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New York Botanical Garden 
Bronx Park 
Hew York City 
November 2, 1918. 
Mrs. Horace G. Dunham. 
Auburndale, Mas s. 
My dear Mrs. Dunham: 
We have just finished naming Dr. E.O.Hovey’s 
collections from ITorth Star Bay and Oapt, Gluott’s mosses 
were from the same region. The only Bolytrichaceous moss that 
I find in his collection is Pogonatum alninum var arcticuro and 
Bryhn records P. hyperhoreum and P. striatum from Amondsen’s 
collections. I think yours are P. alpiiaum , I see pedicels on 
number 12 "but no capsules , so we cannot he absolutely certain, 
hut it agrees with our specimens of PI alpinum . All these Arctic 
mosse are very deceptive, all sterile and depauperate and the 
Bffyums are particularly puzzling. Dr. Andrews has had yours 
and Dr. Hovey’s for study and may have reported directly to you 
on your numbers 11 - 14 - 15. Your 16, I believe I told you, is 
Pohlis nutans according to R.S.W. who has collected in the 
Yukon . 
Will you he willing to help on H, E. moss- 
literature for North American Abstracts Journal? That is to 
report additions to the moss-literature of the N. E, states? 
[Signed] Elizabeth. G. Britton. 
