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THE BRYOPHYTE COLLECTIONS OF WABASH COLLEGE HERBARIUM (WAB) NOW AT T H E N E W YORK B O T A N I C A L G A R D E N (NY) BENITO C. TAN 1 Tan, Benito C. (New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY 10458-5126). The bryophyte collections of Wabash CollegeHerbarium (WAB) now at the New York Botanical Garden (NY). Brittonia 42: 50-55. 1990.--The bryophyte portion of the Wabash College Herbarium (WAB) consists of the personal herbaria of two faculty members: Drs. R. L. Laubengayer and A. R. Bechtel. Together, there were 1483 packets of bryophyte specimens. Most of the collections are from New York, Indiana, and Puerto Rico. Among them, ten represent new county records for New York mosses. Pseudocrossidium aureum is reported as new to California. Orthotrichurn sordidum and Pylaisiella selwynii are newly identified from a Puerto Rican collection by Laubengayer. The West Indian records of these two species, however, are only doubtfully accepted. In addition, a short biographical sketch is presented for R. L. Laubengayer. T h e W a b a s h College H e r b a r i u m (WAB) contained a b o u t 1483 packets o f bryophytes w h e n it was donated to the N e w Y o r k Botanical G a r d e n (NY) in late 1987. O f these s o m e 300 packets were discarded because o f lack o f locality data. A total o f 1183 packets were salvaged and repacketed a n d are n o w filed in NY. Sixtyeight o f these are hepatics f r o m Switzerland, Indiana, Washington, Illinois, a n d N e w York. The rest are mosses with a wide representation o f localities: U n i t e d States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Bermuda, Switzerland, G e r m a n y , G r e e n land, a n d the Philippines. T h e history o f the W A B H e r b a r i u m was briefly m e n t i o n e d by O s b o r n e a n d G r o n e r t (1932) and dated by Jones and M e a d o w s (1948) to be f r o m 1879. T h e mosses are principally f r o m the personal herbaria o f two e m i n e n t faculty botanists: Drs. Albert R. Bechtel (1882-1955) and Richard L. L a u b e n g a y e r (1902-1966). Both o f these m e n graduated in the early 1920s f r o m the Botany D e p a r t m e n t o f Cornell University, where Dr. Albert L e R o y A n d r e w s was then practicing bryology (Steere, 1962). A n d r e w s was p r o b a b l y responsible for instilling in b o t h m e n an interest in mosses. M a n y o f the collections o f Bechtel a n d L a u b e n g a y e r were m a d e in the vicinity o f Ithaca, N e w York, a n d were identified by Andrews. L a u b e n g a y e r alone contributed a b o u t two-thirds o f the W A B m o s s collections, with a total o f 827 packets. A good portion o f these are f r o m N e w Y o r k a n d were not studied by Ketchledge (1957, 1980), w h o published the u p d a t e d distributional checklist o f N e w Y o r k mosses. Consequently, ten specimens represent new county records for the state m o s s flora (Appendix I). Since L a u b e n g a y e r is not widely k n o w n to the bryological c o m m u n i t y , a short b i o g r a p h y is presented below for a m a n w h o a d d e d significant collections to the m o s s flora o f N e w Y o r k as well as to that o f Puerto Rico. R i c h a r d L. Laubengayer was b o r n in Salinas, Kansas, on 10 S e p t e m b e r 1902. H e received his B.S. degree in 1925 f r o m Cornell U n i v e r s i t y a n d a Ph.D. degree in 1934 f r o m the s a m e institution b y studying the m o r p h o l o g y a n d a n a t o m y o f corn. It was during his post-graduate years at Cornell U n i v e r s i t y (intermittently between 1925 and 1945), w h e n he worked as a teaching assistant and later as an instructor in botany, that he seriously began collecting mosses, often in the c o m -
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pany of Mr. C. Pratt, the university greenhouse gardener, and occasionally with Andrews and others. From 1929 to 1930, he was an exchange professor of botany at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagiiez where he collected about 120 packets of mosses (Appendix II). His Puerto Rican collections were determined mostly by Dr. W. C. Steere who acknowledged his contributions in the Crum and Steere treatment of Puerto Rican mosses (1957). In 1946, Laubengayer moved to Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana, as an assistant professor. He became the Rose Professor of Botany in 1956. He was the curator in charge of the herbarium from 1952 to 1964. During his years in Indiana, he became active in the Indiana Academy of Science, both as a Fellow and as the Editor of its Proceedings (1956-1965). On 8 October 1965, he was elected Honorary President of the Indiana Academy of Science. Laubengayer died on 5 May 1966, in Kingman, Indiana, after a long illness that began in 1963. A necrology appeared in the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science (76: 50-52. 1966, including a photograph). One of Laubengayer's Puerto Rican collections was found to contain specimens of Orthotrichum sordidum and Pylaisiella selwynii, which adds two new generic records to that flora. Nevertheless, the presence of these two species in Puerto Rico appears to be out of the likely range presently known for the two taxa. The herbarium of Laubengayer also includes nearly complete sets of Fascicles 22, 23, 24, 26, and 27 of Holzinger's Musci Acrocarpi Boreali-Americani et Europaei. Of these, Fascicle 27 had its title changed to "Musci Acrocarpi BorealiAmericani et Europaei, etc.," presumably to accommodate four Philippine moss specimens collected by C. Baker. Both Grout (1926, 1927, 1928) and Bartram (1925, 1926) have sufficiently emphasized the scientific value ofHolzinger's exsiccati series. Interestingly, a large part of the Laubengayer collections from New York (334 packets) are labelled as "Andrews collections" and marked with a letter A in one corner of the typewritten packet label. Some of the specimens bear the handwritten annotations of Andrews who identified most of the Laubengayer collections and cited them in his bryophyte flora of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin (1957). Other than these, there is no evidence to substantiate having part of the "Andrews collections" in the Laubengayer herbarium. According to Steere (1962), the Andrews collections were deposited with the Wiegand Herbarium of Cornell University (CU). Few other people contributed to the moss herbarium of Dr. Laubengayer. Aside from C. Pratt cited above, Dr. R. S. Nanz, Messrs. E. Moxley, Geo. Moxley, and J. M. Grant are worthy of mentioning here. R. S. Nanz, originally from New York, was also a graduate student at Cornell University in the early 1920s. He made several collections from various counties in New York, often together with Andrews. He later became the Dean of Carroll College at Waukesha, Wisconsin. The two Moxleys have described their own collections in great detail (G. Moxley, 1928; E. Moxley, 1936, 1937). Lastly, Mr. John M. Grant, a commercial nurseryman, added 116 packets of mosses and 31 packets of hepatics to the Laubengayer herbarium. His collections were marked "ex J. M. Grant Herbarium" and are mainly from Marysville, Snohomish County, Washington, and the Fribourg area of Switzerland. One undetermined specimen made by C. Pratt in 1951 from Joshua Tree National Monument near Twentynine Palms, Riverside County, California, proved to be Pseudocrossidium aureum (Bartr.) Zand., a new record for California. Earlier, Zander (1979) reported its range to include Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico.
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Curiously, none o f the colleclors m e n t i o n e d above, including Laubengayer, and those who contributed to Bechlel's personal herbarium (except Mr. L. Lee), n u m bered their collections. However, each o f the packets has a W A B H e r b a r i u m collection number. The remaining part o f the Wabash moss collections (about 163 packets) was amassed by Bechtel, who was in charge o f the h e r b a r i u m from 1920 to 1952. Although a phanerogamic t a x o n o m i s t and mycologist, Bechtel collected some mosses from New York during his schooling at Ithaca, f r o m Pennsylvania where he grew up, and from the vicinity o f Crawfordsville, Indiana, where W a b a s h College is located. All his b r y o p h y t e collections have a " B " m a r k e d on the upper right-hand corner o f the packet. Two other small collections were included in Bechtel's bryophyte herbarium. One consists o f 12 packets o f mosses dated from 1894 and labelled "ex M. B. T h o m a s H e r b a r i u m , " T h o m a s was a botany faculty m e m b e r al W a b a s h College from I 8 9 t to 1912 (Osborne & Gronert, 1932). His collections represent the oldest moss specimens in the W A B Herbarium. The other contains 32 packets o f Greenland mosses collected by Mr. L. W. Lee, an a l u m n u s o f Wabash College who was assigned to military duty in southwestern Greenland during the winter o f 1942 and 1943. A complete list o f his Greenland moss collection has been published (Lee, 1944). For a small herbarium like WAB, it is rewarding to discover the existence o f four type specimens. They are as follows: G r i m r n i a m o x l e y i R. S. Williams In: Holz., Musci Acro. Bor. Am. Eur. 24: no. 600. 1926. TYPE:U.S.A, CALIFORNIA.LOS Angeles Co,: between Big Rock Creek and Devil's Punch Bowl, 30-31 May 1926, Geo, L. Moxley(ISOTYPES, 2 packets). Fissidens m a n a t e e n s i s G r o u t In: Holz., Musci Acro. Bor. Am. Eur. 24: no. 590. 1926. TYPE:U.S.A. FLO~OA. Manatee Co.: road from Oneco to Arcadia, 9 Mar 1926, A. J. Grout (ISOTYPE, 1 packet). W e i s s i a s i n a l o e n s i s Bartr.
Bryologist 28: 65. 1925. TYPE:MEXICO. SINALOA:Mazatlan, 28 Nov 1924, E. B. Bartram 503 (XSOTYPE, 1 packet). D i c r a n u m f u s c e s c e n s f. pallidiseta J, Bailey ex Holz.
Mnsci Acro. Bor. Am. Eur, 27: no. 653. 1929, TYPE:U.S.A. WAgnnq~To~q,Killilas Co,: Mt, Margaret, bank of Wolf Creek, ! Sep 1924, 3". Bailey (tSOTYPB, ] packet). Tbe new form, whether or not taxonomically sound, apparently is validly published by Holzinger in this ex~iccati series which was widely distributed at the time when a Latin diagnosis was not required by the ICBN. On the packet label is a short English description of the new form as having "light yellowseta and capsule." Since the Puerto Rican moss flora is still incompletely k n o w n and to focus further on the richness o f the West Indian mosses, I have listed separately the n u m e r o u s Puerto Rican specimens from the W a b a s h H e r b a r i u m as A p p e n d i x II. T a x o n o m i c c o m m e n t s are p r o v i d e d in the list where appropriate. A complete listing o f all the moss collections from W A B is deposited in the archives o f the New York Botanical Garden Library for future reference.
Acknowledgments 1 a m grateful to the National Science F o u n d a t i o n for support from N S F G r a n t BSR-8801049 to the N e w York Botanical G a r d e n during the preparation o f this
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paper and the incorporation of the Wabash College Herbarium into the NY H e r b a r i u m 9 D r s . W . B u c k , P. H o l m g r e n , a n d B. T h i e r s k i n d l y c o m m e n t e d o n t h e m a n u s c r i p t 9 D r s . D . V i t t a n d J. L e w i n s k y o f f e r e d v a l u a b l e t a x o n o m i c o p i n i o n o n Groutiella a n d O r t h o t r i c h u m , a n d D r . I n r s S a s t r e - D e J e s f i s k i n d l y c h e c k e d t h e locality information for Puerto Rican collections. Literature
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Andrews, A. LeRoy. 1957. The bryophyte flora of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin, New York. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta. Mem. 352: 1-87. Bartram, E.B. 1925. Prof. Holzinger's Musci Acrocarpi Boreali-Americani et Europaei. Bryologist 28: 68-69. 1926. Musci Acrocarpi Boreali-Americani et Europaei, fascicle no. 23. Bryologist 29: 31-32. Crosby, M . R . 1970. A study ofGroutiella apiculata and G. mucronifolia. Bryologist 73:607-611. Crum, H. A. & L. E. Anderson. 1981. Mosses of eastern North America9 Vols. 1 & 2. Columbia Univ. Press, New York. - & W. C. Steere. 1957. The mosses of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. New York Acad. Sci. Surv. Porto Rico 7: 1-5999 Grout, A.J. 1926. MusciAcrocarpiBoreali-AmericanietEuropaeidistributedbyJohnM. Holzinger. Bryologist 29: 63. 1927. Holzinger's Musci Acrocarpi Boreali-Americani et Europaei. Bryologist 30: 53-54. 9 1928. Holzinger's Musci Acrocarpi Boreali-Americani et Europaei (Fascicle 26, nos. 626650). Bryologist 31: 19. Heden~is, L. 1989. Drepanocladus vernicosus in the Dominican Republic9 Bryologist 92: 128-129. Jones, G. N. & E. Meadows9 1948. Principal institutional herbaria of the United States9 Amer. Midl. Naturalist 40: 724-740. Ketchledge, E . H . 1957. Checklist of the mosses of New York State. Bull. New York State Mus. 363: 1-55. 1980. Revised checklist of the mosses of New York State9 Bull. New York State Mus. 440: 1-19. Lee, L.W. 1944. Some bryophytes of Greenland. Bryologist 47:114-115. Moxley, E.A. 1936. Moss notes from Ontario. Bryologist 39: 22. 1937. Bryological notes from Owen Sound and Bruce Peninsula. Bryologist 40: 89. Moxley, G.L. 1928. Bryological notes from southern California. Bryologist 31: 7-10. Osborne, J. I. & T. G. Gronert. 1932. Wabash College, the first hundred years9 R. E. Banta, Crawfordsville, IN. Steere, W.C. 1962. Albert LeRoy Andrews 1878-1961. Bryologist 65: 25-37. Vitt, D.H. 1973. A revision of the genus Orthotrichum in North America, north ofMexico. Bryophyt. Biblioth. 1: 1-2079 1979. New taxa and new combinations in the Orthotrichaceae of Mexico. Bryologist 82: 1-19. Zander, R . H . 1979. Notes on Barbula and Pseudocrossidium (Bryopsida) in North America and an annotated key to the taxa. Phytologia 44: 177-2149 APPENDIX I NEW COUNTY RECORDS OF NEW Y O R K MOSSES COLLECTED BY R . LAUBENGAYER (RL), C. PRATT (CP), AND OTHERS For each record, the year of collection and the number of specimen packets are placed inside parentheses. Nomenclature follows Crum and Anderson (1981).
Bryohaplocladium microphyllum (Hedw.) Wat.& Iwats.; Wayne Co. (CP, 1928, 1) Dicranum viride (Sull. & Lesq. ex Sull.) Lindb.; Wayne Co. (RL & CP, 1925, 1) Didymodon rigidulus Hedw.; Onondaga Co. (RL, 1927, 1) Fontinalis sullivantii Lindb.; Oswego Co. (RL, 1927, l) Hygroamblystegium noterophilum (Sull. & Lesq.) Warnst.; Onondaga Co. (RL, 1927, l) Hygrohypnum molle (Hedw.) Loeske; Tompkins Co. (CP & RL, 1928, 1) Leskea gracilescens Hedw.; Onondaga Co. (E. Davis & CP, 1926, 1)
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Neckera pennata Hedw.; Lewis Co. (RL, 1927, 1) Platydictya jungermannioides (Brid.) Crum; Tompkins Co. (A. Andrews, RL & CP, 1925, 1) Tomenthypnum nitens (Hedw.) Loeske; Wayne Co. (RL & CP, 1926, 1) APPENDIX II LIST OF PUERTO RICAN MOSSES FROM LAUBENGAYER'S
1929 COLLECTIONS The number in parentheses indicates the number of specimen packets.
Acroporium acestrostegium (Sull.) Crum & Steere; El Yunque (2) Brachythecium stereopoma (Spruce ex Mitt.) Jaeg.; road from Lares to Aguadilla (1) Bryum truncorum Brid.; Las Marias road (1); Yauco (1) Callicostella depressa (Hedw.) Jaeg.; Mayagiiez (2) Campylopus richardii Brid.; E1 Yunque (2) Ca mpylopus subcuspidatus (Ham pc) Jaeg.; El Yunque (l) Crossomitrium orbiculatum C. Muell.; Mayagiiez (1) Cyclo~ctyon albicans (Hedw.) Broth.; Tres Picachos (1); Las Vegas (l); Maricao Hills (1) Cyclodictyon varians (Sull.) Kuntze; Yauco (1); Tres Picachos (1) Dicranella hilariana (Mont.) Mitt.; Mayagiiez (2) Dicranella perrotetti (Mont.) Mitt.; El Yunque (2) Entodon macropodus (Hedw.) C. Muell.; E1 Gigante near Adjuntas (1); Hacienda Limon (1); Yauco (1)
Entodontopsis leucostega (Brid.) Buck & Ireland; Monte Grande (2) Entosthodon bonplandii (Hook.) Mitt.; summit of El Yunque (1) Epipterygium wrightii (Sull.) Lindb.; Tres Picachos (1) Fissidens garberi Lesq. & James; Monte Grande (1); road from Lares to Aquadilla (1) Fissidens pellucidus Hornsch.; Mayagiiez (2) Groutiella apiculata (Hook.) Crum & Steere; Maricao Hills (1); Yauco (1); El Gigante near Adjuntas (1); El Yunque (1). Crum and Steere 0957) distinguished Groutiella mucronifolia (Hook. & Grey.) Crum & Steere from G. apiculata by its often retuse to broadly rounded leaf apices, as well as by the shorter mucro at leaf apex and shorter border at leaf base. Crosby (1970) reported that these differences are unreliable for species delineation. He concluded that the widespread species in the West Indies should be called G. mucronifolia, which differs from true G. apiculata in having a much smaller plant size. He further stated that G. apiculata is known to him only from the type at NY. Unfortunately, the type specimen of Orthotrichum apiculatum is not available at NY for study. However, there is at NY a second collection of the large sized G. apiculata made by J. Weir (no. 234) from around Bogot~, Colombia, and in addition, several Brazilian specimens so named that are of intermediate sizes. Comparing all these specimens, I fail to see any character differences between the two taxa. My observation supports the synonymy published by Vitt (1979), with G. apiculata as the accepted earlier name. Groutiella husnotii (Schimp. ex Besch.) Crum & Steere; Tres Picachos (1); E1 Gigante near Adjuntas (1) Hemiragis aurea (Brid.) Ren. & Card.; E1 Gigante near Adjuntas (1); E1 Yunque (3) Isopterygium tenerum (Sw.) Mitt.; Maricao Hills (1) Leucobryum martianum (Hornsch.) Hampe; E1 Yunque (1) Leucodontopsis geniculata (Mitt.) Crum & Steere; Las Vegas (3); E1 Gigante near Adjuntas (1) Leucotoma schwaneckeanum (Hampe) E. Britt.; Maricao Hills (1) Leucoloma serrulatum Brid.; El Yunque (1) Macromitrium cirrosum (Hedw.) Brid.; E1 Gigante near Adjuntas (2); El Yunque (2); Tres Picaehos
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Macromitrium perichaetiale (Hook. &Grev.) C. Muell.; El Yunque (2) Macromitrium scoparium Mitt.; E1 Yunque (1) Neckeropsis disticha (Hedw.) Kindb.; Monte Grande (1); Las Vegas (1); Maricao (1) Octoblepharum albidum Hedw.; Mayagiiez (1) Orthotrichum sordidum Sull. & Lesq. ex Aust.; limestone cave near Lares (1). The specimen agrees well with the North American materials of O. sordidum (Vitt, 1973; Crum & Anderson, 1981) except that the calyptra has papillose hairs instead of a few smooth hairs (Lewinsky, pers. comm.). The Puerto Rican specimen also is epilithic whereas O. sordidum is generally seen growing on tree trunks. Phytogeographically, the local population is far south of the range presently known for O. sordidum (Crum & Anderson, 1981). Adding to the confusion is the presence of Pylaisiella selwynii (Kindb.) Crum, Steere & Anderson inside the same packet. This species of Pylaisiella is likewise known primarily in northern North America with a few reports from Mexico. It could be that the specimen actually came from New York, where Laubengayer collected mosses for many years before
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moving to Puerto Rico, or the Puerto Rican populations may have been introduced accidentally by man in this frequently visited site. Until confirmed by a second collection, the two taxa, which represent new generic and species records for the island flora, should be accepted with reservation. A parallel case involving Drepanocladus vernicosus (Lindb. ex C. Hartm.) Warnst. was published recently by Heden~is (1989), who reported the species from the Dominican Republic. The record also is more than 2200 km south of the southern limit of the species range in North America. Papillaria nigrescens (Hedw.) Jaeg.; Yauco (1) Philonotis glaucescens (Hornsch.) Par.; Maricao (1) Philonotis sphaerocarpa (Hedw.) Brid.; Yauco-Lares road (A. Miller, 1928, 1) Philonotis uncinata (Schwaegr.) Brid.; Yauco-Lares road (A. Miller, 1928, 1); Las Maria (l); road from Lares to Aquadilla (1); Maricao (1) Phyllogoniumfulgens (Hedw.) Brid.; Maricao (2); El Gigante near Adjuntas (1) Pilotrichella flexilis (Hedw.) Aongstr.; Tres Picachos (l) Pilotrichidium callicostatum (C. Muell.) Jaeg.; E1 Yunque (H. & F, Clum, 1925, 1) Pogonatum tortile (Sw,) Brid.; E1 Yunque (H. & F. Clum, 1925, l) Pohlia apiculata (Schwaegr.) Crum & Anderson; E1 Gigante near Adjuntas (1) Porotrichum insularum Mitt.; El Yunque (H. & F. Clum, 1925, l) Pseudocryphaea domingensis (Brid.) Buck; Las Marias (1); Aquadilla (1) Pyrrhobryum spiniforme (Hedw.) Mitt.; Yauco (1); E1 Yunque (2) Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) Jaeg.; E1 Gigante near Adjuntas (2) Schoenobryum coffeae (C. Muell.) Manuel; E1 Gigante near Adjuntas (1) Sematophyllum subpinnatum (Brid.) E. Britt.; Mayag/iez (2); Maricao (3); E1 Gigante near Adjuntas (4); Yauco (1); E1 Yunque (1); Tres Picachos (1); Las Vegas (2) Sematophyllum xylophyllum Mitt.; Maricao (1) Syrrhopodon incompletus vat. berteroanus (Brid.) Reese; E1 Yunque (1) Syrrhopodon parasiticus (Brid.) Besch.; Maricao (1) Syrrhopodon prolifer Schwaegr.; Yauco (2) Taxithelium planum (Brid.) Mitt.; El Yunque (3); Mayagiiez (2); Las Vegas (2) Thuidium involvens (Hedw.) Mitt.; Monte Grande (2) Thuidium urceolatum Lor.; Maricao Hills (4); E1 Gigante near Adjuntas (1); Mayagiiez (1); E1 Yunque (1); Tres Picachos (1); Yauco (1)
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