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The Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol.XIII, No. 3, 
NOTES ON OHIO MOSSES.* 
Clara Gould Mark. 
Bryoziphium norvegicum (Bridel) Mitten. This moss was 
collected in Ohio as long ago as 1849 by Lesquereux, somewhere 
in the Lancaster region. In the 1863 edition of Gray’s manual 
Sullivant says of it: “Fruit unknown. Pendent on the per¬ 
pendicular faces of sandstone rocks, six miles south of Lancaster, 
Fairfield County, Ohio. The only other certain habitat recorded 
for this very interesting Moss is Iceland. ” As Sullivant himself 
was not a collector, he doubtless referred to the locality in which 
Lesquereux had collected the moss. Since that time this species 
has been collected in several other places in the United States, the 
only place where it has been found fruiting being the Dells of the 
Wisconsin, where at two different times a limited number of 
capsules was collected. The only specimen that has been in the 
State Herbarium was collected by Miss Riddle at Christmas 
Rocks in 1899. This moss is not uncommon on the vertical 
cliffs of the Black Hand sandstone in the Hocking Valley, and 
usually grows on the walls of the passages made by the enlarged 
joints in the sandstone, particularly where there are currents of 
cold air passing through these openings. The plants are usually 
small and sparsely scattered over the walls, often associated with 
other mosses. In one place, however, it has been recently found 
growing luxuriantly and the individual plants often reach a length 
of an inch and a half. It is rather interesting to note that this 
locality is six miles south of Lancaster. Perhaps it is the one 
referred to by Sullivant. 
Buxbaumia aphylla Haller. A single specimen in the State 
Herbarium, collected in Lake County, in 1879, by Mr. II. C. 
Bearclslee, is labeled “The first for Ohio. ” So far as there is any 
record here this is its only occurrence in the State previous to the 
fall of 1911. Sullivant gives its range as “New England and New 
York; rare,” and Lesquereux and James give it “On the ground, 
especially of granite regions and mountains; White Mountains; 
Cascade Mountains, etc.,” In the fall of 1911 three specimens 
were found along the side of a wood road near Jacob’s Ladder, 
and in the spring and fall of 1912 numerous specimens were col¬ 
lected in the same locality. This new station for the species is 
nearly one hundred and fifty miles farther south than Bcardslee’s 
locality for it in Lake County. An interesting thing about this 
moss is the manner in which all the capsules point in the same 
direction—toward the strongest light. 
* Read at the annual meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science, 
Columbus, Nov. 29, 1912. 
