30 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
NOTES ON CONNECTICUT PLANTS. 
C. H. BrissELL. 
AGROSTIS CANINA L. Hillside on border of woods, Sharon (C. 
A. Weatherby, R. W. Woodward & C. H. Bissell). First found in an 
autumnal state with decumbent culms and forming clusters of leaves 
at each joint giving the plant a most peculiar appearance. 
Scrrpus SMITHI Gray. Gravelly shore of Pocotopaug Lake, : 
Chatham (R. W. Woodward & C. H. Bissell). 
SCIRPUS SMITHII Gray, var. SETOSUS Fernald. Wet alluvial soil 
below the dam at Beach Pond, Voluntown (C. H. Bissell). This 
variety has not before been reported from Connecticut. 
HEMICARPHA MICRANTHA (Vahl) Pax. Sandy beaches, Pocotopaug 
Lake, Chatham, and Congamond Lakes, Suffield (R. W. Woodward & 
C. H. Bissell). Both these localities are extensions of range for this 
rare little sedge. 
RYNCHOSPORA CAPILLACEA Torr. Open grassy moist border of 
Beaslick Pond, Salisbury (Mrs. C. S. Phelps). 
The margin of Beaslick Pond is of botanical interest because there, 
within a space not more than a rod square, can be found growing 
three very rare sedges, Rynchospora capillacea, not before reported 
from Connecticut, Carex Crawei, known in the state only from this 
locality and rare in any case so far south, and Scleria verticillata 
hardly known elsewhere in New England. This last named species 
was formerly known at another locality in Salisbury but has been 
destroyed there by flooding from a dam. 
CAREX AESTIVALIS M. A. Curtis. Hillside woods and shaded road- 
sides, scattered over quite an extent of territory, Norfolk (R. W. 
Woodward & C. H. Bissell). This rare sedge was first found in Con- 
necticut by A. E. Blewitt in June, 1909, in Salisbury; in Sept., 1909, 
Prof. M. L. Fernald found it in Colebrook, so it is now known from 
three localities, all in the northwestern part of the state. 
CAREX NOVAE-ANGLIAE Schwein. Hillside, in rocky woods, pre- 
ferring the more open places, Norfolk, near Grant's Station (R. W. 
Woodward & C. H. Bissell). The plant was plentiful over a section 
of perhaps an acre in extent; it has not before been reported from the 
state. 
