Cryptogamic Botany 



ELIZABETH Q. BRITTON, Editor. TT «W "OTn, Ptatflf! Itf. 



Columbia College, New York City. 



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r 'ear Ijf, Kennedy, 



Vi have been having 8 se^r/es Of nasty ( dftnp . 

 cold grey, days , and have be en s v ut up in the house, so I have been 

 busy mount ing up th« J*a«g»r messes, g#ttin$ the 1« skeaceae ready 

 for Dr. "est. J mounting up pterigyj Tanjjriim filiform*, T find a spe- 

 cimen so named frfom -rookline, collected by Ed "/in Faxon, which does 

 not look at all like the Western or European moss so-called, of 

 vv ich 1 enclose a duplicate for your collection. I- also send a bit 

 of Mr, ^axon's specimen, that you amay compare them, if you will. 

 " id 1 tell yu of our last diseo^very ? that Hookers type a t K«w of 

 hi aopodium 1 Hxif oJ_ium proves to bo ^rachy theciuft ref 1 exum, Rtarte 9 

 I have just received, f rom Q« rl in two hits of 3ridtis types of TT . 

 oxyclad on and H. atte.nuatu m ( See the "anual p. 414) and f"r, GbrpHI 

 is at work on them now, trying to fi nd out what they are, I have 

 taken the libertjp of referring to yfl u as a correspondent, one o f 

 my most promising young students, v r. If "'ranklin Colllna, of rown 

 University , Providence, Rhode Id. who is at work on a collection 

 of mo sir, from "aine and on the local flora. 3$!e sent me Anacampto- 

 r hjn ^plachno'des recently, and T ri mmi a r i vu 1 a#g s , which is a good 

 spec!* 9 1 1 think. What genera shall 1 gtft into sh#jae for you ? 

 're you not go ing to help along the good work of untangling some 

 of the muss that T 'indberg, etc. have made for us ? 



Cordially yours, 



