4 PREFACE 



given in the body of the text. Most of the data from the Bronx 

 northward have been obtained from the collections of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



The author hopes that collectors and others who have or 

 acquire additional information concerning the moss flora of 

 New York City and vicinity will communicate it to him in order 

 to have all available facts collated for scientific record and use. 



In many ways it would have been preferable to have a work 

 of this kind published and distributed by some one of the local 

 scientific societies, but as insufficient funds were reported avail- 

 able the author has undertaken both the labor and expense of 

 this issue. 



The author knows very little about the Sphagna and the list 

 of that genus is frankly a compilation. 



Curtis High School, Staten Island, N. Y., Oct. 1916. 



