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NOTICE OF ELECTION OF SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY OFFICERS 



FOR 1914 



Members are requested to send ballots at once to Mrs. Eva B. Gadsby, 

 615 East Chelten Ave., Germantown, Penna., Judge of Elections. Balloting 

 closes November 30th, 1913. 



For President — Dr. A. W. Evans, New Haven, Conn. 



For Vice-president — Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



For Secretary-Treasurer — Mr. Edward B. Chamberlain, New York City. 



Having recently engaged to contribute the treatment of the family Ricciaceae 

 to the "North American Flora," I should be glad to receive for naming any 

 material of this family that may be in possession of members of the Sullivant Moss 

 Society or any that they may acquire during the coming year. For accurate 

 determinations, specimens with mature spores are desirable, though not always 

 necessary. Material preserved in fluids, or, better still, living material, is the 

 most satisfactory for study, but ordinary dried herbarium specimens will be 

 gratefully received. Most of the common kinds that grow on roadside banks, 

 on compact soil beside paths or in open fields, or at the foot of sunny ledges, have 

 a way of folding up and becoming very inconspicuous in dry weather, but just 

 after a rain they commonly stand out in a way to catch the eye of any one who 

 is looking for them. Except in a few localities the Riccias of North America 

 have been very generally ignored or overlooked by collectors, and it is felt that 

 a little additional attention to this genus on the part of American field-workers 

 would yield results that would be wholly worth while. 



New York Botanical Garden, Marshall A. Howe. 



Bronx Park, New York City. 



EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT 



Offerings — To Members Only, for Stamped and self-addressed Envelope. 



Mr. Edward B. Chamberlain, 18 West 89th St., New York City —Oriho- 

 trichum rupestre Schleich., c. fr., and Leptodon Smithii W. & M., St., collected 

 in Italy, by Sig. E. Corti. 



Dr. A. C. Herre, R. F. D. No. i, Everson, Washington. — Calicium hyper- 

 ellum Ach. 



Rev. C. H. Demetrio, Emma, Lafayette Co., Missouri — Gr aphis so phis- 

 ticascens Nyl. and Fontinalis Missourica R. & C. 



Miss Helen C. Greenwood, 5 Benefit Terrace, Worcester, Mass. — Riccio- 

 carpus natans (L.) Corda, collected in Worcester, Mass. 



Mr. C. C. Plitt, 3933 Lowndes Ave., Baltimore, Md. — Dermistocarpon he- 

 paticum (Ach.) Th. Fr. 



Dr. H. E. Hasse, Santa Monica, California. — Arthonia impolita (Ehrh.) 

 Borr., from Catalina Island, Cal., and Dendrographa leucophaea (Tuck.) Dar- 

 bish. 



