PLANTS OF^NORTH ELBA 



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Neckera pennata Hedw. 

 Trunks of trees. Very common. This is as abundant as any moss in 

 the region, growing on and clinging to the bark of living trees, its long 

 graceful shoots often nearly encircling the trunks and the older stems 

 hanging in thick cushions and occupying the trunk up to the lowest 

 branches. It fruits abundantly and its capsules, pendent beneath the 

 stems, are readily distinguished by their orange colored teeth. It is fre- 

 quently intermingled with the very common liverwort of the region, 

 Pore I la platyphylla. Mrs Britton. 



Neckera oligocarpa B. & S. 



Underside of overhanging rocks and crevices of huge boulders. Mt Jo. 

 Mrs Britton. 



Homalia Jamesii Schimp. 



Rocks. Vicinity of Lake Placid where its trailing stems are frequently 

 a foot long and where it forms dense flat glossy sheets. It differs very 

 slightly from the European H. trichomanoides with which some authors 

 consider it identical. Mrs Britton. Rocky hill and Indian pass. 



Leucodon julaceus Sull. 



Trunks of trees. Rare and small. Vicinity of Lake Placid and near 

 John Brown's grave. This species is abundant in the town of Keene and 

 it is remarkable that it should be so scarce in North Elba, specially as 

 we usually find it on the same trees with Neckera pennata and forming 

 • cushions as large and dense as that species. Mrs Britton. 



Anacamptodon splachnoides Brid. 



Trunks of trees in dense woods. Vicinity of Lake Placid and near 

 Adirondack lodge. This is a small and slender species but somewhat 

 conspicuous by its dark bluish green color and its numerous urn-shaped 

 apsules with reflexed teeth. It grows chiefly around or in knot holes 

 ept moist by standing water, but it has been found around scars of old 

 lazes on trees and in one station at the base of Mt Whiteface on some 

 old wet and crumbling Polyporus. Mrs Britton. 



Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp. 



Around the base of trees. Near Whiteface inn. Mrs Britton. Nevv- 

 an farm. 



