r. Geo 
F.lTichols, 
or Haven, Conn. 
February 8, 1908. 
Bear r. U5chols : 
I am afraid -rof. Fern aid unintentionally 
pave image Importance to my more collection; -in Galisbury. 
Be were there only part of two daya and had three showers 
lurin'- tint time. nr mii: obhodt was to get soil samples, 
owing e« ~ to the fact that for a portion of the time we were 
guests of people who were not intore :ted In botany, that the 
only two trips we made with, t’-em were by carriage and both 
tir.es were caught in a rain raid had to hurry bach on account of 
the ladies in the party, to: n little moss collecting war done. 
I had an oyo open for tolytricha, however, and got some of those 
as well as a fev; other mosses. The latter are largel: undeter¬ 
mined at r. re sent. I have bi; licates of most of them and I 
will he clad to send specimens of such.' They are marked 
below. The olytrlcha sift down to four things, vl%.- 
?. .juniper!num. . commune (form), . Ohioense, and "ogonatuir. 
al inura war. arcticura. The others, so far as l dare to say 
at present are, 
Anomo&on root a at us" , Hylocomiun triquetrum, Thuidiur. Virgin iantu?, * 
Climacium {,-robably the cor::-on species of the region)*, rirw.ls , 
mieranum (zY , Barbuda (?) 4 , iebera*, Biefanella J: , 'lariotheciurn* , 
Georgia ,. Hypnum (probably * imponens)*, ' oiium (probably affine)' 5 ', 
Bryum reseum, T} uiGium (recog. or uolicat.), and a few less certsi 
species. 
Tery trill; yours, 
