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over thirty-six square inches and bore nearly 1,000 capsules. The 

 cavity seems to have been lined with a tough elastic fungoid 

 growth, on the moist surface of which the moss grew. — D. A. 

 Burnett, Bradford, Pa. 



During the past four years, when collecting in Northern Ohio, 

 the writer happened to find several small patches of the above 

 rare moss. On one occasion the tree on which it grew was alive 

 and overhanging the bottom of a creek at about a height of four 

 feet. On another occasion it grew on a dead upright birch. 

 There was in this tree at a height of about four feet above the 

 ground a small cavity, but large enough to furnish room for a 

 specimen of Viola rotundifolia, which nearly filled it and was in a 

 thriving condition. It was on the border of this hollow knot that 

 a small patch of Anacamptodon was seen growing. — E. CI as son, 

 Cleveland, Ohio. 



I found the Anacamptodon twice this past summer — at Fran- 

 conia Notch, near Profile Lake, N. H., August 19, and in Smug- 

 gler's Notch, Mt. Mansfield, Vt., July 5th; both were on old yel- 

 low birches and both were in good fruit. The Franconia Notch 

 specimen was lining the lower part of a decaying hole in the birch, 

 and its dark green foliage and curious fruit caught the eye at 

 once. — Dr. George G. Kennedy, Readville, Mass. 



A few years ago, on a rainy March day. as I was making my 

 rounds, I chanced to see a moss about a rotten knot hole on a sour 

 gum ( Nyssa), and I scraped a liberal quantity from the bark, for 

 it was something " new." Its color was what attracted my at- 

 tention, a peculiar shade of bluish-green very different from that 

 of most mosses. It proved to be Anacamptodon splachnoides, the 

 first I had seen. — George N. Best, M. D., Rosemont, N. J. 



NEW AMERICAN MOSSES. 



From a Revision of the Claopodiums by Dr. G. N. Best. Bull. 

 Torr. Bot. Club. 24 : 427. 1897. 



Claopodium Bolanderi Best. A less developed form of C. 

 crispifolium (Hook.)R. & C, distinguished by its smaller size, 

 pluripapillate leaf -cells, shorter ( 1 ^-2cm.) seta, short broadly 

 oval capsule and imperfect cilia. The leaves are broadly ovate- 

 lanceolate with the margins not rugose. From Alaska to Califor- 

 nia, eastward to Idaho. 



From a Preliminary Revision of the N. Am. Isotheciacese by 

 A. J. Grout. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 23 : 223. 1896. 



Entodon seductrix lanceolatus Grout Stem leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute; branch leaves broadly lanceolate, tapering grad- 



