1899] Andrews, —Some plants of central Connecticut 103 
abundant at “ Beulah ” and along the Kennebec, Winslow; Aster tar- 
diflorus, L., by the Messalonskee, Waterville; Sagina procumbens, L., 
river-banks ; and ZL/afine americana, Arn., very abundant in mud by 
the Messalonskee. 
Tofieldia glutinosa, Willd., collected in 1829 by J. W. Robbins, “on 
the banks of the Kennebec, at Teconic Falls,” but not since seen, was 
searched for by many members; but not until after the adjournment 
of the regular meetings was the plant found by E. B. Chamberlain and 
the writer, a single specimen growing in the midst of Rhynchospora 
capillacea, var. leviseta, thus reéstablishing Robbins’s station. Other 
interesting plants collected on the excursions were Solidago humilis, 
Pursh, by the Kennebec, Waterville and Winslow ; Myriophyllum alter- 
niflorum, DC., Great Pond, Belgrade; Astragalus alpinus, L., by the 
Kennebec, Winslow; and /Zalenia deflexa, Griseb., var. heterantha, 
Fernald (Ruopona, i. 37), by a spring, “ Beulah.” 
SOIL-PREFERENCES OF SOME LESS USUAL VASCULAR 
PLANTS IN CENTRAL CONNECTICUT. 
L. ANDREWS. 
As soils and altitude have much to do with the distribution of 
plants the town of Southington, situated in Central Connecticut, pos- 
sesses from its varied conditions advantages in a botanical way prob- 
ably not surpassed by any area of its extent in the state. With an 
altitude ranging from 100 to 1000 feet, it possesses soils which on one 
side extend into the granite region of western Connecticut and on the 
other cover extensive trap dykes, while the intermediate section, resting 
upon Triassic sandstone, has a covering of drift varying from heavy 
clay loams and gravel hills to the most barren shifting white sands. 
That this diversity of soil conditions favors an equal variety of vegeta- 
tion is shown by the fact that one thousand species have already been 
collected within this area of thirty-six square miles. 
In the following notes are mentioned some of the more interesting 
plants of Southington and its immediate vicinity. 
Populus montlifera, Ait., the cottonwood, although seeming to prefer 
damp locations, has been found on Meriden Mountain growing among the 
rocks at an altitude of five hundred feet. The beautiful little orchid Zz- 
