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to a dense growth of black cherry or silver birch where no one would 
suspect that a cherry pit could have survived the conflagration much less the 
fragile seed of the birch. Then where did this multitude of cherry pits 
come from, when to a certainty no cherry tree had existed in the vicinity for 
a century at least, and how could they in any event have escaped destruc- 
tion in such a furnace as that to which they were necessarily subjected! 
The subject I know has been thrashed out from Aristotle to Huxley 
without reaching a satisfactory solution. Can any of our members advance 
a theory that will aid in solving the problem? 
Very sincerely yours, 
Albert J. Hill. 
REVIEW— THE BRYOPHYTES OF CONNECTICUT. 
By Alexander W. Evans and George E. Nichols, State Geolegical and 
Natural History Survey, Bulletin No. II. 
It would be difficult to overestimate the value of j this contribution to 
Bryology. Not only is it a perfect model of what such a work should be, but 
its comprehensiveness makes it so nearly a manual that it will be of great 
service to students. Dr. Grout having already reviewed the work 1 it is 
merely my intention to dwell upon some parts of it, that is the first three 
orders comprising thehepatics: the Marchantiales, the Jungermanniales, the 
Anthocerotales. The dozen pages filled with the general characteristics of 
the Bryophytes and the general characteristics of these three groups are of 
utmost value to students. I hope many will obtain this Report 2 and study 
these pages. There is a fine chapter devoted to the distribution of the 
Bryophytes in the State according to environment to which I also call the 
student’s attention. This is followed by another chapter on their economic 
value and then comes the catalogue in which the one hundred and seven 
species of hepatics fill thirty-eight of the one hundred and thirty-nine pages 
and give us the last word in nomenclature. 
Dr. Howe in his review of the Report in Torreya 3 says: “ The Bryo~ 
phytes of Cannecticut will prove almost as useful in New York and indeed 
along the whole North Atlantic seaboard as it will in Connecticut.” 
Caroline Coventry Haynes. 
SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY NOTES. 
Sullivant Moss Society Members and Students of the Hepatics. 
Dr. George H. Conklin, 1204 Tower Ave., Superior, Wisconsin, will now 
take charge of our Herbarium and look after the varied interests of the 
Hepatic Department. Specimens and inquiries may be addressed to him. 
I am sincere in saying that I regret to be obliged to give up, temporarily, 
this work. It has been such a pleasure to see it grow ; the herbarium, for one 
thing, is eleven times larger, and it is good to know of the keen interest of a 
number of the members. There are already long lists of species from several 
1. The Bryologist, Vol. XII: 2. 1909. 
2 No. II, thirty cents, George S. Godard, State Librarian, Hartford, Conn, 
3. Torreya Vol, IX: 2, 1909. 
