Indiana : Bank of Cush-Cushing Creek, near Cherry 



Tree, July 11, 1908. 

 Lawrence : New Castle, 1906. Miss Susan Gageby. 



McKean : ^^'estbrook Swamp, Bradford, June 2, 



1896, Bradford, June 9, 1896, West Branch 



Swamp, Bradford, June 21, 1896. D. A. 



B.; Larabee, July 21, 1904. O. E. J. 

 Mercer : Houston Junction, July 12. 1902. J. A. S.; 



Half-Moon Swamp, June 12, 1906. 



O. E. J. 



Somerset : Keystone, October 9, 1904. O. E. J. 



AVestmoreland: Between Ligonier and Donegal, June 23, 

 1904, "Rachelwood," slope of Laurel Hill 

 Mts., near New Florence, September 8-11. 



1907. O. E. J. 



5a. Polytrichum commune variety uliginosum Huebener. 



In this variety the stems are less strong and rigid than in 

 the species, and the leaves in the dry specimens are wide- 

 spreading to recurved. It is rather rare in the eastern part 

 of the United States. 



