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ing to True ! it seems to be replaced in the West by D. strictum Schleich. 
FUNARIA FLAVICANS Michx. Grassy ground along a brook, Glas- 
tonbury (Miss Frances Wilson, 1892). The writer’s determination 
has been verified by Mr. R. S. Williams. New to New England. 
It is not always easy to differentiate between this species and the 
common F. hygrometrica. Mr. Williams? states that it may be 
distinguished “by the average smaller size, erect pedicel, more pointed 
leaves, as well as the less furrowed capsule, which matures a week or 
two earlier — in June — than in F. hygrometrica.” F. flavicans is an 
essentially southern species. It has been collected in practically all 
of the states bordering on the coast from Connecticut to Florida, 
and ranges westward to Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona. The present 
station represents an extension in its known distribution northward 
of about fifty, eastward of about one hundred miles. 
RACOMITRIUM FASCICULARE (Schrad.) Brid. Steep, gneissoid rocks 
in the bed of a mountain brook, altitude 2000 feet, Salisbury (G. E. 
N., 1910). Recorded from all of the New England States except 
Rhode Island. In this case it grows associated with R. aciculare, 
our only other Connecticut species of the genus. In the field it is 
easily separated from this by its more prostrate habit, dirty, yellowish 
green color, and the more slender branches beset with numerous 
very short lateral branchlets. R. fasciculare is distributed through- 
out northern North America, extending south to Virginia, Minnesota, 
and Montana; Europe; Asia. The capsules ripen in spring. 
LESKEA GRACILESCENS Hedw. On decaying wood, tree trunks, 
stones, and the ground. Woodbury (Eaton), Putnam (A. H. Graves 
and E. C. Miller), Hamden (O. D. Allen), New Haven (Kleeberger, 
1874), North Haven (G. E. N.), New London (Spaulding). The 
North American species of Leskea have been carefully revised by 
Dr. G. N. Best? to whom the writer is greatly indebted for the de- 
termination of a large amount of Connecticut material of this genus 
recently submitted to him for examination. The majority of the 
specimens quoted above have heretofore been included under either 
L. obscura‘ or L. polycarpa. According to Dr. Best L. gracilescens is 
also known from Vermont and Massachusetts and is doubtless quite 
common in the southern portion of New England. This species is 
1 Bryologist 2:26. 1899. 2 Bryologist 4:9, 10. 1901, 
3 Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 30 : 463-482. pls. 15, 16. 1903. 
*Connecticut material distributed under this name by Grout, N. Amer. Musci 
Pleuro. Exsic., No. 331, should be referred to L. gracilescens (fide Best). 
