36 Rhodora [ FEBRUARY 
The Larch, Zavix Americana, is found in the swamps in Brook- 
field and New Milford, and thence northward. The Berzelius list 
records it from Danbury, the most southerly point I am aware of. 
In the Berzelius list the Black Spruce, Picea nigra, Link, was given 
as follows: * Formerly at Wading River, L. I. ‘Twenty years ago 
there was quite a clump of this spruce near Waterbury, but the trees 
were all killed by fire. H. J. Bassett." 
Just south of Botsford station on the Berkshire Division railroad, 
partly in the town of Newtown and partly in Monroe, the railroad 
passes through a large swamp, at an elevation of about four hundred 
feet. In winter the spruce trees can be seen from the train. I have 
never explored the swamp thoroughly, but once I climbed a hill to the 
west where I could overlook it. Its area appears to be about a square 
mile, and the spruces are scattered in various parts of it. A few speci- 
mens secured show that it is P. migra, Link. This is perhaps the 
most southerly station in New England. 
On the north shore of Spectacle Ponds, in the town of Kent, at an 
elevation of 1,200 feet, there are a few trees of this species growing in 
a sphagnum swamp. ‘They were much damaged by an ice-storm two 
winters ago. 
Among the Oaks I have seen Quercus stellata, Wang, on the sea- 
shore at Milford sparingly, but not away from the coast. Q. macro- 
carpa l have not found in the State of Connecticut; but a few miles 
over the line in Massachusetts it occurs near a highway a little west of 
Van Deusenville station ; also a few saplings near Stockbridge. It is 
recorded from Connecticut in Bishop’s List of Connecticut Plants. 
Q. Muhlenbergia occurs on the limestone formation in the neighbor- 
hood of Kent. Q. palustris, Du Roi, is an abundant tree in the low 
grounds in the vicinity of the coast, but is not common in the northern 
part of the State, although I have seen it at New Milford and 
Canaan. 
Q. ilicifolia, Wang, occurs abundantly on the higher exposed places 
of barren hills all through the region. Near the summit of Long 
Mountain, in the town of New Milford, in a small swamp, are some 
very large specimens, one of which surpasses any I have heard of. It 
comes from the ground with a single trunk measuring forty-four inches 
in circumference. At about fourteen inches from the ground it divides 
into two branches, the larger of which measures twenty-nine inches 
round. The branches soon become horizontal and spread widely. 
