146 Rhodora [JuLy 
vate, usually lanceolate to linear, commonly broadest at the base, 
usually acute and frequently entire: involucre 10-14 mm. long: 
mature achenes 5-6 mm. long: pappus 5-7 mm. long. 
HIERACIUM FLORIBUNDUM Wimm. & Grab. This is the common 
introduced Hieracium of the fields and roadsides in southeastern 
Washington County, Maine, and has been collected as far east as St. 
John, New Brunswick. It is now established in great abundance 
around Passamaquoddy Bay, but was first recorded from America by 
Dr. Kennedy (Rropona, iv. 25) who found it sparingly at Cutler in 
1901. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 84. 
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Fig. a. Montia fontana, plant and seed, natural size, and seed X 15. 
Fig. b. M. rivularis, portion of plant and seed, natural size, and seed X 15. 
Fig. c. M. lamprosperma, plant and seed, natural size, and seed X 15. 
NOTES ON CONNECTICUT MOSSES. 
G. E. NIcHo.s. 
SiNCE the publication a little over a year ago of *"The Bryophytes 
of Connecticut”! a number of additions have been made to the 
mosses known to occur within the state and, as will appear in the 
present paper, it has been found necessary to make several changes 
in the list of species given in the catalogue. 
REVISION OF THE EPHEMEREAE. 
During the past fall the writer devoted especial attention to the 
study of the Ephemereae, a sub-family of the Funariaceae which, ac- 
cording to the classification of Brotherus,’ contains the two North 
American genera Nanomitrium Lindb. (= Micromitrium Aust.‘ 
1 Evans, A. W., and Nichols, G. E. Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 11. 1-203. 
Hartford. 1908. 
? Engler-Prantl’s Natürliche Pflanzenfamilien Part 1. 3:512. 1903. 
3 Notis, pro Fauna et Flor. Fenn. 13:408. 1874. 
4 Musci Appal. Exsic. 1870. 
