Cryptogamic Botany 
A DEPARTMENT OF THE OBSERVER, 
PORTLAND, CONN. 
ELIZABETH Q. BRITTON, Editor. 
Columbia College, New York City. 
June 3d, 1897. 
Dear -r. Collins, 
your letter and the packets of C. rivulars 
and Anacamptoflon have been received. You know perhaps that accrod- 
ing to the lat4st treatment of the genus, apocarpa and rivularis ar 
separated, and 3 think correctly. It is very kind of you to send 
me the Anacamptodon. I do not thibk wehad it from Main , and we are 
always gald to have a new staterepresented in the herbarium, and 
ma ine has not been at all thoroughly worked. I think ^rof P. L. Har¬ 
vey of Orone ..nine would be glad of a set of duplicates of any Me. 
mosses that you can spare for him. he has been sending me some for 
namirg . 
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You ask me about your drawings. I think they are very good and I 
ce rtainly should keep them with the speciemsn as you study them. 
At kew they file a separate set of illustrations. At Columbia, we 
naste on to the sheets in the^j^rbarium, any illustrations that we 
get of the different species, then we have them there ready for 
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reference 
I shall be pleased to help you at any time that you are pixzzled, I 
wish you could see my Adirondack collections.! studied them all cr4 
t^ally tis winter, mounted them up in fine shape, named all the 
odds and ends, looked up all the doubtful ones, and find that 1 
ha e 27 rare species, including three that have only been found in 
the IJ.S. but once, Bryum concinnatum, Hypnum ^eckii and II/ T-amesii, 
Zygodon viridissimus, uxbaumia indusiata,8chistostega osnundacea, 
of which I enclose a specimen,n,etraplodon m.nioides, Anacamptodon 
^>pl achno i de s, omalia Tamesii, etc. sincerely yours, 
