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years by the Corning Iron Company of Albany. " Dr. Heinrich Ries has a paper 

 on "Uses of Peat and its Occurrence in New York" in the 21st Report of the 

 State Geologist for 1901 (reprinted from the N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 55: r53-r90. 

 1903). He gives on pages r83-r84 several localities for peat in Washington and 

 Warren counties. The paper also records that, "Mr. F. W. Wait, of Glen Falls, 

 states that some 20 years ago the Albany Peat Works established a plant, and 

 operated it for some years in the swamp between Glens Falls and French Moun- 

 tain, on the road leading to Lake George. Work was abandoned after a time, 

 however. 



"About 10 years before this, Judge E. H. Rosecrans produced peat from 

 what is known as Rosecrans swamp, northeast of Glens Falls, but this likewise 

 was discontinued." 



During the recent World War, sphagnum was used to a vast extent in the 

 place of absorbent cotton in surgical dressings and was superior to the cotton. 

 Mr. Geo. E. Nichols in The Bryologist for July, 1918, states that in eastern 

 United States, Sphagnum papillosum was regarded the best species; S. palustre, 

 next; also useful, 5. imhricatum and 5. magellanicum, "where these appear suffi- 

 ciently luxuriant." 



Mr. William W. Mather in Geology of New York, page 81, speaks of Cal- 

 careous Tufa occurring "near Whitehall, as a deposit from springs" and in Sara- 

 toga county, "on the banks of the Hudson between Glens and Bakers falls. The 

 most beautiful incrusted moss was obtained from this locality. It is said to 

 abound at Saratoga. " Calcareous tufa in this region is formed by water, carry- 

 ing bicarbonate of lime in solution, trickling over cushions of Gymnostomum and 

 Cratoneuron filicinum. The mosses become completely incrusted below, but go 

 on growing at the apex of the stem, as the older parts of the plants die. Speci- 

 mens of tufa formed on Cratoneuron filicinum was collected along the banks of 

 Pond Brook, east of W. Fort Ann P. O., October 31, 19 14. 



An attempt, in the list of species, is made to mention the northernmost 

 station first. The following abbreviations are used: 



CH, Columbia Herbarium. 



GH, N. Y. Botanical Garden Herbarium. 



JH, Jelliffe Herbarium. 



SH, N. Y. State Herbarium. 



List of Species 



I. Sphagnum magellanicum Brid. This is apparently not an uncommon species, 

 particularly in upland cold bogs and about mountain ponds. Deter- 

 mined by Dr. A. L. Andrews, who says "some of the specimens" from 

 W. Fort Ann "of this species are decidedly in the direction of what 

 Warnstorf calls S. subbicolor." Dr. C. Warnstorf in 1902 referred 

 several specimens to Sphagnum subbicolor Hampe= Sph. centrale C. 

 Jens. = Sph. intermedium Russ. ; several other plants in the same sending 

 he referred to Sphagnum, medium Limpr. and a few plants to Sphagnum 

 medium, var laeve, forma purpurascens (Russ.) Warnst, 



