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List, mentioned above, and in the National Herbarium there are specimens 
collected at Rosslyn, Va. , by Prof. F. V. Coville in 1889. This station is but 
a short distance from Plummer’s Island. There is also a packet in the 
National Museum labelled Riccia lutescens. collected by Mr. Rudolph Oldberg 
in Rock Creek Park, but from a hasty examination of the specimens, which 
are scanty and broken, appear to be rather some form of R. Sullivantii . 
Notes on Two Mosses from Virginia. 
To those interested in the ranges of North American mosses, the follow- 
ing stations, which have recently come to my notice, may be of value. Both 
mosses were collected by Mr. W. R. Maxon, in Fairfax Co , Virginia, oppo- 
site Cabin John, Maryland, about six miles above Washington. Specimens 
are in the National Herbarium and in my own collection. 
Mnium stellar e Reich. The only report of this species from this vicinity, 
which has come to my knowledge, is that in Ward’s “Flora of Washington 
and Vicinity,” where no data whatsoever are given. The basis of this report 
is probably two specimens in the National Museum, collected by Mr. Rudolph 
Oldberg, at “Rock Creek, near Washington,” since the bryophytes of Mr. 
Ward's Flora were practically reprinted from a list prepared by Mr. Oldberg 
for the “ Flora Columbiana.” The moss is northern in its general range, the 
nearest stations of which I have record being Philadelphia and Chester, 
Pennsylvania, reported by Dr. Small in the “ Catalogue of the Bryophyta 
and Pteridophyta Found in Pennsylvania.” The Washington stations may 
represent the extreme southern range in the costal plain. 
Anomodon minor ( Beauv.) Fuern. This species is not listed in Ward’s 
Flora, and I have not succeeded in finding any reports of its occurrence in 
this vicinity. In the National Herbarium, however, there is a specimen from 
Rock Creek Park, collected in 1892 by Prof. J. M. Holzinger. Lesquereux 
and James in the Manual remark, “in the Middle States, common.” Its 
range seems to be much more extensive, since in my own herbarium there 
are specimens from Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio and Minne- 
sota, while in the National Herbarium there are also specimens from Ottawa 
and Ontario, Canada; Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Virginia. 
Washington, D. C. 
NOTES ON LUZON MOSSES. 
R. S. Williams. 
In walking about Manila one is rather surprised at the scarcity of mosses. 
The walls of the old city are well covered in places with numerous shrubs, 
herbs, grasses and some ferns, yet I have only observed a single species of 
moss on either walls or tree trunks, while the ground everywhere seems abso- 
lutely free of them. This one moss is apparently a small Barbula that 
rarely fruits. 
Across Manila Bay, along the Lamao river, and up that stream to the 
summit of Mt. Mariveles, a region I spent some months in, a fairly good col- 
lecting ground for these plants may be found. Bushes and small trees grow 
