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the state of New Jersey, which included 526 mosses, 161 hepatics and 215 
lichens. This set subsequently came into the possession of the New York 
Botanical Garden as a gift from Ellis A, Apgar, 
Austin’s Herbarium contained many specimens from various parts of 
North America, as he had many friends and correspondents who sent him 
material for study and aided him by specimens for comparison; among the 
most notable of these were Sullivant and Lesquereux, T. P. James, T. C. 
Porter, Francis Wolle, E. A. Rau, H. W. Ravenell, A. P. Garber, Chas. 
Mohr, E. Hall, C. H. Peck, John Macoun and many others too numerous to 
mention. 
^ The Rocky Mountain regions were least known at that time and with 
the exception of a few mosses from Colorado, collected by Hall and Brandegee 
and from New Mexico and Texas by Charles Wright, were poorly represented. 
The mosses of the Pacific States were just beginning to be studied, and 
those from California collected by Dr. H. N. Bolander and Leo Lesquereux 
made known in 1865 by the distribution of the second set of Sullivant’s & 
Lesquereux Musci Boreali-Americanae were well represented in his herbar- 
ium, as well as a few new species from Oregon described by Karl Muller, 
in 1874, and from the Southern States collected by Charles Mohr. 
In 1878 Austin issued a Supplement to his Musci Appalachiani including 
100 specimens, in which we find the range of localities greatly extended to 
include Canada to British Columbia, collected by J. Macoun; New Bruns- 
wick, Dr. J. Fowler; Virginia, Mar5dand and Florida, J. D. Smith; South 
Carolina, Ravenel; Alabama, Mohr, etc. adding 30 new species and many 
Southern ones in Bt'uchia, Fissidens, Calympe 7 'es, Sy 7 ^rhopodon, Schlo- 
theiinia, Clasmatodon, Cryphaea, Fab?^o}iia, Hookeria, Meteoriuin^ Neckei'a, 
Rhizogo 7 iinm and Octoblephai^um. The influence of S. O. Lindberg, whose 
autograph we find on many specimens sent to him by Austin for naming, 
was beginning to be felt in the priority of names, notably in Swartzia for 
Distichiiim. 
The New England states were poorly represented in his collections and 
with the exception of a few mosses from the vicinity of Boston, collected by 
Benjamin D. Greene and T. P. James, and a few from Connecticut by J. A. 
Allen and some of his own collections from the White Mountains figure very 
little in his Exsiccatae. 
In 1875 Karl Muller dedicated the genus A 7 istinia to him for a Cuban 
species, A. tenuinervis (Mitt.), a well deserved honor, for he must always 
rank among the pioneer Bryologists of North America. In estimating 
