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The following list of the Musci and Hepaticee is made up from the 
herbarium of the Peabody Academy of Science, chiefly collected by 
the writer in 1877. Unfortunately, there are few persons in this 
vicinity interested in the lower orders of plants, hence the data from 
which to make up a general county list are meagre. Itis not possible 
that this enumeration should be nearly complete, as many species, 
perhaps even common ones, may not have been collected, but it very 
well represents the general character of the Muscinee of the region, 
and will be found to contain many rare and interesting species. The 
collection was examined, and the species determined by Mr. Coe F. 
Austin of New Jersey, well known as an authority upon these plants, 
and whose unexpected death, during the past season, is universally 
regretted by botanists. 
MUSCI. 
(Mosses.) 
Suborder SPHAGNACEZ. 
Sphagnum acutifolium, Ehrh. 
Chebacco (in fruit, May 3, 1877). 
Var. purpureum. 
Boxford (Arthur R. Stone). 
Var. intermedium. 
Danvers (J. H. Sears). 
Sphagnum cuspidatum, Lhrh. 
Middleton, Peabody, North Andover, Amesbury. Submerged. 
Var. Torreyanum. 
Middleton, North Andover. 
Var. recurvum. 
Magnolia swamp, Gloucester. 
Sphagnum subsecundum, Nees. 
Boxford. 
Sphagnum palustre, Zhrh. (S. cymbifolium, Dill.) 
Magnolia swamp, Gloucester. A very large species. 
Var. squarrulosum, 
Swampscott. 
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