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greatly indebted to Dr. G. N. Best for assistance in determining some of the 
most difficult specimens. In fact Dr. Best facetiously told me at one time 
that if there were more specimens in Vermont like those 1 had been sending 
him, I would better move to some other state. 
Buxbaumia indusiata Brid. Willoughby. Miss Annie Lorenz. Det. 
Mrs. Britton. 
Polytrichum Smithiae Grout, Bryologist, May, 1903. Mt. Mansfield. 
Dicranodontium longirostre (W. &. M.) B. & S. Willoughby. Two 
stations. Miss Annie Lorenz. 
Dicranum Bonjeani DeNot. Old roofs, Newfane; swamp, Charlotte, 
Pringle. 
Ditrichum homomallum (Hedw. ) Hampe var. Det. Dr. Best. Clefts in 
rocks in cool ravine, Newfane. 
Barbula gracilis (Schleich.) Schwaegr. Crevices of limestone rocks, 
Brattleboro. Frost. Fide L. & J. Manual, p. 127. 
Tortula ruralis (L.) Ehrh. Dry limestone rocks at base of cliffs, No. 
Pownal, Vt. A. LeRoy Andrews. Determined as Tortula montana by Dr. 
Best, but the leaf cells are fully 0.013 mm. in the upper portion so that it 
seems almost certain that the plants are depauperate specimens of the 
polymorphous T. ruralis. 
Grimmia ambigua Sulliv. Frost’s G. Donii var. sudetica proves to be 
almost typical G. ambigua. 
G. apocarpa gracilis (Schleich.) Web. & Mohr. Cliffs, Glebe Mt., New- 
fane. 
G. apocarpa rivularis (Brid. ) Web. & Mohr. Common. 
G. conferta Funck. var. Limestone ledges, Stratton. 
G. conferta obtusifolia Schimp. Dry limestone cliffs, Snake Mt. 
G. Pennsylvania Schwaegr. Drydedges, Jamaica. 
G. Pennsylvanica Bestii n. var. Growing in short, wide, loose tufts on 
stone in walls and on ledges in open fields. The stems are less than 5 mm. 
high ; the leaves are shorter with shorter hair points and frequently with 
lamina of a single layer throughout. The lower leaf cells are characteris- 
tically sinuose as in the species. The leaves bear on the back numerous 
bodies which look like propagula, but which Mrs. Britton and Dr. Howe 
believe to be a species of Alga. This form is very common in Newfane and 
the surrounding towns, and for several years I have been attempting to 
locate it. Very likely it will prove to be a good species and if so it should 
be called G. Bestii. 
Orthotrichum obtusifolium Schrad. On the bark of maple and pear 
trees, Newfane. 
O. Schimperi Hamm. On maple trees, Brandon. Miss Harriet 
Wheeler. 
O. speciosum Nees. Frequent on fruit trees, Newfane. 
Bryum capillare L. On rocks, Brattleboro, Frost; Guilford, Mrs. J. B. 
Clapp. 
Amblystegium Juratzkanum Schimp. In an old cellar hole. Alt. 1,600 
