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The form described as A. Steivardsofiii Britton occurs on shaded 

 river-banks and in wet woods at South Windsor (C. ^\. Vibert), 

 Watertown (Harger, Weatherby), Wilton (G. P. Ells), Salisbury 

 (Weatherby). 



* Eriocaulon Parkeri Robinson. Rare. Tidal fiats of Mill 

 River, New Haven and Hamden (Eames, 1899) and similar situations 

 along the Housatonic River, Stratford (Eames). Previous to its rec- 

 ognition at these stations known only from the estuaries of the lower 

 Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay. No admixture with E. sejAan- 

 gularehas been observed, the latter appearing to be confined to fresh- 

 water shores beyond tidal influence. — E. H. Eames. 



Xyris flexuosa Muhl. Change the statement of range in the 

 Catalogue to read: — Occasional in New London Co. and on the sand- 

 plains of central Connecticut; rare elsewhere, reaching Union (Bissell), 

 Killingworth (Harger et al), Ellington (Harger). 



X. Smalliana Nash. Voluntown (Graves), Haddam (W. R. Dud- 

 ley; specimen in Herb. Yale University). 



t Tradescantia reflexa Raf. Waste ground, Naugatuck (A. E. 

 Blewitt, Rhodora, xiv. 163). Fugitive from the southwestern 

 United States. 



Pontederia cord ATA E., var. angustifolia Torr. East Lyme 

 (Bissell), Groton (Harger), Suffield (Eames & C. C. Godfrey). 



JuNCUS tenuis L., var. anthelatus Wiegand. Franklin (R. W. 

 Woodward), New Fairfield (Harger). Occasional near the coast in 

 southwestern Connecticut. 



J. DICHOTOMUS Ell. Fairfield (Eames). 



Juxcus DICHOTOMUS Ell., var. platyphyllus Wiegand. Fairfield 

 (Eames). Previously reported only from Groton. 



* J. EFFUSUS li., var. conglomeratus Engelm. Gray Man. Ed. 5. 

 537(1867). Rhodora, xii. 85. Rare. Sphagnous meadows: Volun- 

 towm (Bissell, Rhodora, xiii. 31), Franklin (R. W. Woodward, Rho- 

 dora, xii. 86). 



* J. EFFusus L., var. decipiens Buchenau. Rare. Moist grassy 

 roadside, Madison (Weatherby). 



J. BRACHYCEPHALUS (Engclm.) Bucheuau. In moist or dry calca- 

 reous soils southward in the Housatonic valley to New Milford and 

 Sherman (Eames). 



J. CANADENSIS J. Gay, var. subcaudatus Engelm. Ledyard 

 (Graves), Killingly (Bissell & Weatherby), Colebrook (M. L. Fernald). 

 Eastern and western extensions of range. 



