130 Rhodora [Jury 
LYCOGALA MINIATUM Pers. and HEMITRICHIA CLAVATA Rost. are our 
most widely distributed species. These species are found from July to 
December on tree stumps and decayed bark. 
STEMONITIS FUSCA Roth and TRICHIA FALLAX Pers. are other very 
common species found in late summer and autumn on twigs, leaves 
and logs. 
LIQUIDAMBAR AT GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT. — Both in the Berzelius 
Catalogue of Plants within Thirty Miles of New Haven and in Bishop's 
Catalogue of Plants of Connecticut, Liguidambar Styraciflua, L., is 
recorded as growing at Greenwich, Connecticut, with the further note 
that this appears to be the northeastern limit of its natural growth. 
There is no specimen from the State in the herbarium of the late Pro- 
fessor Eaton, and up to November, 1898, I had never had any more 
definite information in regard to this station; but happening to pass 
through Greenwich in that month, I came upon it accidentally. 
On May 1, 1899, I revisited the spot in company with a friend. We 
had no difficulty in finding the Liquidambar again, but were somewhat 
disappointed that the flowers were immature. I took, however, a quan- 
tity of budded branchlets, which were placed in water and developed 
into fair specimens. 
The Liquidambar grows in a piece of marshy woodland about a half 
mile southwest from the railway station at Cos Cob, and is easily found 
by taking the first road crossing the track west of this station and fol- 
lowing it south a little less than a half mile. It grows in considerable 
abundance over an area of at least five or six acres and reaches a size 
(by estimate) of two feet in diameter and seventy feet in height. The 
march of “improvement,” in the shape of summer residences and 
their grounds, is close upon it, but it is to be hoped that the swampy 
nature of the ground may preserve to New England a station for the 
natural growth of this beautiful tree. 
Owing to the earliness of the season and limited time for 
botanizing, little else of interest was observed on this trip. At Mianus 
the cliff by the Mianus River was white with Arabis rata, L., 
which appear to be scarce in Connecticut except on the trap ridges 
of the Connecticut valley; and nearer Stamford was a tree of Pinus 
