A List of Mosses from Sanford, Florida

Abstract

mosses enumerated in the following list were collected within a radius of ten miles of Sanford, Seminole County, Florida, formerly belonging to Orange County. writer is under great obligations to Mrs. E. G. Britton for determining critical specimens and for preparing most of the list. For the determination of certain specimens thanks are also due to Dr. Best, Dr. Grout, Prof. Holzinger, and Miss Edith A. Warner; and to Dr. A. LeRoy Andrews for determining the specimens of Sphagnum and Bryum. Sanford is situated on the southern shore of Lake Monroe, a tributary of the St. Johns River, and being the entrance of southern Florida is spoken of as The Gate City of South surrounding country is of low elevation and abounds in river-swamps and hammocks; the former with oaks, hickory, Carpinus, and other trees, the latter with cypress, ashes, maple, and elms. It is here in the thinks of the cypress where one finds Fissidens Donnellii, hidden like the modest violet in the hedges; Fissidensfalcatulus along creeks on exposed roots and logs; Callicostella scabrida (Hookeria Cruceana) on logs; Climacium americanum, A mblystegium floridanum, A. varium, and A. riparium. On drier situations in the adjoining hammock another dwarf moss, Fissidens Garberi, occurs on live oak, together with the glossy Entodon Drummondii, Brachythecium splendens, and Forsstroemia trichomitria. variety immersa of the latter species occurs together with F. floridanum mostly on elm. Cyclodictyon varians is a mud-inhabiting species with Eurhynchium hians. On borders of swamps and dried-up ponds occurs Ephemerum megalocarpum, also E. spinulosum and E. papillosum. Campylopus inflexus, C. gracilicaulis, C. Donnellii, and C. angustiretis are found on sandy banks together with Funaria kygrometrica, the very common var. patula, also F. flavicans, F. calvescens, the rare F. serratum and single plants of F. americanum. Here also are found Bruchia Donnellii and B. Ravenellii. For data concerning the habitats of certain other species at Sanford see Mrs. Britton's article in a former number of THE BRYOLOGIST (21: 27-28. March, 1918). It may be added that Dicranella curvata (D. secunda) has been collected in Jacksonville, and Ectropothecium caloosiense and Fontinalis biformis in Tampa, Florida.