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with perhaps the greater part in Southbury, which includes South 
Britain. 
My explorations have to a large extent been made from South 
Britain as a base but have included most of the territory to some 
degree. A locality of special interest is formed at South Britain by 
the river shores and alluvial meadows extending southerly from the 
acute angle of the river some half a mile until the river enters the 
granitic rocks. Here, close to the caving river bank, I collected, 
three or four years ago, a Panicum which at the time was taken for 
P. villosissimum Nash and some specimens were distributed under 
that name. Later, Mr. C. H. Bissell reported that his specimen from 
this collection had been determined by Prof. A. S. Hitchcock as P. 
pseudo-pubescens H. & C., but on sending my specimens to Prof. 
Hitchcock they were named P. scoparioides Ashe. I was somewhat 
puzzled but visited the locality again and found that both the latter 
species were growing there together, so that my first collection must 
have been of mixed material. 
On the alluvial meadows here we find an abundance of Tradescantia 
virginica L. growing over a considerable area, perhaps a quarter of a 
mile in either direction from the Panicum station and on both sides 
of the river. The region was settled very early and this is possibly 
introduced but it appears to be native and, if so, this is probably the 
most northeasterly known native station. The river banks and 
thickets here furnish Arabis glabra (L.) Bernh. and an abundance of 
Floetkea proserpinacoides Willd. both of which seem to be rare in the 
state. In the summer of 1911 as I was passing by a thicket where 
Floerkea made a carpet in the spring, I saw a dodder which appeared 
to be strange. I was somewhat skeptical at first as our common 
Cuscuta Gronovii Willd. has a way of appearing in strange forms, but 
this proved to be Cuscuta obtusiflora HBK. new to New England and 
scarcely more than 300 feet from the only known New England station 
for Panicum pseudo-pubescens: while the single New England station 
for Phlox pilosa L. (see Ruopora 1: 76) is about a mile distant. As 
far as yet known these meadows yield no more species unique in New 
England or even in Connecticut, but several rare or interesting forms 
occur, among them Carex trichocarpa Muhl. which has been known 
from Connecticut only a few years but here as elsewhere grows in 
masses in the swales, then Viola scabriuscula Schwein. and Claytonia 
virginica L. are abundant in their season, while Antennaria canadensis 
Greene and Monarda fistulosa L. occur sparingly. 
