48 Rhodora [Marcu 
ruralis is one of the most cosmopolitan mosses, being known from all 
of the great continental areas. In temperate North America it is 
widely distributed, but it is apparently much commoner in the West 
than in the East. The only other New England stations for it that 
the writer has found record of are in Vermont and Massachusetts. 
Fruit, when developed, matures in summer, but the plants are com- 
monly sterile. 
RacoMrrRIUM SUDETICUM (Funck) Br. & Sch. Mr. R. S. Williams 
has referred to this species the specimens recently described by the 
writer! as R. fasciculare. In general aspect the two species are often 
similar. But in R. sudeticum some at least of the leaves possess short, 
denticulate, hyaline hair-points, while the upper leaf-cells are roundish- 
quadrate in shape. The leaves of R. fasciculare are always obtuse, 
never developing hyaline points, and throughout the leaf the cells 
are from three to five times as long as broad. R. sudeticum is quite 
common in the Salisbury hills and is known from all of the New 
England States except Rhode Island. Its general distribution is 
similar to that already given for R. fasciculare. 
ANOECTANGIUM LAPPONICUM Hedw. On precipitous schistose 
rocks in a moist ravine, altitude 1600 feet, Salisbury (G. E. N., 1911). 
Fortunately this moss usually fruits abundantly and the capsules, 
strongly plicate when dry and empty and barely emergent above 
the perichaetial bracts, render it easy of recognition. The other 
Connecticut species, A. Mougeotii, is dioicous and rarely fruits. A. 
lapponicum is autoicous, the antheridial buds being situated in the 
axils of the upper leaves and readily demonstrable in most cases. 
It has been recorded from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, 
but is evidently much less frequent in New England than the other 
species. It ranges throughout the northern part of this continent, 
with a southerly extension in the East as far as the mountains of 
Alabama, and is found also in Europe and Asia. The capsules mature 
in late summer. 
LEUCODON SCIUROIDES (L.) Schwaegr. On the bark of a tree, 
altitude 150 feet, Ledyard (G. E. N., 1911). As Grout observes,’ 
this species can usually be recognized in the field by the flagelliform 
branches which are frequently produced in such abundance as to cause 
the plant to appear deformed. The leaves differ from those of the 
1 RuHopona 13:43. 1911. 
? Mosses with Hand Lens and Microscope 389. 1910. 
