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BRYOPHYTES: HISTORICAL DISCUSSION
Thomas Drummond (1780-1835) collected at Niagara
Falls and most likely on Goat Island
in 1818 (Peck, 1866). Drummond found Didymodon luridus at the
Falls, and Clinton found it in October, 1865 "on a dry rock near the
shore, one-eighth to one-quarter of a mile below the American staircase"
(Peck, 1866). If Drummond did collect there in 1818, it was before his
expedition of 1825-1827 with Captain Franklin, R.N., through British North America during which he served as
assistant naturalist to the expedition. The route took him through New York to Ontario
and west in an attempt to find the northwest passage between the Atlantic and Pacific, (Sayre, 1971). Drummond issued an
exsiccat of moss specimens from the western part of the continent, the Musci
Americani, issued, according to the label, in 1828.
Although it is doubtless that Drummond collected at Niagara,
it is unfortunate that some of the specimens he distributed in his Musci
Americani do not derive from the Falls, or he mixed specimens from the
western states with those from the east. The primary example is No. 120 of
the exsiccat, issued as Didymodon trifarius. This is a mixed
collection including D. rigidulus var. rigidulus, and a
variety of D. rigidulus found only in the western states (var. icmadophilus).
Didymodon fallax and D. tophaceus also occur in
this collection. These also occur at the Falls, but they are common in the Rocky Mountains as well. Perhaps there was a certain
confusion at the beginning of Drummond's collecting program and his specimens
or notes were not cared for in the beginning as were his later collections.
The first checklist of the mosses of New York State was produced by
Charles Peck, in 1866, at the suggestion of his political mentor, George
Clinton of Buffalo (see discussion regarding Peck in the mycological
section). Clinton contributed records of bryophyte species from western New
York State, also including bryophytes from the area of Niagara Falls and
maintained a correspondence with Peck regarding moss studies from 1865 to
1879 - some 400 letters from which are archived in the research library of
the Buffalo Museum of Science (Both, 1984).
William Starling Sullivant (1803-1873) graduated in engineering from Yale,
but turned to the study of the natural sciences, particularly botany, and to
bryology, then not yet systematically explored or studied in the United States.
His first bryological effort was the exsiccat of specimens entitled the Musci
Allegheniensis* (around 50 copies, Sayre, 1971), based on collections made
with Asa Gray. The first printing had beige labels, the second printing of
100 copies, had blue labels. Sullivant was beginning to elucidate bryology in
North America in the publications of the American Academy
of Science, and in editions of Gray's Manual of Botany. He collaborated with
Leo Lesquereux in issuing the Musci Boreali-Americani** in two editions (1857
& 1866). His specimens are at Harvard (Humphrey, 1961).
Leo Lesquereux (1806-1889) was Swiss born. He came to America in 1847
after having established his reputation based on a study of peat, which is a
habitat heavily occupied by bryophytes (chiefly the moss Sphagnum). In
the United States he
collected bryophytes and other plants in the eastern United States,
some of which were employed in his exsiccat, with Sullivant, the Musci
Boreali-Americani. A specimen of Thuidium abietinum collected
"in insula Goat Island dicta juxta
cataractam Niagarae" was distributed in that exsiccat (No. 413, Ed. 2),
as was Tortella tortuosa (No. 97b, Ed. 1; No. 137, Ed. 2).
When Sullivant had died while developing a manual of the mosses of North America, Asa Gray encouraged Lesquereux to
complete it, which he did, in collaboration with Thomas Potts James, then
working on mosses at Harvard (Humphrey, 1961). Lesquereux and Jame's 1884
Manual was the first book published dealing with the moss flora of the
continent to that time. References are made to collections from all over the United States and Mexico,
including those made at Niagara Falls (Bryum
cyclophyllum ("On stones wet by spray, at Niagara Falls (G. W. Clinton)"), Hypnum
irriguum var. irriguum, Hypnum revolvens var. intermedium,
etc.).
It is in an earlier publication in 1866 by Charles H. Peck that we learn
of Lesquereux's researches on Goat Island itself, where four species are
represented from his collections there, and another four from the area of Niagara Falls.
According to Peck, Lesquereux made collections throughout New York State,
including Goat Island. Dicranum montanum
was collected on the Island by Lesquereux,
as was Anomodon viticulosus, Abietinella abietina
(as Hypnum abietinum), Tortella tortuosa (as Barbula
tortuosa), and Rhytidium rugosum (as Hypnum rugosum).
He also found Orthotrichum anomalum and Bryum turbinatum
at Niagara Falls
(Peck, 1866). Lesquereux corresponded with George Clinton regarding mosses,
and some of his letters are preserved in the archives of the Buffalo Museum
of Science. Lesquereux assisted Peck in the compilation of the first
checklist of the mosses of New
York State.
Also in 1866, and as an indication of the attraction Niagara Falls
posed to botanists from all parts of the country, is a specimen collected
there by Charles Mohr, a distinguished botanist from Alabama who must have
been visiting the area and collected at least one specimen of Orthotrichum
anomalum from the calcareous rocks that abound in the area, deposited now
at the Smithsonian Institution: USA: Niagara Falls, N.Y. Charles Mohr, Coll.
July 1, 1866, herbarium of Charles Mohr, presented in 1901, "ad saxas
calcareas," c. fr. (US)
Louis Agassiz, as noted elsewhere in this text, passed through Goat Island
with students and scholars from Harvard on their way to Lake
Superior, prior to 1850. Perhaps it was on this expedition that Agassiz collected enough of the moss Orthotrichum
anomalum to contribute to both editions of Sullivant and Lesquereux's
Musci Boreali-Americani (No. 119, Ed.1; No. 177, Ed. 2).
Thomas Potts James (1803-1882) published papers on North American mosses
and liverworts before a manual existed for their identification in North America. He was able to study bryology at Harvard University,
and there produced a number of early publications based on the study of
bryophytes collected in geological surveys in western North
America. He is most noted for his collaboration with Lesquereux
on the Manual of North American Mosses, the first of its kind, which was
published in 1884, two years after James' death (Humphrey, 1961).
T. P. James had previously collected on Goat Island,
publishing some of his discoveries (Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc.), noted by Peck
(1866). For example he found Encalypta streptocarpa Hedw. at Niagara Falls, and Amblystegiella jungermannioides
(as Hypnum sprucei) on Goat Island
itself (cited in Day, 1883). Other specimens of James' from Niagara
may be sought at the Farlow Cryptogamic Herbarium, Harvard University (FH)
and the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (PH).
Eugene A. Rau, of Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, home town also of
Francis Wolle, the algologist and collector of mosses (see section on
phycology and specimens listed below) did research in bryology, which
contributed to Lesquereux and James' Mosses of North America (1884). Rau and
A. B. Hervey published a catalogue of North American Mosses in 1880. His herbarium
was purchased by the New York Botanical Garden in 1928, and specimens from Niagara are included in it. Mr. Rau collected at Niagara Falls (see Fissidens
grandifrons below).
Charles Reid Barnes (1858-1910), professor of botany at the University of
Wisconsin, later at Chicago, and editor of the Botanical Gazette (Sayre,
1975), published Analytic Keys to the Genera and Species of North American
Mosses in 1897 (1896, Sayre, 1975) since such a key was not provided by
Lesquereux and James' North American flora. The moss genus Barnesia is
named after him. Other specimens of his from Niagara
may be sought in the herbaria at NY, F, PC and Y. See Anon, 1910; Cowles,
1910; Howe, 1910; Humphrey, 1961.
In 1886 the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) was held in Buffalo, N.Y. - an event referred to by
Superintendent Welch (3 Ann Rep Comm, 1888). A retinue of this group visited
the Reservation and "discussed the geological features of Niagara, in convention." A review of the
excursion-list which Welch scrupulously developed each year of the
Reservation's existence revealed a notation for August 21, "Buffalo, N.Y.,
Scientists, 3 Cars, ca. 180 people." During the course of examining the
labels of bryophyte specimens at the New York
Botanical Garden, a series of labels
from Niagara were noted (see below), quite a
number of them collected on the same day, or the next - August 21 or 22,
1886. It is curious that specimens collected by Barnes (see list) were
collected on Goat Island on August 21, 1886,
the same day and place as some of Rau's. It seemed at first that both these
men sent their collections to Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, a bryologist
associated with the New York
Botanical Garden, to
verify, except that some labels include her name or initials as collector,
along with the letters AAAS, for August 21. It then became apparent these
specimens were collected by the participants in the AAAS foray of 1886 -
Charles Barnes, Eugene Rau and Elizabeth Britton.
The fifteenth meeting of the AAAS was sponsored by the young Buffalo
Society of Natural Sciences (BSNS) in August, 1866. Founded in 1848, the AAAS
had been suspending its national meetings during the Civil War since its 1860
meeting in Rhode Island
"because of sectional strife" between members with southern or
northern affinities. The BSNS again hosted the annual meeting of the AAAS on
August 23, 1876 and a field trip to Niagara Falls was probable as the
citizens of that town were thanked for their "magnificent
hospitality" (Robertson, 1938). Foreign scientists participated in that
meeting, due to the coincidence of the Centennial Exposition in Pennsylvania in the
same year. It is probable that specimens collected from Goat
Island made their way to herbaria overseas.
The thirty-fifth AAAS meeting, sponsored again by the BSNS, held its field
trip to Goat Island in the second year of
the Reservation's existence - when the bryologists mentioned above made their
collections. The final AAAS meeting sponsored by the BSNS was held in 1896,
August 24-28 with an excursion to Niagara Falls "when the younger
scientists enjoyed the rare privilege of collecting in company with some of
the most noted scientists of the day" including Dr. and Mrs. Nathaniel
Lord Britton (Elizabeth Gertrude Britton), Lucien M. Underwood and David F.
Day (Robertson, 1938).
After the death of Sullivant "no outstanding muscologist appeared [in
America]
... until the adoption of bryology as a field of major interest by Elizabeth
Gertrude Knight," later Britton (Steere, 1977). Elizabeth G. Britton
(1858-1934) published many significant papers on bryology and was curator of
mosses at the New York
Botanical Garden in
1912. Mrs. Britton appears to have made no other collections at Niagara other than those made at the 1866 AAAS
conference.
Coe Finch Austin (1831-1880), who made collections at Niagara Falls on July 18th, 1874 (see
specimens) published an exsiccat, the Musci Appalachiani, 1870, with a
Supplement No. 1 in 1878. No. 496 of the Supplement came, in part, from Niagara Falls. In
addition to this publication, in which several new species were introduced,
Mr. Austin published other papers constituting revisions of taxa in the
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (Sayre, 1971). He was a collaborator
with Sullivant, and worked with John Torrey for a while in the herbarium at Columbia College
(later transferred to the New
York Botanical Garden
- see specimens. The specimens from Princeton
may have had something to do with Torrey's activities, too). Austin
was to become "the chief authority on the hepatics of North
America" (Sayre, 1987).
Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853-1907) was a hepaticologist, publishing, in
1884, his "Descriptive catalogue of the North American Hepaticae, north
of Mexico."
He was co-author with Orator Fuller Cook (1867-1949) of an exsiccat entitled
Hepaticae Americanae Decades I-XX, numbers 1-200 issued from Syracuse, New
York between 1887 and 1899 (Sayre, 1971), perhaps during the time he taught
at Syracuse University (Haynes, 1908). Underwood was the author of the
hepatic section of Gray's Manual of Botany, ed. 6, 890 (see Haynes, 1908;
Curtis, 1908). Mr. Underwood also was present on the AAAS foray of 1886 (v. Reboulia
hemisphaerica label information, below).
Steven Thayer Olney (1812-1878), who collected at Niagara (see Didymodon
tophaceus below) contributed to several specialties in North American
botany: in North American plants of the genus Carex, with exsiccatae
of his specimens, in the algae of Rhode
Island, an exsiccat of which he published. He
contributed collections of bryophytes as numbered sets in Sullivant and
Lesquereux's second edition of their Musci Boreali-Americani (Sayre, 1975).
His herbarium is at Brown University and perhaps other collections of plants
from Niagara Falls
may be found there (see Gray, 1879).
Marshall Avery Howe (1867-1936) between 1891 and 1896 worked as Instructor
in Cryptogamic Botany at the University
of California. It was
during this period Howe made this collection of Preissia quadrata
on the Three Sisters Islands
(see below). Howe's doctoral thesis, published in Mem. Torrey Club 7, 1899,
was the Hepaticae and Anthocerotes of California. The section on Hepaticae in
Grout's "Mosses with a Hand-Lens" (1924) was written by Howe
(Sayre, 1971). Howe became curator of the herbarium at Columbia
College and worked in this capacity
from 1899 to 1901, becoming curator and later director of the New York Botanical Garden (Sayre, 1971). Sayre
provides additional bibliography: American Men of Science; Journal of the New
York Botanical Garden 38: 25-32, 1937; Bryologist Vol. 40: 33-36, 1937.
George Clinton began to mention mosses on his day trips to Niagara in his journal on June 1, 1865. He began this
document in 1862. On the first of June, 1865, near the DeVeaux section of the
Niagara River Gorge, he found "on the wet rock, bulging masses of a nice
dark green moss ... afterward noticed the same on the wet precipice below the
American Staircase." Today, only occurring on the vertical dolomite
faces of the gorge, including the Goat Island bluffs, these same dark green
masses are seen to be primarily composed of the mosses Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
and secondarily Didymodon tophaceus. In shale seepage further
downstream in the gorge, Cratoneuron filicinum mats replace the
previous two species. These mosses remove during photosynthesis "carbon
dioxide from water charged with soluble calcium bicarbonate [resulting in]
precipitation of insoluble calcium carbonate (Crum & Anderson, 1981)
producing a soft, porous kind of stony material which frequently breaks off
and falls to the talus below, where they are found by people who marvel at
the calcified leafy stem-structures of the mosses in the texture of the rock.
Some call these stony masses Didymodontoliths. These mosses and their tufa
bases are typical of calcareous seeps and waterfalls all over North America,
including the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico.
On the same day, Clinton
again found "a pretty, small fruited moss, and [Preissia quadrata]"
near the American Staircase. On Goat Island
he found "one or two mosses collected before." On June 10, he
collected Barbula tortuosa var. (Tortella tortuosa
now restricted to one place on the First of the Three Sisters
Islands.) On July 26,
he "picked up a little of 2 or 3 small mosses, one very small, like a Hypnum,
growing on stones. Found the same on Goat Island,
near the cascade. On August 8, "On wettish rocks, at and above top of
talus, everywhere here & on Goat Island,
below Biddle Staircase, Preissia commmutata [= P. quadrata],
now past fruit, abundant. Near the water, a good way below the Staircase, on
a large rock, a small moss in fruit, which may be new, not before collected
by me [Gymnostomum crossed out]. Fissidens grandifrons
does not extend far below the Staircase, nor have I found it on Goat Island... Descended the Biddle Staircase. Gymnostomum
curvirostrum everywhere, common on wet rocks..." Preissia commutata
[P. quadrata] still occurs in the place mentioned; the Gymnostomum
curvirostrum is the Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
mentioned above; Fissidens grandifrons may be found today on
the north shore of Goat Island, and between Goat Island and the First Sister Island
in ledges under falling water.
It was about this time of the year that Clinton
became interested in collecting Anomodon viticulosus on Goat Island, where earlier Lesquereux had collected it
(Peck, 1866). Clinton had apparently found
this species already at "Various localities about Niagara Falls" (Peck, 1866). On
September 27, he "walked up to Goat Island down the Biddle Stairs &
searched near the Middle & the British
Falls for Anomodon
viticulosus, then to the American Staircase & did the same at the
American Fall." He must have written about it to Lesquereux, for on
October 18, 1865, "Before breakfast, redc. letter from Dr. Lesquereux,
giving the precise station of Anomodon viticulosus on Goat Island." He searched for it that day,
"examined the station, but, alas! no Anomodon vit's there! The station
was on Goat Island, on a rock, about halfway down the path leading from the
Carriage way to the Bridge to Luna
Island, not the Hog's
Back path, but the one above it. There's no rock there. Perhaps the path has
been changed since Dr. L. was there." Clinton's
correspondence with Lesquereux included the exchange of specimens, for Clinton refers to
having collected Orthotrichum cupulatum for him "from
trees in the park opposite the Ferry House." Happily, on October 21, he
"went to Goat Island, and, commencing at the end of the Bridge, explored
the bank all the way down to opposite the middle of the island above Luna Island.
Found no rock till I got there - a ridge of the bank, and there, quite close
to the bank, was a large rock, in the earth on top of which was an Anomodon
which I am confident is not A. obtusifolius (it turned out to be A.
viticulosus). At the foot of the Cascade, in the water, growing on the rock
... Fissidens grandifrons." In 1866, on April 21, with a
Mr. Pettibone, Clinton returned to Goat Island
and "the channel between the Island
& the First Sister being dry, I walked over & explored it. Hypnum
nudum [Leskea polycarpa] abundant. Collected an Orthotrichum
on Goat Island." on May 12, he found the liverwort Fegatella conica
(= Conocephalum conicum) capitally "in fruit."
In 1882, the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo, New York,
published the first part of The Plants of Buffalo and Vicinity by David F.
Day and listing the vascular flora. One year later the second part was issued
containing treatments of the rather inconspicuous and less well known
organisms: mosses, liverworts, lichens, fungi and algae - an ambitious
undertaking which has been and still is seldom duplicated in floras and other
botanical surveys.
Day (1882) indicated the following regarding authorship:
"Grateful acknowledgments are made to Mr. Charles H. Peck, of Albany, N.Y.,
the State Botanist, for his kindness in supervising and correcting our lists
of Musci, Hepaticae and Fungi: - originally prepared by Judge Clinton, by
whom all the species were detected, except as otherwise stated."
Among numerous references in the 1883 publication were species found at
the American Staircase (area below Prospect Point), Devil's Hole, Whirlpool
Woods, Foster's Flats, and other localities in the Niagara River Gorge. The
following bryophytes were reported from Goat Island:
Musci:
Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Chen (as Barbula rubella Roth. Goat Is., Niagara River.
Dicranum montanum Hedw. "Goat
Is., Niagara Falls,
Lesquereux," Sullivant.
Fissidens grandifrons Brid. Goat
Is., at the Cascade.
Amblystegiella jungermannioides
(Brid.) Giac. (as Hypnum sprucei Brch. Goat Is., Niagara Falls, [T.P.] James
Hepaticae:
Conocephalum conicum (L.) Lindb.
(as Fegatella conica Corda.) Goat Is., Niagara Falls.
On a more recent note, Dr. Ruth Schornherst Breen made collections at Niagara Falls when she was studying for her doctorate at
the University
of Michigan. Dr. Breen
was President of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society and a
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She wrote
a manual of the moss flora of Florida
in 1963.
Specimens of mosses collected at Goat Island and Niagara
Falls seen at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (US)
derive from the herbarium of Charles Mohr of Mobile,
Alabama, a collector of the late 19th
century who worked in Mexico,
Europe and the United
States. His collections were donated to
the National Herbarium in 1901. Among his specimens were several from Niagara Falls, some
collected Lesquereux, and in his company (v. Dicranum montanum,
July 1866) and some by Francis Wolle (1817-1893, some of whose phycological
specimens from the Falls are reported - see phycological section). Labels by
Wolle specifically cite Goat Island as the
collecting locality.
Specimens from the New York
Botanical Garden are
indicated as (NY), from the Clinton Herbarium, Buffalo Museum of Science as
(BUF), from the United States National Herbarium Smithsonian Institution as
(US).
BRYOPHYTES - HISTORICAL SPECIMENS
[Aloina rigida (Hedw. ex Schultz)
Kindb. gives the locality "Niagara"
for a station of distribution for this species treated by Mrs. Ethelda J.
Craig (Grout, 1936). This specimen could not be found at the New York Botanical Garden or the National
Herbarium.]
Anomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook.
& Tayl.
Hab. Trunks of trees in Upper
Canada; and about the Falls
of Niagara. Musci
Americani. Thomas Drummond. 1828 Torrey Herbarium (NY). [A specimen by George
Clinton has not been found - see discussion above.]
Barbula unguiculata Hedw.
Niagara Falls,
[Francis] Wolle (NY).
Barbula unguiculata Hedw.
Niagara Falls
leg. C. F. Austin, July 18, 1874 Ex Herb. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa.
(NY).
Brachythecium rutabulum var. densum
BSG
Niagara Falls, N.Y. Goat Island M. F. Gunning, May, 1872 United States
National Herbarium (US).
Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Chen
(As Didymodon rubellus var.) Niagara Falls, N.Y.
July 18th, 1874 North American Mosses From the Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin
(NY).
Bryum sp.
Niagara Falls, N.Y. July 18, 1879 "Dupl. to Andrews not B.
turbinatum fide A. Leroy A[ndrews"] Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin
Purchased by Columbia
College, 1880-1885
(NY).
Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.)
Gaertn., Meyer & Scherb.
(As Bryum bimum (Brid.) Turn.) Niagara, N.Y. Goat Island F. Wolle, Coll. 25 July 1872
Herbarium of Charles Mohr, presented in 1901. United States National Herbarium
(US).
Bryum turbinatum (Hedw.) Turn.
No. 190. Hab. ad rupes irroratas Niagarae
cataractae; etiam in scaturiginosis Minnesotae. Musci Boreali-Americani sive
Specimina Exsiccata Muscorum in Americae Rebuspublicis Foederatis detectorum
conjunctis studiis W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux MDCCCLVI Presentation
copy to H. W. Ravenel Purchased from his estate by L. M. Underwood, 1892, New
York Botanical Garden Underwood Collection, 1914.
Bryum turbinatum (Hedw.) Turn.
No. 287. Hab. ad rupes irroratas Niagarae
cataractae; etiam in scaturiginosis Minnesotae. [Sullivant & Lesqureux,
Musci Bor.-Amer. ed. 2]
Dicranum montanum Hedw.
No. 55. Hab. in truncis emortuis prope Niagarae
cataractam. Musci Boreali-Americani sive Specimina Exsiccata Muscorum in
Americae Rebuspublicis Foederatis detectorum conjunctis studiis W. S.
Sullivant et L. Lesquereux MDCCCLVI Presentation copy to H. W. Ravenel
Purchased from his estate by L. M. Underwood, 1892 New York Botanical Garden,
Underwood Collection, 1914 (NY).
Dicranum montanum Hedw.
No. 55. Hab. in truncis emortuis prope Niagarae
cataractam. Sullivant & Lesquereux, Musci Boreali-Americani, ed. 1. (NY).
[it grows on dead [tree] trunks near the cataract of Niagara]
(NY)
Dicranum montanum Hedw.
No. 71. Hab. in truncis emortuis prope Niagarae
cataractam; etiam per montes Novaeboracenses sat frequens. Sullivant &
Lesquereux, Musci Bor.-Amer. ed. 2 (NY). [it grows on dead tree trunks near
the falls of Niagara;
also it is quite frequent throughout the mountains of New York]
Dicranum montanum Hedw.
Locality: Niagara
Falls Collect: Lesq[uereux] & Mohr July 1866 Flora: New York Herbarium of
Charles Mohr, presented in 1901. United States National Herbarium
(US)
Didymodon fallax (Hedw.) Zand.
(As Barbula fallax) with Didmodon
trifarius No. 120, Falls of Niagara,
Drummond. [Didymodon fallax has been isolated from the
collection of Didymodon trifarious and made into a separate
specimen, from the William Mitten herbarium, now at NY. R. Zander has
examined this collection and determined it to be D. rigidulus
var. icmadophilus, a variety from western North
America.]
Didymodon fallax (Hedw.) Zand. var.
reflexus (Brid.) Zand.
(As Tortula recurvifolia) No. 496.
Hab. ... Watkin's Glen and Niagara
Falls, New York ...
Musci Appalachiani Supplement 1. Coe F. Austin 1878.
Didymodon luridus Hornsch. var. cuspidatus
Schimp.
This species was noted from Niagara Falls, citing specimens of
Drummond's and Clinton, by Lesquereux and James (1884).
Didymodon luridus Hornsch.
Locus: Niagara
Falls, N.Y. G. W. Clinton, legit ex collectione Charles H. Peck Albany, N.Y.
(NY).
Didymodon luridus Hornsch.
Niagara Falls Ex Coll. Geo. W. Clinton Herbarium
Dr. E. C. Howe purchased 1902 (NY).
Didymodon luridus Hornsch.
Hab. Niagara Falls legit Clinton North American
Mosses Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem,
Pa. (NY).
Didymodon luridus Hornsch.
Niagara
Falls Coll. Francis Wolle 1873. Herbarium Coe Finch Austin Purchased by Columbia College, 1885-1887 (NY).
Didymodon luridus Hornsch.
Fr[uit]. Niagara
Falls. 1873. F. Wolle [coll.] Cryptogamic Collection of John B. Leiberg North
American Mosses Distributed from the Herbarium of Columbia College by E. G.
Britton Presented to the United States National Museum, 1914, (US).
Didymodon rigidulus Hedw.
(As Trichostomum rigidulum) Hab.
Niagara Falls, July 18, 1874 Leg. C. F. Austin Herbarium Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa.
The New York Botanical Garden. Moss Herbarium of
Eugene A. Rau. Presented by Mr. Rau, 1928. (NY).
Didymodon rigidulus Hedw.
(As Trichostomum rigidulum) No.
102. Hab. ad Niagarae fluminis rupes humidas. Musci Boreali-Americani sive
Specimina Exsiccata Muscorum in Americae Rebuspublicis Foederatis detectorum
conjunctis studiis W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux MDCCCLVI Presentation
copy to H. W. Ravenel Purchased from his estate by L. M. Underwood, 1892 New
York Botanical Garden Underwood Collection, 1914. [there is also a duplicate
from Columbia University, ex Herb. N. B. Ward, 1896
(NY).]
Didymodon rigidulus Hedw.
(As Trichostomum rigidulum) No.
150. Hab. ad Niagarae fluminis rupes humidas. Sullivant & Lesquereux,
Musci Bor.-Amer. ed. 2 (NY).
Didymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa
(As Didymodon? diversifolius Austin) TYPE LOCALITY -
description in Latin No. 115. Musci Appalachiani by Coe F. Austin, 1870 Hab.
... near Newville, Herkimer County,
New York (1868). Also about Niagara Falls, S. T.
Olney. Herbarium of J. A. Allen, 1912 (NY).
Didymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa
(As Trichostomum tophaceum = T.
rigidulum Aust. olim.) Hab. Niagara Falls, N.Y. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa.
Moss Herbarium of Eugene A. Rau. Presented by Mr. Rau, 1928. North American
Mosses (NY).
Didymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa
Slate rocks, under the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara, N.Y.
July 25th, 1927. Brother Leon
[?].
Didymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa
Niagara Falls.
G. W. Clinton, 1865 [leg.] Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin
Purchased by Columbia
College, 1885-1887 (NY).
Didymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa
Niagara Falls.
N.Y., S. T. Olney [leg.] Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin
Purchased by Columbia
College, 1885-1887 (NY).
Didymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa
(As Trichostomum tophaceum var.) Niagara Falls. N.Y. July 18th, 1874. [leg.] C.F.A.
Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin Purchased by Columbia College,
1885-1887 (NY).
Didymodon trifarius Swartz
No. 120. Hab. About the Falls of Niagara
Drummond, Musci Americani. 1828. New
York Botanical Garden.
[Another collection of this species is stated as from the Rocky
Mountains, also no. 120 in Drummond's exsiccat, cf. Crum &
Anderson, 1981. Richard Zander has
redetermined this specimen as Didymodon rigidulus var. rigidulus.
A duplicate specimen is in the William Mitten herbarium, now at NY. Another
"duplicate" of No. 120, from the Mitten herbarium was redetermined
as D. tophaceus, fide Zander.] A specimen from the Mitten
Herbarium labelled as Didymodon trifarius var. from North America, "on rocks and trunks of
trees," No. 7, Nr. 138 has been redetermined as D. rigidulus
var. rigidulus by Zander, for this study.
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
Niagara Falls, New
York Ex Coll. G. W. Clinton, Buffalo, N.Y. [in Clinton's
handwriting] Herbarium of Dr. E. C. Howe, Purchased 1902 (NY). [Another
specimen by Clinton is at New York from the herbarium of Dr. O. R.
Willis, presented 1903, but without locality.]
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
Locus Niagara Falls,
N.Y. ex coll. Charles H. Peck, G.W. Clinton, legit. Albany, N.Y.
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
Wet rocks, Niagara
Falls. 1874. C.F.A. Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin Purchased by Columbia College, 1880-1885 (NY).
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
Spring on Goat Id., Niagara
Falls, N.Y. Aug.
27th, 1889 North American Mosses Named and presented by E. G. Britton (NY).
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
Niagara River - Goat Id.
1886. Aug. 21 Named by C. R. Barnes North American Mosses Presented by E. G.
Britton [inside packet] Stream below the spring, Goat Island, Niagara River. C. R. Barnes, legit. Aug. 21, 1886.
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
No. 88. Hab. in rupibus irroratis ad Niagarae
cataractam, sterilis. Musci Boreali-Americani sive Specimina Exsiccata
Muscorum in Americae Rebuspublicis Foederatis detectorum conjunctis studiis
W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux MDCCCLVI Presentation copy to H. W. Ravenel
Purchased from his estate by L. M. Underwood, 1892, Underwood Collection,
1914 (NY).
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
Niagara Falls, G.
W. Clinton Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin Purchased by Columbia
College, 1880-1885 [inner packet:]
Wet rocks, Niagara Falls,
G. W. Clinton, leg. C[harles] H[orton] P[eck] misit. [Another label inside
in-dicates the specimen derived from the Herbarium of C. F. Porter[?]
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
Niagara Falls.
F. Wolle, 1873. Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin
Purchased by Columbia
College, 1880-1885 (NY).
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
(As Pachyfissidens grandifrons) Niagara Falls (American
side) 26 August 1917. In drip, on limestone, within 25 feet of the American Falls. Coll. A. T. Beals Det. W[illiam] H.
W[iegmann] Flora of New York (Musci Noveboracenses) Herbarium of William H.
Wiegmann, M.D. (NY).
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
Hab. Niagara Falls. No. 24 Coll. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa.
Herbarium of J. A. Allen, 1912 (NY).
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
Hab. Niagara Falls, 1873. F. Wolle North American
Mosses Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa. Moss Herbarium of Eugene A. Rau
Presented by Mr. Rau, 1928 (NY).
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
No. 483. Hab. Wet rocks, Niagara
Falls and northwestward to the Rocky
Mountains. Austin, Musci Appalachiani: Supplement I.
Underwood Collection, 1914 (NY).
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
Goat Island.
Near the "Spring" Aug. 1886 L. M. U[nderwood leg.] The Underwood
Collection, 1914 (NY).
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
No. 186. Hab. ad Niagarae catafactam in rupibus
irroratis. Musci Alleghaniensis. W. S. Sullivant, 1845. This copy of the work
was presented by W. S. Sullivant to C. W. Short, M.D. with whose collections
it came into the possession of the Philadelphia Academy of Science. It was
purchased from the Academy by L. M. Underwood in November 1891. Underwood
Collection, 1914 (NY).
[Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
"Abundant below Niagara Falls. (Lesq. & James.)"
Printed on a label, probably of a Macoun exsiccat (Geological and Natural
History Survey of Canada) No. 135. indicating the author was including Ontario in Lesquereux and James's references to "Niagara Falls".
The is a specimen of F. grandifrons collected by John Macoun
16/5, 1901 "On rocks in a spring, Niagara Falls" No. 22 New York
Botanical Garden, Mosses from Ontario, Canada]]
Funaria sp.
Luna Island, Niagara Falls,
Aug. 21, 1886 [Eugene A. Rau collected a variety of mosses at Niagara on this date] (NY).
Funaria americana L.
Funaria hygrometrica var. patula.
Musc. Appalach. N. Falls, 1873 [Francis] Wolle cum fructu (NY).
Grimmia hookeri [Drummond as] nov.
sp.,
No. 61. caulibus caespitosis brevibus, foliis
linearibus obtusiusculis valde crispatis, seta elongata flexuosa, capsula
elliptica laevi, operculo longe rostrato recto, calyptra campanulata stricta
basi multifida. Hab. On a stone near the falls
of Niagara in Upper Canada: rare. Musci Americani.
Thomas Drummond. 1828. From the Torrey Herbarium (NY). Crum and Anderson
(1981) cite Ontario (Niagara Falls) as one locality for Ptychomitrium
incurvum, p. 670. Ketchledge, 1980, reports the distribution of this
moss as occurring in the extreme southeastern portion of the State, around New York City. Crum and
Anderson (1981) cite stations in New York
west to Michigan, Iowa,
Kansas, the Gulf States
and Texas. Ontario is the only province in Canada in which this species occurs (Ireland,
et al., 1980) -probably at Niagara. There is
little reason to suppose this didn't come from Niagara,
although on the Canadian side. It is unlikely Drummond collected this in the Rockies!
Grimmia pilifera P.-Beauv.
(As Grimmia pennsylvanica) No. 56.
Hab. Near the Falls of Niagara; upon rocks.
Musci Americani. Thomas Drummond. 1828. From the Torrey Herbarium (NY).
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum curvirostrum) No.
25. Hab. - Falls
of Niagara Musci
Americani. Thomas Drummond. 1828. Torrey Herbarium (NY).
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.)
Dix.
(As Gymnostomum curvirostrum)
No. 52. Hab. ad rupes irriguas frequens. Musci Boreali-Americani sive
specimina exsiccata muscorum in Americae Rebuspublicis Foederatis Detectorum,
Conjunctis studiis W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux. MDCCCLVI Columbia
University, ex Herb. N.
B. Ward, 1896 (NY).
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum curvirostrum var.)
[undescribed variety] No. 41. Capsula ovato-cylindrica fusco-lutea Hab. in
rupibus irriguis Niagarae cataractae. MusciBoreali-Americani sive specimina
exsiccata muscorum in Americae Rebuspublicis Foederatis Detectorum,
Conjunctis studiis W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux. MDCCCLVI Columbia
University, ex Herb. N.
B. Ward, 1896 New York
Botanical Garden [This
variety is not listed by either Sullivant & James (1884) [or ???].
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum curvirostrum) No.
25. Hab. Falls
of Niagara Musci Americani. Thomas Drummond.
1828 Hooker's Journal of Botany 3:433. 1841 London Journal of Botany 2:664. 1843 (NY).
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum curvirostrum) No.
40. Hab. ad rupes irriguas frequens. Musci Boreali-Americani sive specimina
exsiccata muscorum in Americae Rebuspublicis Foederatis Detectorum,
Conjunctis studiis W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux. MDCCCLVI Columbia
University, ex Herb. N.
B. Ward, 1896 (NY).
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum curvirostrum, var.)
[undescribed variety] No. 53. Capsula ovato-cylindrica fusco-lutea. Hab. in
rupibus irriguis Niagarae cataractae. MusciBoreali-Americani quorum specimina
exsiccata W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux. ediderunt. Editio Secunda, 1865
Presented to John Torrey by W. S. Sullivant [Another label: "2 Dups.
Jaeger Herb." No. 777 H[ymenostylium] curvirostre Lindbg.
var. ovatum Sull. Lesq. Sull. & Lesq. Bor. Amer. No. 53"]
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum curvirostrum) No.
193. Hab. ad cataractam Niagarae. Musci Alleghanienses W. S. Sullivant, 1845.
Coll. L.
M. Underwood
New York Botanical
Garden [a duplicate is in the herbarium of William Mitten,
1906, now at the New York
Botanical Garden]
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum curvirostrum)
Locus: Niagara Falls Ex Coll. G. W. Clinton Herbarium of Dr. E. C. Howe, now
at the New York
Botanical Garden [a
duplicate exists from the herbarium of Charles H. Peck]
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum curvirostrum) var. commutatum
Rocks. Niagara. N. America [collector
unknown] Herbarium William Mitten 1906, presented to the New York Botanical Garden.
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum curvirostrum) Niagara Falls, On calcareous region. Aug. 26, 1917.
Coll. A. T. Beals Herbarium of William H. Wiegman, M.D. (NY).
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum curvirostrum) Niagara, on limestone. Ruth Schornherst Ann Arbor, Michigan July 17, 1937 Herbarium
Florida State
University now at New York Botanical Garden.
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum rupestre) Niagara Falls legit G. W. Clinton "Two things: one
is Seligeria (removed), the other as named" Examined for North
American Flora Det. by A. Le Roy Andrews Herb. Dr. E. C. Howe (NY).
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum rupestre) fide
Lesq. & James. Didymodon Clintoni Austin. Torrey, Bulletin Vol. vi p. 42
Niagara Clinton New
Providence. Wm. Mulligan Sept, 1873 North American Mosses Eugene
A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa. (NY).
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
(As Gymnostomum rupestre) Hab. On
ground towards 3 Sister Islands, Niagara
Falls. Aug. 21, 1886 [Coll. E. A. Rau - cf. other collections with this date]
North American Mosses Herb. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa. [Duplicates of this
collection are in the herbarium of Coe Finch Austin, and the herbarium of
what was to become Columbia University, both now at NY. This species usually
grows on rock, not soil, and is indirect evidence for thin soil and bedrock
exposure on the southeast end of Goat Island.]
A specimen of H. recurvirostrum was collected at the Biddle
Stairs, "on damp rocks at Niagara Falls
below Biddle's Staire, Goat Island, Sept. 1853" on a label in a specimen
from the Chapman Collection, which at one time was in the Torrey Herbarium,
another in the Columbia University Herbarium and now at the New York Botanical Garden. The collector
is not mentioned - perhaps Chapman?. [H. recurvirostrum, as G.
curvirostrum is noted as "very abundant at Niagara Falls" by Lesquereux and
James, 1884; no variety is mentioned.]
Hyophila involuta (Hook.) Jaeg.
& Sauerb.
(As Pottia riparia Austin) Hab. Niagara Falls. 1873. Legit
Rev. F. Wolle. North American Mosses Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa.
New York Botanical
Garden [A duplicate went to the herbarium of Coe Finch
Austin, purchased later by Columbia
University, and now at
NY.
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.
Hab. Niagara. 1873. leg. F. Wolle. Herb. Eugene
A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa. The New York Botanical Garden.
Moss Herbarium of Eugene A. Rau. Presented by Mr. Rau, 1928. North American
Mosses. [over handwritten label] (NY).
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.
Niagara
Falls, N.Y. Coll.H.
Gillman. Plants of New York.
From the Princeton
University Herbarium
(NY).
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.
Niagara Falls.
Rev. F. Wolle. 1873 - . Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin. Purchased by Columbia College,
1885 - 1887. New York
Botanical Garden.
Herbarium of Mr. P. V. LeRoy, Purchased 1898.
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.
Hab. Niagara Falls - Clinton. "trees above Falls / Clinton" North
American Mosses. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem,
Pa. (NY) [several collections
of this species exist, made by George Clinton, but no localities were given:
one presented to the New York Botanical Garden (NY) in the Herbarium of Dr.
O. R. Willis (presented 1903), and another from the Princeton Herbarium
(deposited 1945).
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.
No. 119. Sull. & Lesq. Musci
Boreali-Americani. Ed. I Niagara - Agassiz (BUF, NY)
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.
No. 177. Sull. & Lesq. M. Bor. Am. Ed. 2. Ad
rupes Niagara (Agassiz) Hb. ... 28.2....
(NY).
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.
No. 119. Hab. ad rupes Niagarae cataractae (Agassiz). Musci Boreali-Americani sive specimina
exsiccata muscorum in Americae Rebuspublicis Foederatis Detectorum,
Conjunctis studiis W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux. MDCCCLVI. Columbia University, ex Herb. N. B. Ward, 1896
(NY).
[Phascum cuspidatum var. elatum
Hook. et Tayl.
Hab. sandy field near the Falls of Niagara.
Drummond's Musci Americani? No. 6 (NY)]
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.
(As Bartramia fontana var. falcata) Niagara Falls, 1873. Rev. F. Wolle Herbarium of Coe
Finch Austin Purchased by Columbia College, 1885-1887 (NY).
Platydictya minutissimum (Sull.
& Lesq. ex Sull.) Crum
(As Amblystegium minutissimum)
Niagara Falls, N.Y. July 18, 1874 [perhaps Coe F. Austin, as several other
collections were made by him on that day, cf. Barbula unguiculata,
Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum, Didymodon rigidulus,
D. tophaceus]
Pterogonium trichomitrion Hedw.
No. 78. Hab. Trunks of trees in Upper
Canada; about the Falls
of Niagara. Musci
Americani. Thomas Drummond. 1828. Torrey Herbarium (NY)
Rhytidium rugosum (Hedw.) Kindb.
Hab. Niagara Falls. Leg. F. Wolle, 1873. North
American Mosses Herb. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem,
Pa. [An apparent duplicate is
in the herbarium of Coe Finch Austin, NY]
Thuidium abietinum (Hedw.) BSG
Niagara Falls.
Rev. Francis Wolle 1873. Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin
Purchased by Columbia
College, 1885-1887 (NY).
Thuidium abietinum (Hedw.) BSG
(As Hypnum abietinum) No. 413. Hab.
in sylvis Lacus Superioris (cl. Agassiz comm.) etiam in insula Goat Island dicta juxta cataractam Niagarae. Sullivant
& Lesquereux, Musci Boreali-Americani ed 2. Ex Herb Leo Lesquereux, Columbus, Ohio
(NY).
Thuidium abietinum (Hedw.) BSG
(As Hypnum abietinum) No. 280.
Musci Boreali-Americani sive Specimina Exsiccata Muscorum in Americae
Rebuspublicis Foederatis detectorum conjunctis studiis W. S. Sullivant et L.
Lesquereux MDCCCLVI Presentation copy to H. W. Ravenel Purchased from his
estate by L. M. Underwood, 1892 New York Botanical Garden Underwood
Collection, 1914. New York also has a copy
from the herbarium of N. B. Ward, 1896, purchased by Columbia College.]
Thuidium abietinum (Hedw.) BSG
Niagara Falls.
Rev. F. A. Wolle N. American Mosses G. N. Best, Rosemont, N.J.
ex herb. C. C. (NY) [Another specimen from Niagara,
dated Aug. 1873 by Wolle is in the herbarium of Eugene A. Rau, now at NY).
Thuidium pygmaeum BSG
Niagara
(American) Falls, N.Y. On moist limestone and on small limestone pebbles.
Coll. A. T. Beals. Flora of New
York, Herbarium of William H. Wiegmann, M.D. (NY)
Tortella fragilis (Drumm.) Limpr.
(As Barbula fragilis) Table Rock, Niagara Falls [perhaps Canada?] Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin Purchased by Columbia College, 1885-1887 (NY).
Tortella fragilis (Drumm.) Limpr.
(As Barbula fragilis) Hab. Niagara
Falls, July, 1874. North American Mosses. leg. [Coe Finch] Austin
The New York Botanical Garden Moss Herbarium of
Eugene A. Rau Presented by Mr. Rau, 1928 (NY)
Tortella fragilis (Drumm.) Limpr.
(As Barbula fragilis) Hab. Niagara
Falls, July, 1874. leg. Austin.
Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania The New York Botanical Garden Moss
Herbarium of Eugene A. Rau Presented by Mr. Rau, 1928 (NY).
Tortella humilis (Hedw.) Jenn.
(As Barbula caespitosa) Goat Island. Niagara
Falls, N.Y. June.
Coll. A. Barroni Herbarium of Coe Finch Austin
Purchased by Columbia
College, 1885-1887 (NY).
Tortella tortuosa (Hedw.) Limpr.
(As Barbula tortuosa) Niagara Falls. G. W. Clinton, Coll. Herbarium Dr. E. C.
Howe (NY). [Another specimen of Clinton's was
distributed to Princeton University Herbarium by Charles H. Peck of Albany. Another was
collected on Goat Island by Clinton
in June, 1865 - in the herbarium of Coe Finch Austin.]
Tortella tortuosa (Hedw.) Limpr.
(As Barbula fragilis) Sister Id.
no. 1. Niagara Falls, N.Y. August 22d, 1886. AAAS Mg.
E[lizabeth] G B[ritton] & E.A. Rau (NY).
Tortella tortuosa (Hedw.) Limpr.
(As Barbula tortuosa) No. 97b Hab.
ad rupes calcarias insulae Goat Island dictae, juxta cataractam Niagarae [on
calcareous rocks of the island called Goat Island, beside the cataract at Niagara]. Musci Boreali-Americani sive specimina
exsiccata muscorum in Americae Rebuspublicis Foederatis Detectorum,
Conjunctis studiis W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux. MDCCCLVI. Ed. 1. Columbia University, es Herb. N. B. Ward, 1896
(NY).
Tortella tortuosa (Hedw.) Limpr.
(As Barbula tortuosa) Niagara Falls. Reverend F. Wolle, 1873. Herbarium Coe
Finch Austin (NY).
Tortella tortuosa (Hedw.) Limpr.
(As Barbula tortuosa) No. 137. Hab.
ad rupes calcarias insulae Goat Island
dictae, juxta cataractam Niagarae. Musci Boreali-Americani quorum specimina
exsiccata W.S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux ediderunt. Editio secunda, 1865.
Presented to John Torrey by W. S. Sullivant (NY).
Tortula mucronifolia Schwaegr.
(As Barbula mucronifolia) Niagara Falls leg. Rev. F. Wolle, 1873. Herbarium of
Coe Finch Austin Purchased by Columbia College, 1885-1887 (NY).
Tortula mucronifolia Schwaegr.
(As Barbula mucronifolia) Luna Island,
Niagara Falls, N.Y. E. G. Britton. E. A. Rau. Aug. 21,
1886. North American Mosses named and presented by E. G. Britton Aug. 21,
1886 (NY).
Tortula mucronifolia Schwaegr.
(As Barbula mucronifolia) Hab.
banks of Luna Island,
Niagara Falls.
North American Mosses. Aug. 1886. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa.
*Musci Alleghaniensis Sive Spicillegia Muscorum Atque Hepaticarum Quos In
Itinere A Marylandia Usque Ad Georgiam Per Tractis Montium A.D. M DCCC XLIII.
Decerpserunt Asa Gray Et W. S. Sullivant (Interjectis Nonnulis Aliunde
Collectis). Concinnavit Et Exposuit W. S. Sullivant. Columbus, Ohio,
1846 (Sayre, 1971).
** Musci Boreali-Americani, Sive Specimina Exsiccata Muscorum in Americae
Resbuspuboicis Foederatis Detectorum, Conjunctis Studiis W. S. Sullivant Et.
L. Lesquereux. Columbi Ohioensium, 1857 (Sayre, 1971). [Trichostomum
articles, see below]
MOSSES: RECENT RECORDS
Amblystegium fluviatile (Hedw.) BSG
Goat Island, southwestern shore just above Three Sisters Island,
edge root mat of Cornus stolonifera, with Philonotis marchica,
28686, June 9, 1986 (BUF).
Second Sister, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16395
(BUF, NY).
Amblystegium riparium (Hedw.) BSG
Goat Island,
extensive mat on wet soil by river edge, southeast end in mats, Eckel, June
3, 1987 (BUF).
Second Sister, west end, tree roots, wet in high
water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF).
Amblystegium serpens (Hedw.) BSG.
Goat Island, soaking soil by rushing water, low
area, calcareous substrate, NF11, May 5, 1984 (BUF); north slope, 1 Nov.
1988, W.Buck 162 (BUF, NY), 16298 (BUF, NY), Buck 16309 (BUF, NY).
Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum
(Schimp.) Rau & Herv.
Base of Goat Island, spray area of Horseshoe Falls, near river, thin soil over rocks, base
of falls, with Fissidens cristatus, Zander 3475b, Oct. 28, 1979
(BUF).
Amblystegium tenax (Hedw.) C. Jens.
var. tenax
Goat Island, north slope, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16285
(BUF, NY); north slope, west end on brickwork, Eckel, May 20, 1988 (BUF);
just west of the Three Sisters, wet base of Cornus stolonifera
island, with Lythrum, Eckel, June 4, 1988 (BUF), Sept. 9, 1984 (BUF).
Base of Goat Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16356 (BUF, NY).
Terrapin Point, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16440 (NY).
Luna Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16318 (BUF,
NY), Buck 16332 (BUF, NY).
First Sister, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16421 (BUF, NY), 16427 (BUF, NY).
Second Sister, west end, tree roots, wet in high
water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF); west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16382 (NY); east end,
2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16398 (BUF, NY), Buck 16403 (BUF, NY), Buck 16406 (BUF,
NY).
Third Sister, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16436 (BUF, NY); east end, 2
Nov. 1988, Buck 16431 (BUF, NY),
Buck 16433 (BUF, NY).
Amblystegium trichopodium (Schultz)
Hartm.
(As Leptodictyum trichopodium
(Schultz) Warnst.) Third Sister, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16435 (NY).
Amblystegium varium (Hedw.) Lindb.
Goat Island,
just west of the Three Sisters, wet base of Cornus stolonifera
island, with Lythrum, Eckel, June 4, 1988 (BUF).
Base of Goat Island,
spray zone of Horseshoe Falls, near river, soil under boulder, Zander 3478,
Oct. 28, 1970 (BUF).
Anomodon attenuatus (Hedw.) Hueb.Goat Island,
north slope, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16295 (BUF,
NY).
First Sister, west end, P.M. Eckel, 880723, July
8, 1987 (BUF);2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16429 (BUF,
NY).
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.
First Sister, west end, P. M. Eckel, 880726, July
8, 1987 (BUF);1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16335 (BUF,
NY).
Third Sister, on boulder, NE end, Eckel, Sept.
29, 1988 (BUF).
Barbula unguiculata Hedw.
Goat Island, dolomite ballast, SE end, Eckel,
880721, June 4, 1988 (BUF); north slope, facing Luna Island, Eckel, May 2,
1988 (BUF); west parking lot, lawn and wood margin, Eckel & Eckel,
880719, April 23, 1988 (BUF); SW shore, river's edge, shaded thicket, Eckel
& Eckel, 880721, July 8, 1986 (BUF); behind restaurant, base of tree,
with Pottia truncata and Phascum cuspidatum, Oct.
29, 1988 (BUF); weedy bank facing the Three Sisters, Eckel, Sept. 9, 1984
(BUF).
Base of Goat Island, spray area of American Falls, talus, midslope soil, trailside. Zander
3454a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); just outside spray area of Horseshoe
Falls, on rubble, talus slope, Zander 3489, Oct. 28, 1970 (BUF).
Barbula unguiculata fo. apiculata
Goat Island,
north slope, west end on brickwork, Eckel, May 20, 1988 (BUF).
Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.)
Jaeg.
First Sister, west end, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16334 (BUF, NY);
east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16415 (NY).
Second Sister, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16385
(BUF, NY);
east end 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16399 (BUF, NY), Buck 16412 (BUF,
NY).
Third Sister, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16434 (BUF, NY).
Brachythecium rivulare BSG.
Goat Island, dolomite flats above the Horseshoe Falls, Eckel, July 5, 1988 (BUF).
Brachythecium rutabulum (Hedw.) BSG
Goat Island,
margin of woods, edge of west parking lot. With Mnium cuspidatum,
8705226, Aug. 18, 1986 (BUF); wooded slope, north end, west of vehicular
bridge, Eckel, 880708, April 20, 1988 (BUF).
Terrapin Point, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16444 (BUF, NY).
Luna Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16321 (BUF, NY).
Third Sister, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16430 (BUF, NY).
Brachythecium salebrosum (Web.
& Mohr) BSG.
Goat Island, dolomite flats above the Horseshoe Falls (autoicous), Eckel, July 5, 1988 (BUF).
Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Chen
First Sister, west end, on dolomite boulders with
Fissidens taxifolius, Weisia controversa, Carex
eburnea. 87312, Sept. 12, 1986 (BUF); 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16423 (NY);
east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16414 (BUF,
NY).
Bryum argenteum Hedw.
Goat Island,
dolomite ballast, SW end, Eckel, 880723, June 4, 2988 (BUF); May 22, 1988
(BUF).
Base of Goat Island,
spray zone of American Falls, talus, midslope, pathside, thin soil, Zander
3452b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).
Bryum caespiticium Hedw.
Luna Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16325 (BUF, NY).
Bryum cyclophyllum (Schwaegr.) BSG
Crum and Anderson (1981) cite a reference by Lesquereux and James (1884)
to a collection of this species made by George Clinton from "stones wet
by spray, at Niagara Falls."
A specimen that Crum and Anderson found in the herbarium of the University of Colorado
filed under the name Bryum clintonii Aust. from Buffalo, New
York, was found by them to be Bryum cyclophyllum.
Bryum capillare Hedw. var. flaccidum
(Brid.) BSG.
(As Bryum flaccidum Brid.) Terrapin
Point, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16441 (BUF,
NY).
Luna Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16316 (BUF,
NY), Buck 16320 (BUF, NY).
First Sister, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16418 (BUF, NY).
Bryum lisae De Not. var. cuspidatum
(BSG) Marg.
Goat Island,
north slope, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16300 (NY).
Goat Island,
dolomite ballast, southeast end, Eckel, May 22, 1988 (BUF).
Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.)
Gaertn. Meyer & Scherb.
Goat Island,
north side in moist protected cove just west of the vehicular bridge, in
dolomite strata in seepage, with Fissidens grandifrons 86121702
Sept. 12, 1986 (BUF).
Calliergonella cuspidata (Hedw.)
Loeske
Base of Goat Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16353 (BUF, NY),
16358 (NY).
Terrapin Point, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16445 (BUF, NY).
Campylium chrysophyllum (Brid.) J.
Lange
Base of Goat Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16360 (BUF, NY); just outside
spray area of Horseshoe Falls, boulder, thin
soil, with Hyophila involuta, Drepanocladus aduncus,
Zander 3482, Oct. 28, 1970 (BUF).
Second Sister, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16396
(BUF, NY).
Campylium stellatum (Hedw.) C.
Jens.
Base of Goat Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16362 (BUF, NY).
Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.
Goat Island, lawn by west end parking lot, Eckel
& Eckel, April 23, 1988 (BUF); lawn, base of Acer rubrum,
just E of pedestrian bridge, Oct. 28, 1988 (BUF); dolomite ballast, southeast
end, Eckel, May 22, 1988 (BUF); north slope, facing Luna Island, Eckel, May
2, 1988 (BUF).
Base of Goat Island, spray zone of American
Falls, talus, midslope, pathside, thin soil, Zander 3452a, Oct. 28, 1979
(BUF); spray area of American Falls, talus, midslope, soil, trailside, Zander
3454c, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).
First Sister west end, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16337 (BUF, NY).
Second Sister, west end, tree roots, wet in high
water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF); 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16365 (BUF, NY), Buck 16378
(BUF, NY).
Cratoneuron filicinum (Hedw.)
Spruce
Goat Island,
just west of the Three Sisters, wet base of Cornus stolonifera
island, with Lythrum, Eckel, June 4, 1988 (BUF).
Base of Goat Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16351
(BUF, NY), Buck 16355 (BUF, NY), 16361 (BUF, NY); just outside spray area of
Horseshoe Falls, Sandstone wall, Zander 3495a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); spray
area of American Falls, talus, wet rocks, Zander 3443a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF);
spray area of American Falls, talus, wet rocks, with Amblystegium varium,
Zander 3442, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); spray area of American Falls, talus,
midslope, soil, trailside, Zander 3454b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); just outside
spray area of Horseshoe Falls, talus slope, dripping area, rocks, with Didymodon
tophaceus, Zander 3493b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); spray area of Horseshoe
Falls, near river, thin soil, base of falls. Zander 3472, Oct.28, 1979 (BUF).
Terrapin Point, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16447 (BUF, NY).
Second Sister, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16408
(BUF, NY).
Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.)
Schimp.
Second Sister, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16368
(BUF, NY).
Dicranella varia (Hedw.) Schimp.
Base of Goat Island, just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls, midslope, soil over boulders, Zander
3487, Oct. 28, 1970 (BUF).
Didymodon fallax (Brid.) Zand.
Base of Goat Island,
spray zone of American Falls, talus, midslope, pathside, thin soil, Zander
3451, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).
Second Sister, west end, tree roots, wet in high
water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF)
Didymodon rigidulus Hedw.
Third Sister, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16438 (BUF, NY).
Didymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa
Goat Island,
dolomite ballast, SE end, Eckel, 880722, June 4, 1988 (BUF).
Base of Goat Island, just outside spray area of
Horseshoe Falls, on rubble, talus slope, Zander 3491a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF);
just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls,
talus slope, dripping area, rocks, Zander 3493, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).
Second Sister, west end, tree roots, wet in high
water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF)
Drepanocladus aduncus (Hedw.)
Warnst.
Second Sister, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16407
(BUF, NY).
Drepanocladus exannulatus (BSG)
Warnst.
Base of Goat Island, just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls, on rubble, talus slope, with Didymodon
tophaceus, Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, Zander 3488,
Oct. 28, 1970 (BUF).
Encalypta procera Bruch
Base of Goat Island, spray area of American Falls, talus, crevices, rock piles along path.
Zander 3450b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).
Entodon seductrix (Hedw.) C. Muell.
Second Sister west end, on rotten log, 2 Nov.
1988, Buck16372 (BUF, NY).
Eurhynchium hians (Hedw.)
Sande-Lac.
Goat Island, north slope, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16311
(BUF, NY).
First Sister, west end, 2 Nov 1988, Buck 16426A (BUF, NY).
Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.
Base of Goat Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16350 (BUF, NY); spray zone of
American Falls, talus, soil over boulder, Zander 3448, Oct. 28 (BUF); spray
area of American Falls, talus, crevices,
rock piles along path. Zander 3450a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); spray area of
Horseshoe Falls, near River, underside of large boulder, Zander, 3466a, Oct.
28, 1979 (BUF); spray area of Horseshoe Falls, near river, soil under
boulder, Zander 3477, Oct.28, 1979 (BUF).
Terrapin Point, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16446 (BUF, NY).
Fissidens bryoides Hedw.
Goat Island,
central woods on smooth cobble, shade, "minutulus,"with Thuidium
pygmaeum, Eckel, Sept. 9, 1984 (BUF).
Fissidens cristatus Wils. ex Mitt.
Base of Goat Island,
spray zone of Horseshoe Falls, near river, thin soil over rocks, base of
falls, with Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum,
Zander 3475a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).
First Sister, west end, 880724, July 8, 1987
(BUF); (as Fissidens dubius P. -Beauv.) 1 Nov. 1988, Buck
16343A (BUF, NY).
Second Sister, west end, tree roots, wet in high
water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF)
Fissidens grandifrons Brid.
Goat Island,
north side in moist protected cove just west of the vehicular bridge, in
dolomite strata in seepage, with Bryum pseudotriquetrum,
86121702 Sept. 12, 1986 (BUF); June 4, 1986 (BUF).
Base of Goat Island, spray area of American
Falls, talus, thin soil, crevices of rock, Zander 3445a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF);
spray zone of American Falls, talus, thin soil, crevices of rock, with Hymenostylium
recurvirostrum, Zander, 3444b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF). Peck (187...)
reported Chittenango Falls as "our most eastern known station of this
interesting ... moss," Niagara Falls perhaps at the time being the only
other station in New York
State.
Fissidens taxifolius Hedw.
Goat Island, south side, wooded slopes just N of
bridge to First
Sister Island,
on soil, Eckel, Sept. 30, 1988 (BUF); north slope, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16286
(NY).
Luna Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16323 (BUF, NY).
Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.
Goat Island, dolomite ballast, SE end, Eckel,
880722, June 4, 1988 (BUF); May 22, 1988 (BUF); north slope facing Luna Island,
Eckel, May 2, 1988 (BUF).
Goat Island, chink in stone bridge to the First Sister Island,
Eckel, April 26, 1987 (BUF).
Luna
Island, 1 Nov. 1988,
Buck 16330 (NY).
First Sister, west end, 880725, July 8, 1987
(BUF).
Grimmia alpicola Hedw. var. alpicola
Goat Island, south side, wooded slopes just N of
bridge to First
Sister Island,
on boulder, Eckel, Sept. 30, 1988 (BUF).
Bridge from Goat Island
to the First Sister, in depression, with lichens, Eckel, Sept. 29, 1988
(BUF).
Luna
Island (as Schistidium
alpicola (Hedw.) Limpr.) 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16319 (NY).
Second Sister, east end (as Schistidium alpicola
(Hedw.) Limpr.?]]2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16411 (NY).
Homomallium adnatum (Hedw.) Broth.
First Sister, west end, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16342
(NY).
Second Sister, west end, on glacial erratic, 2
Nov. 1988, Buck 16364 (BUF,
NY)
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum
(Hedw.) Dix.
Base of Goat Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16354 (BUF, NY); just outside
spray area of Horseshoe Falls, boulder, thin
soil, midslope. With Tortella fragilis, Hyophila involuta,
Trichostomum crispulum, Zander, 3484d Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); just
outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls, on rubble, talus slope, Zander 3491b,
Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); spray zone of American Falls, talus, thin soil, crevices
of rock, Zander 3444a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); just outside spray area of
Horseshoe Falls, vertical rock face of gorge, with Preissia quadrata,
Zander 3492a, Oct.28, 1979 (BUF); spray area of Horseshoe Falls, near river,
soil under boulder, Zander 3478, Oct.28, 1979 (BUF).
Luna
Island, 1 Nov. 1988,
Buck 16331 (NY).
Hyophila involuta (Hook.) Jaeq.
& Sauerb.
Base of Goat Island, just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls, boulder, thin soil, midslope. with Tortella
fragilis, Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, Trichostomum
crispulum, Zander 3484c Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); just outside spray area
of Horseshoe Falls, boulder, thin soil, Zander 3480, Oct. 28, 1970 (BUF);
spray area of Horseshoe Falls, near river,
thin soil in crevice of boulder, Zander 3469, Oct. 28, 1970 (BUF).
Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.-Beauv.
Second Sister, west end, on glacial erratic, 2
Nov. 1988, Buck 16380 (NY).
Hypnum lindbergii Mitt.
Second Sister, east end, thin soil over dolomite
flats, open area with Salix, Cornus, Betula, Lythrum,
Carices, P.M. Eckel 86121701, Sept. 12, 1986 (BUF); east end, 2 Nov. 1988,
Buck 16404 (BUF, NY); west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16379 (BUF, NY).
Hypnum pallescens (Hedw.) P.-Beauv.
Second Sister, west end, on trunk of Salix,
2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16388 (BUF,
NY).
Leskea polycarpa Hedw.
First Sister, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16419 (BUF, NY).
Mnium affine var. ciliare C.
M.
Goat Island, dolomite flats above the Horseshoe Falls, Eckel, July 15, 1988 (BUF).
Mnium cuspidatum Hedw.
Goat Island, margin of woods, edge of west
parking lot, with Brachythecium rutabulum, 8705227, Aug. 18,
1986 (BUF); SW shoreline, flats east of the Horseshoe Falls, wet hummock,
roots of Cornus, Eckel 880716, June 3, 1987 (BUF).
Second Sister, west end, (as Plagiomnium cuspidatum
(Hedw.) Kop.), 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16390 (BUF,
NY); east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16401 (BUF, NY)
Third Sister, in vug of dolomite boulder, Eckel
& Eckel 8703252, March 3, 1987 (BUF).
Mnium thomsonii Schimp.
First Sister west end, P. M. Eckel, 880720, July
8, 1987 (BUF); 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16338 (NY).
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedw.
Goat Island, south side, wooded slopes just N of
bridge to First Sister Island, on boulder, Eckel, Sept. 30, 1988 (BUF); north
slope, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16301 (BUF, NY).
First Sister, west end, 880721, July 8, 1987
(BUF).
Orthotrichum pumilum Sw.
Goat Island,
north slope, base of maple, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16293 (NY).
Orthotrichum pusillum Mitt.
Goat Island,
north slope, base of maple, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16287 (NY).
Phascum cuspidatum Hedw.
Goat Island,
lawn margin, west parking lot, Eckel & Eckel, April 23, 1988 (BUF);
behind restaurant, base of tree, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF); north side, base of Acer
saccharum, "island of roads,"Nov. 10, 1988 (BUF).
Philonotis marchica (Hedw.) Bridel
Goat Island,
southwest shore just above the Three Sisters, with Amblystegium fluviatile,
wet root masses of Cornus stolonifera, Lythrum salicaria,
inundated, 216686, June 9, 1986 (BUF).
Terrapin Point, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16439 (BUF, NY)
Second Sister, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16394
(NY).
Philonotis muhlenbergii (Schwaegr.)
Brid.
Goat Island, SW shoreline, flats east of the
Horseshoe Falls, wet hummock, roots of Cornus, Eckel, 880718, June 3,
1987 (BUF).
Second Sister, west end, tree roots, wet in high
water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF).
Some doubt exists as to whether this species is distinct from Philonotis
marchica, as noted by Crum and Anderson (1981). The specimens reported
here key to P. muhlenbergii with the key given by those
authors. I thank Dr. Richard Zander
for verifying this identification, with the same qualifications.
Plagiothecium cavifolium (Brid.)
Iwats.
Second Sister, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16370
(NY), Buck 16376 (BUF, NY).
Plagiothecium denticulatum (Hedw.)
BSG
Goat Island,
dolomite ballast, southeastern end just east of the First Sister, Eckel, May
22, 1988 (BUF).
First Sister, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16424 (BUF, NY).
Platygyrium repens (Brid.) BSG.
Second Sister, west end, on rotten log, 2 Nov.
1988, Buck 16369 (BUF, NY).
Pohlia wahlenbergii (Web. &
Mohr) Andr.
Goat Island,
just west of the Three Sisters, wet base of Cornus stolonifera
island, with Lythrum, Eckel, June 4, 1988 (BUF).
Second Sister, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16410
(BUF, NY).
Pottia truncata var. truncata
(Hedw.) Fuernr. ex BSG
Goat Island,
behind restaurant, base of tree, with Phascum cuspidatum, Barbula
unguiculata, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF); eastern meadow, base of Betula
papyrifera, Nov. 10, 1988 (BUF).
Taxiphyllum deplanatum (Bruch &
Schimp. ex Sull.) Fleisch.
First Sister west end, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16345 (BUF, NY); 2 Nov. 1988,
Buck 16426 (BUF, NY).
Tetraphis pellucida Hedw.
Second Sister, west end, tree roots, wet in high
water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF); west end, on rotten log, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck, 16371
(BUF, NY).
Thelia hirtella (Hedw.) Sull.
First Sister, west end, 880727, July 8, 1987
(BUF).
Thuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) BSG
var. delicatulum
Second Sister, west end, tree roots, wet in high
water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF); west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16373 (BUF, NY).
Thuidium pygmaeum BSG.
Goat Island,
central woods on smooth cobble, shade, with Fissidens bryoides,
Eckel, Sept. 9, 1984 (BUF).
Note also a specimen of this species collected earlier in this century by
A. T. Beals also "on small limestone pebbles" in the historical
catalogue.
Thuidium recognitum (Hedw.) Lindb.
First Sister, west end, dolomite boulder top,
west end, 8712251 April 26, 1987 (BUF); 1 Nov. 1988, Buck, 16345A (BUF, NY).
Timmia megapolitana Hedw. var. megapolitana
First Sister, west end, 880719, July 8, 1987
(BUF).
Tortella fragilis (Drumm.) Limpr.
Base of Goat Island, just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls, boulder, thin soil, midslope, with Hyophila
involuta, Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, Trichostomum
crispulum, Zander 3484b Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).
Tortella humilis (Hedw.) Jenn.
First Sister west end, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16347
(NY).
Tortella tortuosa (Hedw.) Limpr.
First Sister west end, 880728, July 8, 1987
(BUF).
Leo Lesquereux collected this species on Goat
Island, and Clinton
indicated it
was "common about Niagara Falls" (Peck, 1866). These
plants are
not common in these localities today.
Tortula mucronifolia Schwaegr.
Luna Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16329 (BUF, NY).
First Sister, east end, 880708, July 8, 1988
(BUF).
First Sister, west end, 880718, July 8, 1987
(BUF).
Third Sister, in small solution vugs in dolomite,
8612338, April 27, 1986 (BUF).
Trichostomum crispulum Bruch in F.
A. Muell.
Base of Goat Island, just outside spray area of
Horseshoe Falls, boulder, thin soil, midslope, with Hyophila involuta,
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, Tortella fragilis,
Zander 3484a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF). NEW STATE RECORD, PREVIOUSLY FOUND IN USA IN SW FIDE STONEBURNER, ARKANSAS
BOWERS???]]
Weisia controversa Hedw.
Luna Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16315 (BUF, NY)
First Sister, no exact location, 1 Nov. 1988,
Buck 16340 (BUF, NY); west end, small population, dolomite
boulder, with Tortula mucronifolia, synoicous, 8706070, 1986.
Weissia hedwigii Crum
Lawn by west parking lot, Eckel & Eckel,
April 23, 1988 (BUF) This is the second locality for this species in New York State (Eckel, 1987; Eckel & Eckel,
1988).
BRYOPHYTES: HEPATICS (LIVERWORTS) HISTORICAL
SPECIMENS
Preissia quadrata (Scop.) Nees
(As Preissia commutata Nees) Three Sisters Islands, Niagara Falls M[arshall]. A.
H[owe]. [leg.] May 17, 1893. Herbarium of Marshall A. Howe The New York Botanical Garden, The M. A.Howe
Collection of Hepaticae Presented by Caroline C. Haynes, Sept. 1915.
Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi
(As Preissia hemisphaerica) Three
Sisters, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Aug. 21, 1886 Comm. E. G. Britton,
1890 Herbarium of Lucien M. Underwood Purchased 1907 (NY).
Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi
(As Preissia hemisphaerica) Goat
Island, Niagara Falls,
Aug. 1886 L[ucien]. M. U[nderwood] [collector] Herbarium of Lucien M.
Underwood Purchased 1907 (NY).
BRYOPHYTES: HEPATICS (LIVERWORTS) NON-HISTORICAL
SPECIMENS
Conocephalum conicum (L.) Dumort.
First Sister, west end, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16337 (BUF, NY).
Second Sister, west end, north side rocks, river
margins [obs. 1988, Eckel].
Lophocolea minor Nees
First Sister, west end, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16344 (BUF, NY).
Second Sister, west end, on rotten log, 2 Nov.
1988, Buck 16386 (BUF, NY).
Preissia quadrata (Scop.) Nees
Base of Goat Island, spray zone of Horseshoe
Falls, near river, underside of large boulder, Zander 3467, Oct. 28, 1979
(BUF); just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls, vertical rock face of
gorge, with Hymenostylium recurvirostum, Zander 3492b, Oct.28,
1979 (BUF).
First Sister, west end, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16349 (BUF, NY).
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