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knowledge of the local flora. Besides this List, which stands as Mr. 
Batchelder's most important technical publication in botany, frequent 
notes from his pen were published in Rnopoma, and his name is 
familiar to New England botanists as the author of the combination 
Glyceria borealis (Nash) Batchelder. 
MANHASSET, NEw YORK. 
NOTES ON CONNECTICUT MOSSES,— III. 
G. E. NICHOLS. 
In his last paper on Connecticut mosses ! the writer called attention 
to the northwestern part of the state, and especially to the town 
of Salisbury, as a favorable collecting ground. At that time eighteen 
species of hepatics and mosses were known from no other locality. 
This number has since been raised to twenty-six. In the present series 
of notes eleven mosses are recorded from Connecticut for the first 
time. Of these, nine represent additions due to recent explorations, 
while the remaining two have previously been reported under other 
names. | 
FIssIDENS VIRIDULUS (Swartz) Wahl. Bolton and Danbury 
(G. E. N.); Hamden (J. A. Allen, 1880); East Haven (Kleeberger). 
For some time it has been evident to the writer that the Connecticut 
material which has been passing as F. incurvus Schwaegr. (including 
F. minutulus Sull.)? comprised a number of distinct forms. Recently 
all of the available Connecticut specimens, some sixteen packets in 
all, were submitted to Mr. H. N. Dixon of Northampton, England, 
for examination, and some of his observations will be of interest 
to American bryologists. The broad conclusion that he comes to is 
that there is at any rate none of the true F. incurvus in the lot. More- 
over, none of the specimens seem to agree with the descriptions of 
F. minutulus. Mr. Dixon divides the Connecticut specimens into 
several groups, one of which, as already indicated, he assigns defi- 
nitely to F. viridulus. A second group, comprising specimens col- 
lected by the writer in Salisbury and North Branford, he refers to 
F. viridulus var. Lylei Wils. (= F. exiguus Sull.). The remaining 
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! RuHoponRA 13:40. 1911. 
2? See Evans and Nichols: Bryophytes of Connecticut 104. 1908. 
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