The Julian, Tel. 3502. Morning si de, 
415 West 110 St. New York. 
22 Feb. 1912. 
Dear Collinsi- 
I send you today a small parcel containing the 
various specimens of Polytrichaceae that I secured last summer and 
hope that they will arrive all right. I’m sorry that there are no 
more of them, but I think that they are nearly all different forms. 
I must say that the more I look over the specimens, and look at the 
plate of Pogonatum alpinum in Dixon and Jameson, the less alike they 
look. I seem to have in'the Swiss plants, a longer, slimmer, cap¬ 
sule than D &J figure, after all, though not so slender as the 
average american form. I hope that the little fellow from the 
Stelvio turns out to be P. sexangula.re. In each case on the 
label I have given the altitude as nearly as I can find it, and the 
Canton of the Swiss Confederation in which the station is. The 
other localities are all findable by means of Baedecker, or a large 
foreign Atlas. 1 have about come to the conclusion that I must 
purchase one of the latter anyhow. If there are any questions on 
looking over the packets, let me know and I can perhaps supply data. 
I am now moved, and the address above is probably perma¬ 
nent until the middle of June. I have one, nice large room, and 
ample quarters for all the truck that I ought to keep on hand. I 
must confess that I should like to have the chance to keep the bulk® 
of the herbarium here where 1 could at least think that T might use 
it. For the present, though, it's no go. The people in the 
nlrl nlPAf. on tfj/V 11 R+.h St, let. me st\*v until the last, emn wee 
