. The Bryologist. Mosses; Liverworts; Lichens; Botany; Bryology. THE BRYOLOGISTV. Vol. XIX September, 1916 No. 5 FOSSOMBRONIA CRISPULA IN THE DUNE REGION OF INDIANA In 1898 two stations were found for a pseudo-foliaceous hepatic which at the time was referred to Fossomhronia crispula Austin. The first of these stations is in the town of Westchester, Porter County, two or three miles eastward from Dune Park, and is in the area "between Dune Park and Mineral Springs, Indi- ana (G. S. Bryan, 1914) " lately given for it by Dr. A. W. Evans in some "Notes on New England Hepaticae"
. The Bryologist. Mosses; Liverworts; Lichens; Botany; Bryology. THE BRYOLOGISTV. Vol. XIX September, 1916 No. 5 FOSSOMBRONIA CRISPULA IN THE DUNE REGION OF INDIANA In 1898 two stations were found for a pseudo-foliaceous hepatic which at the time was referred to Fossomhronia crispula Austin. The first of these stations is in the town of Westchester, Porter County, two or three miles eastward from Dune Park, and is in the area "between Dune Park and Mineral Springs, Indi- ana (G. S. Bryan, 1914) " lately given for it by Dr. A. W. Evans in some "Notes on New England Hepaticae" in Rhodora 17: 105. 1915. In the notes he records some localities for the species outside of New England, in addition to that near Batsto, New Jersey, the type locality, the only one recorded for it until quite re- cently. Shortly after obtaining it near Dune Park, I came across it again about three miles east of ToUeston, Lake County. This would bring it close to the city of Gary, since built there. This station is a few miles west of the former and in the county at the northwestern corner of the state. The dates of the two collec- tions are, respectively, September 19 and September 23, the plants in both places being in good fruiting condition. The habitat, as recorded in my notebook, was "moist or wettish ground of sloughs," the water of which had been dried away, as usually happens in the shallow sloughs and ponds of the dune region at this time of the year. The soil is prevailingly of a peaty nature, the peat mixed with a little sand washed down, or blown in, from bordering but generally fixed dunes with an open vegetation. The slough east of Tolleston was one of the aquatic grass or sedge type, the vegetation in tufts or bunches, or in little hummocks, with bare spaces between them on which the liverwort grew. I do not recall that of the Dune Park station, whether of this or of the sphagnum bog type, both of which are frequent there. The stems of the hepatic w
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