46 Rhodora [Marcu 
one of the largest of the hypnoid mosses and is not likely to be mis- 
taken for any other species. It ranges throughout northern North 
America, extending south to northern Connecticut and Ohio, Michi- 
gan, and Montana; Greenland; Europe; Asia. Fruit rare, maturing 
in summer. 
In a previous paper! the writer has discussed the occurrence of 
Philonotis caespitosa in this state. Recently there has appeared 
Dismier’s revision of the American species of the genus ? in which two 
new varieties of this variable species are described,— var. compacta 
and var. heterophylla. The former is quoted from Connecticut only — 
Hamden and Ledyard (G. E. N.). No localities are given for var. 
heterophylla. It should be cited from Connecticut — Huntington 
(G. E. N.) — and Colorado (Holzinger). Var. laxa (Warnst.) Loeske 
& Warnst. is also credited to Connecticut — Easton (Eames). 
The following additional localities for species heretofore recorded 
from but one Connecticut station should be noted: Nanomitrium 
Austini, Windsor and Stafford (G. E. N.); Barbula fallax, North 
Haven? (G. E. N.); Orthotrichum pumilum, Vernon (Miss Lorenz); 
Pterigynandrum filiforme, Meriden and Woodbridge (G. E. N.); 
Camptothecium nitens, Brookfield (A. W. Evans and Miss Lorenz); 
Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus, Stafford (G. E. N.) Polytrichum 
alpinum, Stafford (G. E. N.); Polytrichum strictum, Putnam (A. H. 
Graves and E. C. Miller). 
Two incidental observations may be of interest, since they concern 
Connecticut species. The first has to do with the habitat of Drum- 
mondia clavellata. Ordinarily this is regarded as a form which grows 
exclusively on the bark of trees. Consequently the writer was quite 
surprised during the past spring to find a mat of this plant flourishing 
luxuriantly on a dry limestone bowlder in an old stone wall. The 
second note concerns the distribution of Anacamptodon splachnoides. 
Until recently this moss has not been reported north of Maine. It 
was collected, however, by the writer in the summer of 1909 near 
Indian Brook, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia — a little patch no 
larger than a five cent piece, in full fruit, growing in a knot-hole of 
Betula lutea. 
YALE UNIVERSITY. 
1 RHODORA 12 : 152. 1910. 
? Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Mem. 17: 1-37. 1910. 
3 Distributed by Holzinger, Musci Acro. Bor.-Amer, Exsic., No. 254, 
