116 Rhodora [JUNE 
the Thames, and Hierochloeodorata is occasional on many meadows 
near the Shetucket, and is so abundant at Occum on a marsh crossed 
by the trolley line that it gives, in May, a distinct yellowish tinge to 
the marsh. In the Norwich plants the 1st glume of the spikelets is 
not so acute as in the Westerly plants and the spikelets approach more 
nearly to the type as figured by Hitchcock and Chase.! 
ELYMUS RIPARIUS is certainly not rare in southern Connecticut. 
It is occasional in Franklin, on river bottoms, and is abundant on 
gravel flats of the Shetucket in Sprague, where perhaps one half of 
the plants show a distinct reddish tinge, which is quite noticeable 
in the field. It also occurs in dry situations, as for instance, well up 
on slopes of the West Rock trap ridge, New Haven, where it is found 
not as stray individuals but in colonies. In all specimens seen by me, 
at least the lower sheaths are ciliate and often somewhat pubescent. 
CAREX GLAUCODEA, occasional in Franklin, often along woodland 
roads, and always very glaucous, occurs at one station in Franklin 
where the plants are green or at most, show only a suggestion of the 
white bloom which is a characteristic of the species. 
ERIOCAULON PARKERI, reported by Dr. E. H. Eames from the 
vicinity of New Haven, occurs also at Old Lyme. The writer saw 
several hundred plants at one station, all growing in soft tidal mud 
and below the high water line. 
ACTAEA RUBRA NEGLECTA, Franklin, five or six plants in rich open 
woods. 
AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS FLAVIFLORA. Franklin, on a shaded ledge. 
The plant was noticed at this station for several seasons about ten 
years ago. The place has not been visited in recent years. Known 
hitherto in Connecticut only from a printed record? 
EPILOBIUM MOLLE occurs sparingly at Franklin in sphagnous 
meadows, associated with E. densum. It has not been reported in 
Connecticut from east of the Connecticut River. 
Specimens of the above, with a single exception, have been deposited 
. in the Gray Herbarium. 
New Haven, CONNECTICUT. 
1 North American Panicium, Hitchcock & Chase, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. xv. 92 (1910). 
2 Raopora, xx. 182 (1918). 
Vol. 21, no. 245, including pages 89 to 104, was issued 21 May, 1919. 
