Josselyn Botanical Society 



Report of the Committee on Bryophytes. 



The Committee on Bryophytes begs leave to submit the 

 following report : 



For various reasons there has been but little material re- 

 lating to the Bryophytes of Maine published during the past 

 year. The following papers have appeared since the last 

 report, although certain of the species there recorded were 

 included in the report for last year. 



E. B. Chamberlain : Catharincra Macmillani. Rhod. 9: 

 98. A complete description and plate of the species from 

 material collected by Miss Alice E. Crockett, in Camden, Me. 



J. F. Collins : Mosses from Aroostook County. Rhod. 

 10: 37. Notes, with distribution, upon a collection of four 

 mosses, one hepatic, and one sphagnum made by Prof, and 

 Mrs. Fernald at Crystal, Maine. 



J. F. Collins : Preliminary Lists of New England Plants — 

 XIX. Addenda. Rhod. 10: 71. Contains notes upon cer- 

 tain species of Polytrichacea already reported from Maine. 



A. E. Crockett : Catharincea crispa in Maine. Bryol. 

 10: 74. 



E. M. Dunham : Polytrtchum gracile in Maine. Bryol. 

 10: 75. Both these papers merely repeat records already 

 reported in "Rhodora." 



E. B. Chamberlain: Offerings. Bryol. 10: 76; and 

 n : 75- 



A. E. Crockett: Offerings. Bryol. 11: 17. 



These papers merely offer species collected in Maine, to 

 be distributed to the members of the Sullivant Moss Society. 



It is with much regret that the committee announces 

 the death of one of its members during the past year. Mrs. 

 M. E. Stevens, of Cambridge, Mass., had been a member of 

 the Josselyn Botanical Society almost from the first, and for 



