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the various forms are so different in appearance, under the microscope the 
leaves are identical. The coarse doubly dentate margins, the strong mid- 
rib, and the punctate cells in the lower leaf angles are the same in all. 
Claopodium crispifolium is common on rocks and trees. It is indistin- 
guishable from C. Bolanderi except under the microscope. C. Bolanderi 
is found on rocks, while C. Whippleanum is found on rocks and soil and 
resembles Plagiothecium elegans. 
Dendroalsia abietina is rare. Besides E. stoloniferum three Eurhyn- 
chiums are common, Oreganum, praelongum with its variety Stoke sii, and 
fallax. E.fallax was to be found only at high altitudes. Growing at 
lower altitudes and hidden away about the roots of cedars is to be found a 
large Eurhynchium with variegated copper colored pinnae. One never 
obtained very much of it as it was hard to find. It belonged to the blunt 
leaved division of Eurhynchia. Its capsule was a beautiful chestnut red. 
Plagiothecium undulatum is plentiful in proper locations. On humus 
or rotton logs, and P. denticulatum is common. 
The Heterocladiums, H. heteropteroides and H. procurrens , are high- 
land mosses and are found on rocks. On vertical rocks, where there is 
plenty of water, H. heteropteroides assumes the variety filescens. On flat 
rocks it grows with short pinnae and fruits freely. H. procurrens is easily 
recognized by its complanate leaves and feathery pinnae and at altitudes of 
one thousand feet it becomes the commonest of the rock mosses. 
Amblystegiums are rare in my locality though several are accredited to 
the island. Seattle, Wash. 
NOTES ON THE MOSSES OF WATERVILLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
Annie Lorenz. 
The settlement of Waterville, N. H., lies in the Mad River Valley, at 
1550 ft. altitude, north of Sandwich Dome, with Mt. Osceola (4352 ft.) 
forming the northern end of the valley. Very little collecting appears to 
have been done there. The only specimens seen by the writer are a few in 
the hotel herbarium, collected by Mrs. Helen E. Jelliffe in August, 1896. 
Waterville is a granite-and-drift region, the absence of limestone making 
peculiar gaps in the flora, phanerogamous as well as cryptogamous. The 
most unusual’place in the region is the ravine known as the “V’’ on the 
southern slope of Mt. Tripyramid. It consists of two steep granite slopes, 
meeting at an angle of 90 degrees, and running west by north. The south- 
ern side has a rich cover of Sphagna, various Hypna and Hylocomia, Philo- 
notis, Scapania, and such, all heavily fruited. The best thing there is 
Blindia acuta (Huds.) B. &S. in good fruit. 
The summit of Mt. Osceola is a crumbly trachytic granite, cushioned 
with Polytrichum strictum Banks, with Dicranum fuscescens Turn, and D. 
longifolium Ehrh. on the scrub balsam, although Lophozia gracilis 
(Schleich.) Steph. is really the principal product. Sphagna are abundant, but 
only casually examined by the writer. Andreaea petrophila Ehrh. is com- 
