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POLYTRICHUM GRACILE IN HAINE. 
Elizabeth Marie Dunham. 
Among the mosses collected in 
September at Middle Dam, Rangeley 
Lakes, Maine, there was one strange 
Polytrichum which Prof. J. Franklin 
Collins has determined Polytrichum 
gracile Dicks, and he speaks of it as 
a form with low lamellae and wide leaf 
margins. (Fig. a.) This variation is 
noted in fine print after the description 
of the species in Dixon and Jameson’s 
“ Hand-book of British Mosses.” In 
comparison with a specimen (Fig. 
b.) collected by Mrs. Annie Morrill 
Smith in the Adirondack Mts., the 
Maine specimen shows leaf margins 
about three times wider, and the 
lamellae only three cells high instead 
of four or five as in the New York 
specimen. There was only one small 
patch of the moss, growing on the 
ground in a woody swamp. Upon first examination w T ith hand lens, the 
leaves closely resembled Catharinea augustata , although the growth as a 
whole was plainly that of a Polytrichum. It is the first record of its occur- 
rence in Maine, as far as Prof. Collins can learn. Auburndale, Mass. 
SULLIVANT MOSS CHAPTER NOTES. 
Mr. E. B. Chamberlain’s address after June 15 to September 15 will be 
Cumberland Center, Maine. 
Since May 1st the following persons have qualified as Chapter members: 
No. 179. Prof. C. F. Baker. Estacion Central Agronomica, Santiago de las 
Vegas, Cuba. No 180. Mons. I. Theriot, 1 Rue Dicquemare, Havre, France. 
No. 181. Mr. H. N. Dixon, 23 East Park Parade, Northampton, England. 
No. 182. Miss Emily L. Croswell, 20 St. James Avenue, Boston, Mass. 
No. 183. Mr. E. J. Winslow, 523^ West Fourth street, Elmira, New York. 
No. 184. Max Fleischer, Potsdamerstrasse 105 A, Berlin, Germany. No. 185. 
Wilhelm Monkemeyer, Inspector Royal Botanic Gardens, Leipzig, Germany. 
No. 186. Mons. Jules Cardot, Square du Petit Bois. Charleville, Ardennes, 
France. 
