8 Rhodora [JANUARY 
Because of the inadequacy of readily accessible information as to 
the distribution of most species of Fontinalis it has been thought best 
in connection with the following remarks concerning the forms here 
recorded from Connecticut for the first time to include as complete 
an account of their ranges on this continent as the data at hand will 
permit. 
FONTINALIS SULLIVANTH Lindb., not Lesq. & James. (F. Lescurii, 
var. gracilescens Sull.). On stones lining an old well — probably not 
submerged at any season of the year, altitude about 120 m., Monroe 
(G. E. N., 1911). Known from Maine, New Hampshire? Massa- 
chusetts,* and Rhode Island *; also from New Jersey,® Pennsylvania, 
Delaware’, Georgia,’ and Minnesota ?; endemic to North America. 
Fontinalis Allenii Card. sp. nova. In a rocky brook, Mount 
Carmel, Hamden (J. A. Allen, 1880). M. Cardot supplies the follow- 
ing description: “This beautiful species belongs to the F. Novae 
Angliae group. In its robust habit and appressed, subimbricate leaves 
it resembles especially F. Cardoti Ren.,! but it differs from this in its 
even greater stoutness, its copper yellow color and glossy lustre, and 
its larger leaves which are rounded-obtuse at the apex, rarely acute, 
entire or scarcely sinuate near the tip. Branches slightly curved; 
plants rigid when dry. Fructification unknown." "The specimens 
from which this species is described, together with those of F. nitida 
and F. flaccida mentioned below, were unearthed by the writer among 
a lot of undetermined Fontinalis material that was turned over to him 
by Messrs. O. D. and J. A. Allen, two collectors whose former activi- 
ties have contributed much toward the present knowledge of the 
bryophytes in this state. The type specimen is preserved in the her- 
barium of Cardot; co-type specimens were recently distributed by 
Grout ." 
1 Rand «€ Redfield, Flora of Mount Desert 211. 1894. 
? Lesquereux & James, Manual 271. 1884. 
3 Grout, N. Am. Musci Pleuro. Exsic. No. 73. 
4 Bennett, 1. c. 63; also herb. Collins. 
5 Cardot, 1. c. 78. 
$ Herb. Cardot. 
7 Lesquereux & James, l. c. 
* Herb. E. B. Chamberlain. 
* Holzinger: Minn. Bot. Stud. 1: 290. 1897. 
10 P, Cardoti has been recorded from Vermont (Ruopora 4:180. 1902) and is 
probably widely distributed. A form closely approaching this species has been col- 
lected by the writer at North Branford. 
u N, Amer. Musci Pleuro. Exsic. No. 395. 
