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A LIST OF MOSSES FROM SANFORD, FLORIDA 
S. Rapp 
The mosses enumerated in the following list were collected within a radius 
of ten miles «f Sanford, Seminole County, Florida, formerly belonging to Orange 
County. The writer is under great obligations to Mrs. E. G. Britton for deter- 
mining critical specimens and for preparing most of the list. For the deter- 
mination of certain specimens thanks are also due to Dr. Best, Dr. Grout, Prof. 
Holzinger, and Miss Edith A. Warner; and to Dr. A. LeRoy Andrews for deter- 
mining the specimens of Sphagnum and Bryum. 
Sanford is situated on the southern shore of Lake Monroe, a tributary of 
the St. Johns River, and being the entrance of southern Florida is spoken of as 
“The Gate City of South Florida.” The surrounding country is of low eleva- 
tion and abounds in river-swamps and hammocks; the former with oaks, hickory, 
Carpinus, and other trees, the latter with cypress, ashes, maple, and elms. It 
is here in the chinks of the cypress where one finds Fissidens Donnellii, hidden 
like the modest violet in the hedges; Fissidens falcatulus along creeks on exposed 
roots and logs; Callicostella scabrida (Ilookeria Cruceana ) on logs; Climacium 
americanum, Amblystegium floridanum, A. varium, and A. riparium. On drier 
situations in the adjoining hammock another dwarf moss, Fissidens Garberi, 
occurs on live oak, together with the glossy Entodon Drummondii, Brachythecium 
splendens, and Forsstroemia trichomitria. The variety immersa of the latter 
species occurs together with F. floridanum mostly on elm. 
Cyclodictyon varians is a mud-inhabiting species with Eurhynchium hians. On 
borders of swamps and dried-up ponds occurs Ephemerum megalocarpum, also 
E. spinulosum and E. papillosum. Campylopus inflexus, C. gracilicaulis, C. 
Donnellii , and C. angustiretis are found on sandy banks together with Funaria 
hygrometrica, the very common var. patula, also F. flavicans, F. calvescens, the 
rare F. serratum and single plants of F. americanum. Here also are found Bruchia 
Donnellii and B. Ravenellii. 
For data concerning the habitats of certain other species at Sanford see 
Mrs. Britton’s article in a former number of The Bryologist ( 21 : 27-28. March, 
1918). It may be added that Dicranella curvata ( D . secunda) has been collected 
in Jacksonville, and Ectr opothecium caloosiense and Fontinalis biformis in Tampa, 
Florida. 
List of Species 
Amblystegium floridanum R. & C. {A. riparium var. floridanum). 1 
“ hygrophilum (Jur.) Schimp. 2 
iiriguum Bry. Eur. {H. tenue (Hedw.) Card.)? 102 
riparium (L.) Br. & Sch. 3 
vacillans Sull. 5 
varium (Hedw.) Lindb. 4 
Anomodon attenuatus (Schreb.) Hueb. 6 
