1903] Bissell, — Botanical Trip to Salisbury, Connecticut 33 
smooth on the lower surface instead of with the usual covering of 
dense tomentum. 
In a shaded part of the swamp were found a few plants of Galium 
tinctorium, L., var. labradoricum, Wiegand. This was found two 
days later in greater quantity in a similar swamp in Sheffield, Massa- 
chusetts. A deep tangle of the swamp under larch trees gave speci- 
mens of the rare little Carex tetanica, Schk., var. Woodii, Bailey, the 
first collection of it in New England. Shrubs of Betula pumila, 
L., with young fruit were frequent while a few small ones of Rham- 
nus alnifolia, L'Her., were in flower. A ditch nearby yielded Carex 
aguatilis, Wahl., also new to the state. In a bit of wet springy pas- 
ture was growing a peculiar form of Carex granularis, Muhl., with 
short, nearly prostrate culms and the whole plant a very light green 
in color. 
In open woods on limestone ledges some time was spent in 
collecting, for distribution by the Gray Herbarium, sets of Carex 
eburnea, Boott, and Senecio obovatus, Muhl. Fine fruiting plants of 
Hepatica acutiloba, DC., were found here, some with a part or all of 
the three leaf lobes again divided or incised making the leaf appear 
to be five- to nine- instead of three-lobed. 
In a swampy part of some pine woods two or three plants of 
Ranunculus abortivus, L., var. eucyclus, Fernald, were found; and in 
the same place was seen a leaf of Conioselium canadense, Torr. & Gray, 
a species not before noted in Connecticut. The writer, later in the 
season secured specimens of this from the same town but at a differ- 
ent station. A limestone ledge with northern exposure showed 
abundance of Avena striata, Michx., while growing beside a spring 
was a beautiful clump of Carex teretiuscula, Good., var. ramosa, 
Boott, another new form for the state. The discovery in a meadow- 
pasture of an interesting form of yellow-flowered Oxalis, which proved 
to be O. filipes, Small, closed the day's collecting. 
One half day was spent exploring a swamp and fields on the 
borderline where Connecticut joins New York. In the swamp 
was growing in abundance Carex Schweinitsit, Dewey; and a wet 
meadow near by yielded Carex rostrata, Stokes, two more species 
added to the state list. In the swamp, growing in dense tufts, was 
a form of Carex znterior, Bailey, with dark brown scales and fruit, 
giving the plant a peculiar blackish appearance. Here also were 
found shrubs of what appeared to be .Sa/ix lucida, Muhl., but with 
