VOLUME XVII 
NUMBER 6 
NOVEMBER 1914 
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THE BRYOLOG1ST 
JOURNAL OF THE 
SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY 
Conducted and Published for the Society by 
O. E. JENNINGS, Ph.D., Editor-m-Chief 
Associate Editors 
ABEL JOEL GROUT, Ph.D. 
GEORGE N. BEST, M. D. JOHN M. HOLZINGER, M. S. 
ALEXANDER W. EVANS, Ph.D. LINCOLN W. RIDDLE, Ph.D. 
and the 
Advisory Board Officers of the Society 
CONTENTS 
North American Species of the Genus Ramalina — Part VIII 
R. Heber Howe , Jr. .81 
Notes on North American Hepaticae — V Alexander W. Evans 87 
A New Species of Blastenia H. E. Hasse 92 
Further Observations on the Texan Oxymitra (Tessalina) 
Marshall A . Howe 92 
Notes on the Survival of Extreme Drought by Certain Mosses 
F. L. Pickett 94 
Sulllivant Moss Society Notes — 96 
Notice of Election of Sullivant Moss Society 
Officers for 1915 96 
A Correction 96 
Exchange Department 96 
“ Entered as second-class matter August 2 I st, 1 9 1 3. at the Post Office at Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 18 79.” 
Copyright, 1 9 I 4, by Edward B. Chamberlain 
The September number of THE BRYOLOGIST was published October 14,1914. 
PRESS OF THE INTELLIGENCER PRINTING HOUSE, LANCASTER, PA. 
