91 Mt.Vernon St,March 18th 
1902 
De ar Mr s. Britt on, 
Does one often find Sphagnum fruiting in 
March, in this climate? I was almost as astonished as if I had found 
It was at 
ripe strawberries, but parhaps that only shows my ignorance 
Magnolia,in woods near the station--we found a few fruiting bits—some 
fallen capsules, and some still afittached,and containing spores. Last 
July and August I found plants two species at least,in the Magnolia_swa= 
swamp, abundantly fruiting; I looked in my Braithwaite's Sphagnaceae, 
but suppose the dates were given for English specimens—then in Lesqueu 
and James,and found no dates--then in the mounts that dear Mr.James 
gave me,and found the dates ranged from June to Sept, inclusive,and 
were mostly New Jersey specimens. I should be ever so glad to Imow 
what you can tell me, for two of the Botany Group were with me,when we 
found them—on March 15th. We rambled around close to the Magnolia statu-^ 
but brought back only about thirty species, and many of them sterile. 
I had promised Mrs. Tower and Mrs. Read that! would show them Buxbaumia 
growing,and so I did,but the plants were not quite ripe—they were 
sitting in little coveys on the bank by the station road. 
We got a sterile JBleurocarp that I said was the same that Dr.Grout 
had named Eurhynchium Boscii ,but there was a great outcry—they knew 
Boscii--! had found it in Brookline where a lawn sloped down to a 
retaining wall, and also had some exactly similar from the French Broad 
River—banks of—both golden- .and bronze in color,and growing in rather 
