are so abundant and complete as to make it advisable to consider many of these 

 southern modifications as varieties rather than species. 



1 expected to find many forms of Bruchia, Pleuridium and Dicranella, but 

 not one was found in fruit except D. heteromalla Fitzgeraldii (R. C.) Grout. 



Where the sand is rather moist and contains some vegetable matter or lime 

 Thuidium microphyllum (Sw.) Best, and its var. Ravenellii S. & L. are very 

 abundant, also several species of Bryum including the pretty, easily recognized 

 B. coronatum. Funarias are not rare, but F. flavicans Mx. seems as frequent as 

 F. hygrometrica and its common variety patula B. & S. Macromitrium rhabdo- 

 carpum Mitt, grows on shade trees, reminding one of Orthotrichum or Drummondia. 



Around the bases of trees in rather moist sandy woods is an exceeding abun- 

 dance of Octohlepharum albidum, Leucobryum sediforme and Plagioihecium micans 

 (Sw.) Paris. This is equal in variability and richness of forms to any of the 

 Drepanocladi (Harpidia). It is found on logs, roots and moist soil. In dry 

 places it is in thin mats of short dense-leaved seems and branches; in wet places 

 it becomes long and lax and slender. After a few days one gets so that any" 

 small yellow-green moss with Hypnum facies is rejected as only another micans. 

 Eurhyuchium serfulatum (Hedw.) Kindb. a much larger moss, but of a similar 

 color and a Plagiothecium habit is also frequent. In such localities there is &ure 

 to be a great abundance of Raphidostegium ,adnatum (Mx.) B. & S. on the lower 

 parts of tree trunks. This is easily recognized by its Pylaisia-like appearance. 

 R. Kegelianum (C. M.) R. & C. var Floridanum R. & C. is to be found in such 

 places, but I missed it, though both Mr. Rapp and Mr. Hood have collected it. 



Here also the tawny green masses of Syrrhopodon floridanus SuUiv. are 

 frequent, resembling Tortella tortuosa, but rather darker in color and fruiting 

 more frequently. Occasionally on dead logs and stumps is found the much 

 smaller 5. Texanus Sulliv. with its frequently gemmiferous leaves. " 



Here and elsewhere one notices the absence of Mniums. The large slender 

 Rhkogonium spiniforme (L.) Bruch, usually sterile, being almost the only one of 

 the Mnieae I saw. It was growing on black, shaded, wet soil, a typical Mnium 

 habitat, but is more frequent on palmettoes according to Mr. Hood. Leptothecd 

 Wrightii Sulliv. growing on wood also occurs, but I did not collect it. Its cap- 

 sules look like those of a very large Thelia. 



But it is the deep shaded cypress swamps that delight the heart of a bryolo- 

 gist. Here the mosses grow on the damp trees logs and stumps, in a profusion 

 almost equal to that of the northern mountains, but are much less profuse on 

 the soil. But while the mosses seem as abundant, the number of species is surely 

 much smaller as a rule. I had heard so much about snakes, particularly the water 

 moccasin, that at first I kept a sharp lookout around and about, for they fre- 

 quently climb trees, but hogs had been turned out to run wild by the settlers and 

 they had pretty nearly exterminated the snakes. The hogs were not razor backs 

 either, but civilized porkers such as you might see in a New England barn yard, 

 or at least such was the case with a sow and three day old litter I scared out of a 

 nest under the banks of the St. John's River. 



It was rather early and cool for mosquitoes, but there were numerous large 



