Cryptogamic Botany 
lustrate and distribute specimens of, and Miss Cummings and 
ELIZABETH G. BRITTON, Editor. 
Columbia coiig|. > Ne 1 g^^g.jy { j er ^ jjgyg promised to do the same for the Lichens.! also 
hope later to do the same for the F.W . Algae, and the marine, 
nhere are so many interesting things to be told about them all, 
that- even such men as Faxon, and Rau and men who know the mosses, 
and have known them for years, write to me, and say, " I am so glad 
you told me that about the naing of Buxbaumia, I shall not forget 
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it, it is very quaint" and there are lots of things coming up all 
the time that we want to have looked into right away. I mean to go 
and hold 
ble too for a ce ’tainamount of work, and not let my suggestions as 
to what remains to be done go in one ear and out of the other 
I shall send you the White !‘t. Moss, m etraplodon mnioides, from 
timbers of the stable on the summit, saturated with urine, collect 
ed by waxon, and others, and will refer you to D.A.Burnettt, Brad¬ 
ford, Penn, for specimens from his region, ne has duplicates of 
good ones, well named. T send 'lou his list with this 
Sincerely yours 
