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Sysrinchium angustijolium Mill. Common in meadow land. 
Apparently common throughout the state. Reported from Provi- 
dence [Rhodora 1: 106]. 
Cerastium arvense L. Few specimens in cultivated areas. Re- 
ported from Cumberland and Providence [Plants of Rhode Island, 
J. L. Bennett, 1885]. 
Funkia ovata Spreng. Common in cultivated areas. Reported 
from Providence [Rhodora 1: 47]. 
Sparganium americanum var. androcladum (Engelm.) Fernald & 
Eames [Rhodora 9:87]. Common in very swampy ground. Re- 
ported from Providence, Cranston, Warwick [Rhodora 1: 105]. 
Ғатл, River, MASSACHUSETTS. 
THE TYPE LOCALITY OF SPHAGNUM FAXONII. 
HARLEY Harris BARTLETT. 
Tur March number of RHODORA contains a translation from 
Hedwigia of the original description of Sphagnum Faxonii Warnst. 
There only the following meagre information is given as to the origin 
of the type specimen: “Massachusetts, 16 Sept., 1891, leg. Faxon.” 
Warnstorf has been so kind as to send me part of his type material 
in order that I might match it with more accurately labeled specimens 
in the duplicate collection of Faxon Sphagna at the Harvard Crypto- 
gamic Herbarium, and thus gain accurate knowledge as to the type 
locality. Search for plants collected on 16 Sept., 1891, proved success- 
ful,— enough were found to prove beyond peradventure that on that 
date Mr. Faxon collected at Streeter Pond in Lisbon, New Hampshire. 
Furthermore, on that date he collected no peat moss more closely 
allied to Sphagnum cuspidatum (the nearest affinity of Sphagnum 
Faxonii is with this species) than Sphagnum recurvum var. parvi- 
folium. It seems necessary to conclude, therefore, that both the 
locality and date given in Warnstorf's article are incorrect. 
An examination of all the Sphagnum cuspidatum and allied species 
in the Faxon collection showed but one number which matched the 
type material of Sphagnum Faxonii sent by Warnstorf, namely no. 
1049, collected at Sunken Heath, Mt. Desert Island, Maine, 29 June, 
