Bryophytes and lichens from the Dyken Pond Environmental Center in the Rensselaer Plateau region of eastern New York were inventoried from 1998 to 2020. Sixteen species of liverworts, 80 species of mosses and 53 species of lichens were identified. Two species of mosses are on the New York State Rare Moss List. A review of specimens listed from the Center on the Consortium of North American Bryophyte Herbaria (CNABH) showed seven additional species of mosses previously identified, but a review of the Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria (CNALH) did not show additional species.

Common reed (Phragmites) interacts with a large suite of other organisms including cryptogams attached to live or dead culm bases. We report an unusual observation of at least ten taxa of lichens and hepatics attached to persistent reed stubble on the swampy bank of freshwater Cypress Creek north of Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida. This bryoid material included the minute, leafy hepatics Microlejeunea globosa, Microlejeunea cf. ulicina, Myriocoleopsis minutissima, and Frullania cf. inflata; and the lichens Arthonia subdiffusa, Chrysothrix xanthina, Opegrapha viridis, Phaeographis sp., Physcia sp., and an unidentified species of Parmeliaceae. These generally corticolous or epiphyllous taxa have not previously been reported from common reed, and suggest unrecognized complexity in both cryptogamic microhabitats and reed epiphytes.

Two new combinations are presented to correct published names in the Pottiaceae and the related family Streptotrichaceae.

Lichens from an unusually large, arborescent runner oak (Quercus pumila) from Miami-Dade County, Florida, were collected and inventoried. A total of 56 lichen species and one lichenicolous lichen species were found, representing 17 families with Graphidaceae bearing the most (14) species. Several species recorded were also recently reported or newly described from South Florida, which has a tropical climate and ecoregion that are distinct in the continental United States. Some lichen species (especially crustose Arthoniaceae and Graphidaceae) are twig specialists not normally found on trunks and branches; therefore, future studies of lichen diversity on single trees should include as much twig material as possible.

Calogaya schistidii (syn. Caloplaca schistidii, Fulgensia schistidii) looks much like a Caloplaca growing on bryophytes over calcareous rock in arctic and alpine habitats but has unusual, 2-celled, non-polarilocular spores, slightly constricted at the middle. This is the first report of the species for North America. The material from British Columbia is described and illustrated, and comments are made on its classification.