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Correspondence of Rhoda Waterbury and
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Correspondence of Rhoda Waterbury and G. W. Clinton 1865 - 1867 Edited
by P. M. P.O. Box 299, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, 63166‑0299;
and Research Associate, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York, 14204.
Email: mailto:patricia.eckel@mobot.org December 1866 A
letter to Clinton from Charles Peck (Rhoda did not write during this month): Vol.
3 No. 210 [M 12]
My
Dear Sir; The
little “Fissidens on clay,” which you
sent I consider F. minutulus, Sulliv.
F. exiguus has no pellucid border to the leaf: your
specm. have. F. minutulus and F. bryoides both
have the pellucid border but the former is dioecious,
the latter, monoecious. F. bryoides
generally grows on ground while F. minutulus is
said to grow on rocks, but as I can not find a single male flower in your specims. I think it is F. minutulus
in spite of its place of growth. The male flowers are generally plenty and axillary in F. bryoides, by
which, with its rather larger size, I separate it from F. minutulus. The
little F. exiguus was collected in Schoharie and
sent me by Miss R. Waterbury. My remark concerning it was made because I
thought she might have sent you specms.under the
erroneous name. I first gave it for her. I put the bit with your specimens
that in case she had done so you might see to what I referred. I send a label
for it, if there is enough of it to make a specm.
Also a bit of F. bryoides.
Very truly yours
Charles
H. Peck Judge
G. W. Clinton Recd
Dec. 22 Peck strongly advocated the close association
of a particular moss species with its substrate as an indicator of its
identity. As indicated elsewhere, These two species are presently combined in
a Fissidens bryoides Hedw. complex (H. Crum & L.
Anderson, Vol. 1 Mosses of Eastern North America, 1981, Columbia University Press. The
sexuality of specimens in the complex is dioicous, synoicous or autoicous, the latter with male buds basal
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