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mosses to Bridel. What came to me seemed to be the refuse of some col- 

 lection which Wilson had seen." "Emery was a young farmer who went 

 from here to Canada. I had asked him to get for me any mosses he might see 

 on trees. After some years he came back for a short stay, and gave me a 

 small tuft of moss which he told me he had gathered in remembrance of my 

 request. It was Meteoriujn nigrescens, and nothing beside it. As he was 

 quite ignorant of mosses, and as far as I know had been nowhere else, I sup- 

 posed it was as he said. I do not find this specimen now among my numer- 

 ous specimens from Mexico, and the West Indian Islands. I have 

 probably cast it out, but shall refind it among some heaps of surplus speci- 

 mens of these tiresome mosses." 



In the case of the Todd label, it might easily have been misplaced in 

 handling and belong with some other species, but the Emery specimens are 

 only explainable on the ground that it was a wrong determination, which 

 Mitten rejected on later consideration, and that some species of Leucodon 

 or Anomodon may have been mistaken for Meteoriuui. It is unfortunate 

 that the specimens are lost, as thus far this species has not been collected 

 by anyone else except in Florida. 



N. Y. Botanical Garden, N. Y. City. 



Hypnum capillifolium Baileyi Ren. n. var. 

 "Well characterized specimen with its rather longly excurrent nerve. 

 This variety differs from the type by its less robust habit, the short leaves 

 broadly ovate at base, rapidly tapering to a rather short acumen ; areolation 

 rather lax with short cells, parenchymatous just above the base, sub-hexa- 

 gonal or rhombic in the middle and near the apex." 



"Teste F. Renault in litt. March 27th, 1903." 

 Communicated by Dr. John W. Bailey, Seattle, Washington. 

 This will be issued in the next fascicle of Dr. Grout's Musci Pleuro- 

 carpi. 



ADDITIONAL HOSSES OF THE UPPER YUKON RIVER. 



By R S. Williams. 



In the summer of 1902, Prof, John Macoun made a collection of mosses, 

 as well as other plants, in the vicinity of Skagway, Alaska and Dawson, 

 Yukon Terr , this being much the same ground as that which I collected over 

 some three years earlier. There are a good inany sterile specimens in the 

 lot, but out of some 125 species that have been determined, the following are 

 not in my list, published in Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, Vol. II. no. 6 : 



Dicranella cerviculaia Schimp. (246) Hunker Cr. , July 6, in fine fruit. 



Ditrichum tenuifolium (Schrad.) Lindb. (17 and 77) Hunker Cr., July 

 26, and Bonanza Cr., Aug. 11. 



Barbula Montana (Mitt.) Jaeg. (119). In compact sterile tufts on 

 rock. West Dawson and Hunker Cr. 



