1908]  Fernald,— Lists of New England Plants,— XXI 143 
by C. F. Parker in 1868 in bogs at East Washington, New Hampshire. 
Several other coastal plain and pine-barren species,— Aletris farinosa, 
Ranunculus laxicaulis, Sclerolepis uniflora, ete. — reach extreme 
northern and inland stations in swamps or on sandy shores of 
Cheshire and adjacent counties in New Hampshire and most of them 
occur in the coastal region of southern New England. Rynchospora 
Torreyana, therefore, should be watched for in southeastern Massa- 
chusetts, Rhode Island, and eastern Connecticut. 
Scirpus Clintonii Gray is abundant on alluvial terraces and even 
on rocky banks throughout the calcareous-slate region of northern 
and central Maine; and it is also in northern and western New York. 
The plant, which is somewhat intermediate in appearance between 
S. planifolius and S. caespitosus, should be sought in northern New 
Hampshire and Vermont. 
S. Hallii Gray is one of the most local members of the genus. It 
has long been known from the shores of Winter Pond, Winchester, 
Massachusetts, but from no other station northeast of Georgia. Its 
association at Winter Pond with such plants of southern New England 
as Scleria reticularis, Eleocharis Engelmanni, var. detonsa, Crotalaria 
sagittalis, Cassia nictitans, Rotala ramosior, Coreopsis rosea, etc. indi- 
cates the probability that it will be found about sandy-bottomed ponds 
in other portions of southern New England. 
S. heterochaetus Chase, known from Lake Champlain, Vermont, 
and from the Charles River in eastern Massachusetts, is to be sought 
throughout western and southern New England, particularly at 
sheltered margins of lakes and quiet pools. 
S. nanus Spreng. is undoubtedly to be found on the salt marshes 
of New Hampshire. It is abundant in southern Maine and in eastern 
Massachusetts. 
S. occidentalis, (Watson) Chase is frequent in Maine and Vermont 
especially near the margins of the larger lakes, and it is found locally 
in eastern Massachusetts. Further observations will probably show 
_ it to be widely distributed in New England. 
S. pauciflorus Lightf. is found on wet limy rocks or marly shores at 
several stations in northern and north-central Maine and in northern 
Vermont. It should be watched for in such situations in northern 
New Hampshire. 
S. rufus (Hudson) Schrad. is one of the characteristic turf-forming 
plants of salt marshes about the Gulf of St. Lawrence where it is 
