1914] Weatherby,— Old-time Connecticut Botanists,—— 1 | 89 
The claim of that species to admission to the Connecticut flora rests 
on Mr. Brace's list and a specimen of Charles Wright's at the Gray 
Herbarium. The latter is marked as from Wethersfield, but the 
accuracy of its label is under suspicion. Mr. Brace’s single specimen 
is Isanthus without doubt; but it was collected in Ohio by Sullivant. 
One can hardly base a Connecticut record on such evidence; someone 
will still have to collect Zsanthus. 
Nevertheless, even the most data-less portions of the herbarium 
may be made to yield some evidence as to doubtful points; and it is 
possible to dispose satisfactorily of all but one of the Brace records 
in the list of excluded species in the Catalogue of Connecticut Plants. 
Thaspium aureum and Gentiana Saponaria are, as would be supposed, 
Zizia and GŒ. Andrewsii respectively. Ranunculus Flammula is ft. 
laxicaulis; Euphorbia dentata, E. hirsuta; Pycnanthemum aristatum, 
P. muticum. The one exception is Veronica Beccabunga of which Mr. 
Brace has only a European specimen. The species is reported as 
introduced at a few localities in North America; but it is altogether 
probable that what Mr. Brace had was V. americana. 
The following list of species represented in the Brace herbarium by 
specimens definitely marked as from Litchfield is appended in the 
hope that it may be of interest to students of the local flora. In each 
case, the name first given is that used in the Brace list; where this 
has been superseded in present-day usage, it is followed by its current 
name or by that of the species to which the plant in question is now 
referred. 
Acorus Calamus. 
Agrostis mexicana. Of the two plants on sheet no. 1384, one is 
Muhlenbergia tenuiflora, the other, marked Litchfield, M. mexicana — 
the only specimen of that species I have seen from Litchfield County. 
Alopecurus geniculatus. Plant is the var. aristulatus. 
Arundo canadensis. Calamagrostis. 
Callitriche heterophylla. 
Carex flava. 
Comptonia asplenifolia. Myrica. 
Convallaria bifolia. Maianthemum canadense. 
i pubescens. Polygonatum biflorum. 
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racemosa. Smilacina. 
P umbellulata. Clintonia borealis. 
