86 Rhodora [Max 
necticut, in no case more than 25 miles from the coast. It may prove 
to be a coastal plain species when better known, but probably one 
of the heavier and less acid soils rather than the sand-plains. Cheil- 
anthes lanosa occurs at a single station on trap cliffs at New Haven, 
Conn. (G. Van Ingen). Lygodium palmatum is found locally in the 
Connecticut basin as far north as Winchester, N. H., in the Merri- 
mac Valley in Massachusetts and thence at scattered stations south- 
ward to Narragansett Bay. It is not known from Cape Cod. 
COASTAL PLAIN SPECIES. 
Osmunda cinnamomea, var. glandu- Woodwardia areolata 
losa į virginica 
Pteridium latiusculum, var. pseu- 
docaudatum | 
These plants are coastal plain types which, however, for the most 
part intrude into acid areas further inland than the actual geologic 
coastal plain. The Osmunda has been found only at Barrington, 
R.I. Pteridium latiusculum, var. pseudocaudatum has been collected 
at Needham, Mass., on Cape Cod at Barnstable, Dennis, Brewster 
and Harwich, and on Nantucket. It has also been reported from the 
sand-plains in Colchester, Vt. All the New England specimens 
seen are somewhat transitional and by no means as clearly distin- 
guishable as the material from further south (where the variety 
entirely replaces the typical form), and often appear like a mere 
ecological state. Woodwardia areolata occurs near the coast from 
Brownfield and Acton in southwestern Maine southward, pene- 
trating inland in Connecticut to East Hartford, Newington and 
Middlebury, and occurring also on Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard 
and Block Island. W. virginica, a plant of sphagnous swamps, 
extends further inland. It appears at scattered localities in western 
Maine as far north as Chesterville and Belgrade and in the Penobscot 
valley at Oldtown. It is frequent throughout eastern Massachusetts 
and occurs in the sandy Springfield region, also at several places in 
the interior of Connecticut. It is also known at Rutland, Colchester 
and Franklin in the Champlain valley. 
CALCIPHILE SPECIES. 
Northern 
Asplenium viride Thelypteris Filix-mas 
Cryptogramma Stelleri - fragrans 
