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ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF COXXErTirrT. 



{Continued Jrcnn jxujc 110.) 



Ar.RosTis ALBA L. The terat()l{)<,MC'aI form known as ,1. .si/Icatica 

 L. is plentiful at one locality in Stratford (Fames). 



A. ALHA L., var. aristata Gray. Seymour (Harder). Occasional 

 in the southwestern part of the state where, however, it constantly 

 intergrades with the typical form. 



A. perennans (Walt.) Tuckerm. The weak or decumlient form 

 with looser panicles and lax blades, which has l)een separated as A. 

 SchivcinitziL Torr. is occasional in moist woods throughout. 



A. CAMXA L. Franklin (R. \V. Woodward). In the Catalogue not 

 reported east of the Connecticut valley. A peculiar autumnal form 

 producing tufts of leaves from the nodes occurs at Sharon (Bissell, 

 R. W. Woodw^ard and Weatherby, Rhodora, xiii. 30). 



t Apera spica-vexti (L.) Beauv. Roadside, Bridgeport (Fames). 

 Adventive from Europe. 



CiNNA latifolia (Trcv.) Griseb. Pistapaug Mt., Durham (Bissell). 

 Previously known only from the northwestern part of the state. 



t AvENA FATUA L. Two or three clumps in newly-seeded grass- 

 land, East Windsor (Bissell), Bridgeport (Eames). 



t A. PUBESCEXS Huds. Plentiful at one station, Woodbury (Harger). 

 Fugitive or adventive from Europe. 



Spartina Michauxiana Hitchc. South Windsor (Bissell), New 

 Hartford and Newtown (A. E. Blewitt). Extensions of range north- 

 ward. 



Phragmites communis Trin. Oxford (Harger). 



* Fragrostis pectinacea (^lichx.) Steud., var. spectabilis Gray. 

 Sandy wastes on the coast: Bridgeport (C. K. Averill, Eames). 

 Probably not rare. 



Melica striata (Michx.) Hitchc. Winchester (A. E. Blewitt). 



Briza media L. Old Lyme (A. E. Blewitt). 



Cynosurus cristatus L. Hartford (J. P. Brace, 1861; specimen 

 in Herb. Williams College: Rhodora, xvi. 87). Well established in 

 grass-land: Branford and Fairfield, not rare in newly seeded lawns, 

 whence it readily spreads (Eames). 



* Glyceria Ferxaldii (Hitchc.) St. John. Rhodora, xix. 75 

 (1917). G. pallida (Torr.) Trin., var. Fcrnaldii Hitchc. Rhodora, 



