1913] Nichols,— Notes on Connecticut Mosses,— IV 13 
accredited to Connecticut it is a source of no little satisfaction at last 
to be able to reinstate it in the list. The characters which separate 
the species from other Drepanocladi are brought out in the writer’s 
original key to the genus,! while the reasons for replacing the familiar 
binomial H. uncinatum by D. aduncus are sufficiently stated elsewhere.’ 
Fruit usually borne in abundance, summer. D. aduncus has previously 
been recorded from Maine? New Hampshire,^ Vermont,? Massachu- 
setts, and Rhode Island? It ranges throughout northern North 
America, reaching south as far as the mountains of West Virginia and 
California; a cosmopolitan. 
The following additional localities for rare or infrequently collected 
mosses should also be noted $ : Sphagnum compactum, North Haven; 
Sphagnum obesum, New Haven; Dicranum spurium, East Haven, ` 
Branford, and Killingworth; Dicranum sabuletorum, New Fairfield; 
Dicranum Drummondii, New Fairfield and Bethany; Dicranum 
montanum, Salisbury and Voluntown; Dicranum viride, Salisbury, 
Colebrook, and Voluntown; Fissidens osmundoides, Windsor (Miss 
Lorenz); Octodiceras Julianum, Salisbury and Branford; Didymodon 
rubellus, Windsor (Miss Lorenz); Racomitrium sudeticum, Killing- 
worth; Ephemerum cohaerens, Branford; Nanomitrium | Austini, 
New Haven; Aphanorrhegma serratum, Hartford (Miss Lorenz), 
Salisbury, and Bethany; Bryum capillare, Colebrook; Myurella gra- 
cilis, Middletown; Pterigynandrum filiforme, Salisbury and Colebrook; 
Haplohymenium triste, Colebrook; Elodium | Blandowii, Brachy- 
thecium populeum, Brachythecium velutinum, Sematophyllum tenui- 
rostre, and Isopterygium elegans, Colebrook; Isopterygium turfaceum, 
Norfolk and Colebrook; Isopterygium Muellerianum, Middletown; 
Plagiothecium latebricola, New Fairfield; Amblystegiella confervoides, 
Brookfield and Kent; Amblystegium vacillans, West Hartford (Miss 
Lorenz); Chrysohypnum  polygamum, Salisbury; Rhytidiadelphus 
squarrosus, Colebrook; Rhytidium rugosum, Canaan; Stereodon fer- 
tilis, Voluntown; Polytrichum strictum, Colebrook. 
YALE UNIVERSITY. 
1 Bryophytes of Connecticut. 167. 
2 RHopoRA 10: 153-154. 1910. 
3 Rand & Redfield, l. c. 216. 
* Herb. Yale University. 
5 Grout, Mosses of Vermont 30. 
6 Tuckerman & Frost, l. c. 51. 
7 Bennett, l. c. 65. 
3 Unless otherwise indicated the specimens were collected by the writer. 
