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of independent collection. Many of the statements of distribution, principally 
the negative ones, are too sweeping, as based upon a too limited field experience, 
and are contradicted by my own observations. To note only a few cases that 
have struck my attention: 
Desmatodon latifolius is said (page 455) to appear to be quite absent from 
southwest and south Iceland. Yet I found it nicely fruiting on the lava-field 
at Hafnarfjordhur. 
Tortula mucronifolia (page 456) is recorded only from Vestmannaey 3 , but 
I have two specimens collected at Hafnarfjordhur and Isafjordhur. There is 
no reason why this species should not be expected at least as far north as T. 
subulata, though I also found it less common. 
Dissodon splachnoides (page 467) is said to be absent or very rare in the 
southwestern and southern part. But I found it growing nicely in a boggy 
place at the base of Ingolfsfjall, near the bridge over the Olfusa in the southern 
lowland. 
Meesea Iriguetra (page 492) is recorded as found only sterile. I found the 
plant with capsules, not far from Reykjavik. 
Glacier-rivers (page 548) are said to be entirely devoid of bryophyte vege- 
tation, which may be largely true. Yet I noticed in the Olfusa a short distance 
below the bridge, that a fish-net had brought up a good deal of Fonlmalis, the 
presence of which one would not otherwise have suspected. 
Pohlia polymorpha (pages 640, 643) is, on the basis of a single collection, 
recorded only from the “Mountain Region” (alt. 300-600 m.); but my own two 
localities, Hafnarfjordhur and Lagafell, are lowland. Probably all or nearly 
all of the Iceland mosses of higher altitudes may be found descending to near 
the sea-level, though the lowland ones may not be expected to ascend in any- 
thing like the same proportion. 
The illustrations are good and suggest the possibility of a considerably 
extended use of the camera in moss-study. 
A. LeRoy Andrews 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
ANNUAL REPORTS— SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY— 1918 
Report of the President 
The Armistice has lifted a load of care and trouble from a long-suffering 
world, and we are beginning to get reprints and publications from Central Europe 
which tell us what our old “ friendly enemies ” have been doing. They, too, 
have had difficulty in learning about our activities, for the Botanisches Central- 
blatt is giving abstracts of publications dating back to 1914-1916. The gift of 
3 There is no singular Vestmannaey, but only the plural Vestmannaeyjar (a small group of 
islands just south of the Iceland coast). Hesselbo’s collections were evidently made upon the 
larger inhabited island, whose name is Helmaey. Generally speaking the Icelandic names in 
this work are identifiable, but in a Danish work of the sort one expects them to be correct. 
