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of Ulota phyllantha, the first reported, collected by Thomas Howell, in Oregon, 

 only to find them ruined by a fungus which had made the peristome imperfect. 



On p. 103, Vol. 14 of the Bryologist, 191 i, Mrs. Britton has published a 

 list of mosses that have been reported with fungi on the capsules. 



206 Windsor Road, Waban, Mass. 



EXTRACTS FROM RECENT REPORTS OF THE "MOSS 

 EXCHANGE CLUB" 



O. E. Jennings 



Mr. P. G. M. Rhodes recently sent us a copy of the Twenty-first Annual 

 Report of the Moss Exchange Club (British Isles) together with a page from the 

 Twentieth Annual Report, noting in the accompanying letter that "they contain 

 some interesting notes, chiefly by Mr. Dixon, on American plants. I thought 

 that perhaps you might care to reproduce some of these in the Bryologist. 

 You will see that Mr. Ingham and I have described a new variety to cover the 

 plants formerly known as var. subsphaerocarpon [Hypnum palustre var. suh- 

 sphaerocarpon B. & S.J. I have sent a co-type specimen of this to Mr. Kaiser for 

 the S. M. S. Herbarium." 



The above quotation is from a letter dated May 6, 1916, and as a bit of 

 personal news, interesting to those of us who may be wondering how the war is 

 afifecting our brother bryological students of various nationality on the other side 

 of the Atlantic, we know our friend will pardon us for quoting further from his 

 letter: "I am now on an exemption till July 31 and have been rejected for field- 

 service owing to eye-sight being defective; but I may then be required for garrison 

 duty such as the Army Ordnance Corps. However it is more Hkely that I shall 

 be kept where I am." 



Mr. Rhodes has checked off, in the reports which he sent, the entries relating 

 to American material. This material has been examined by various members of 

 the Moss Exchange Club and their notes are signed with initials only, as follows: 

 C. H. 5.— Rev. C. H. Binstead; C. A. C— Mr. C. A. Cheetham; H. N. D.—Mr. 

 H. N. Dixon; W. I.— Mr. W. Ingham; H. W. L.— Rev. Canon H. W. Lett; W. 

 E. iV.— Mr. W. E. Nicholson; P. G. M. R.—Mr. P. G. M. Rhodes; C. H. I^.— Rev. 

 C. H. Waddell. The entries follow in order, as checked off: 



Twentieth Annual Report (19 15), p. 135 — 



" Amblystegium orthocladon P. Beauv., pierres dans cascade, Mt. St. Hilaire, 

 Quebec, Canada, July /lo, H. Dupret, cam. P. G. M. R., det. Cardot.' Cardot est 

 tres aftirmatif, mais Renauld preferait I'appeler A. irriguum,' H. Dupret. 'I 

 should incline to Renauld's opinion, strongly, that this is A. irriguum, not A. 

 orthocladon (which is but a form of A. varium according to most authors.) The 

 stout nerve and the basal cells are to me conclusive. The entire margin is in 

 favour of orthocladon, if anything, but this is the only character I can find on that 

 side, and certainly I should say does not outweigh the other.' H. N. D. 'I have 

 communicated Mr. Dixon's note to Prof. Dupret, who informs me that Dr. Best 

 has provisionally named this plant var. perplexum, presumably of A. irriguum.' 

 P. G. M. R. 



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