124 Rhodora [JULY 
and Guilford (Eames & C. C. Godfrey), Cromwell and Salisbury 
(Weatherby), Sharon (Harger), Danbury (A. E. Blewitt) and frequent 
or locally common in southwestern Connecticut. An Alleghenian 
species closely related to, and previously confounded with, C. stipata, 
from which it differs in having the hyaline band of the sheaths smooth, 
not puckered, and with a conspicuous cartilaginous apex, which is 
yellow after drying, and in its longer perigynia with beak equalling 
or longer than the body. 
C. aquatitis Wahlenb. Middlebury (Harger). 
C. stricta Lam., var. curTIssIMA Peck. Middletown (Joseph 
Barratt; specimen in Herb. Wesleyan University). 
C. stricta Lam., var. DECORA Bailey. Waterbury (A. E. Blewitt). 
An extension of range westward. 
C. POLYGAMA Schkuhr. Waterbury (H. J. Bassett, 1862), Fairfield 
(Eames). 
* C. Busa Mackenzie. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxxvii. 241 (1910). 
Rare. Dry fields: Milford and Bridgeport (Eames). 
C. UMBELLATA Schkuhr. Common or frequent over most of the 
state in dry fields or open woods. 
C. UMBELLATA Schkuhr, var. ronsa Fernald. Old Lyme (Bissell & 
Weatherby), Middletown (Weatherby). In the Catalogue reported 
from a single station in North Stonington. 
C. UMBELLATA Schkuhr, var. BREVIROSTRIS Boott. Ledyard 
(Graves), Old Lyme (Bissell & Weatherby), Franklin, New Haven 
and “towns west” (R. W. Woodward, RĦopoara, xiii. 68; xv. 95), 
Roxbury (Weatherby). In the Catalogue reported only from 
Cheshire. 
* C. NOVAE-ANGLIAE Schwein. Rocky hillside woods, Norfolk 
(Bissell & R. W. Woodward, Ruopora, xiii. 30). 
C.umosa L. Suffield (G. E. Nichols). 
C. PTYCHOCARPA Steud. Guilford (W. R. Dudley; specimen in 
Herb. Yale University). Previously reported only from Waterford. 
C. LAXIFLORA Lam., var. GRACILLIMA Boott. Farmington (Chas. 
Wright; specimen in Herb. New England Bot. Club). In the Cata- 
logue reported only from western Connecticut. , 
C. LEPTONERVIA Fernald. Ruopora, xiv. 214 (1914). C. laxiflora 
Lam., var. leptonervia Fernald. Cheshire and Waterbury (A. E. 
Blewitt). 
C. HırcmcocKIana Dewey. Cheshire and Woodbury (A. E. 
