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Beach in East Lyme, and has since then been met with in several other 
towns of the county. It is not, however, common. 
EATONIA NITIDA (Spreng.) Nash (Æ. Dudleyi Vasey). — Discovered 
by the writer in 1890 in Lyme, as reported in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 
xviii, 5, 153. It has proved to be not rare in rocky woodlands through- 
out the county. It is not, I believe, recognized as a New England plant 
except in Scribner's American Grasses, where its northeastern range be- 
gins at Rhode Island. 
BROMUS HORDEACEUS L. Has been collected in New London at 
various times since 1889, though New York is the northern and eastern 
limit given in the manuals. 
CAREX STYLOFLEXA Buckley (C. laxiflora styloflexa Boott). — This 
species also should have a place in the New England flora, though its 
recorded distribution in Britton & Brown's Illustrated Flora limits it to 
southern New York and Pennsylvania. I have a few specimens from 
Selden's Neck in Lyme collected in 1890. 
LEMNA PERPUSILLA Torr. — Occurs frequently in this region, being 
found as a rule in running water, growing in the form of densely tangled 
skeins or mats and usually quite submerged. The identification rests 
upon the authority of the late Dr. Thomas Morong to whom I sent 
sterile material in 1892. I have never found flower or fruit. “New 
York and New Jersey " is the range commonly assigned this species. 
JUNCUS ACUMINATUS DEBILIS (A. Gray) Engelm. — Has been found 
by the writer at two points in this county, one in Ledyard, the other in 
Waterford. It has also been reported from Maine by Mr. Parlin as 
noted in appendix to Gray's Manual 6th ed., which is the only other 
New England record known to me. 
MuscarRI RACEMOSUM Mill. — In New London has escaped into 
lawns where has been well established for years. So far as I know it is 
not yet recognized as a member of the New England flora. 
GYROTHECA CAPITATA (Walt.) Morong (ZacAzanthes tinctoria El). 
— The occurrence of the “paint-root” on the shores of Pataguan- 
set Lake in East Lyme, where it was discovered by the writer in 
1897, furnishes another interesting instance of a connecting link 
between the northern and more southerly stations of a rare and local 
plant. 
GEUM FLAVUM (Porter) Bicknell. — Not rare in this vicinity. New 
York is the northeastern limit given in the Illustrated Flora. 
