130 Rhodora [July 



the coast. Discussion of this and the two preceding species will be 

 found in Rhodora, xii. 157-162. 



Sagina decumbens (Ell.) Torr. & Gray. Portland (A. E. Blewitt). 



* Stellaria borealis Bigel., var. isophylla Fernald. Rhodora, 

 xvi. 150 (1914). Cromwell and Winchester (Bissell), Guilford (G. H. 

 Bartlett & Harger), Southington (Andrews), Oxford (Harger). 



S. BOREALIS Bigel., var. floribuxda Fernald. Rhodora, xvi. 151 

 (1914). Orange (Weatherby), Oxford (Harger). 



t S. GRAMixEA I.., var. LATiFOLiA Petemi. East Hartford 

 (\Yeatherby), Southington (Andrews), Salisbury (Bissell), Mil ford 

 and Bridgeport (Eames). Introduced from Europe. 



t S. AQUATICA L. Rare. Moist banks of the Housatonic River 

 below highwater mark, sparingly at two stations (Harger). Fugitive 

 or adventive from Europe. 



* SiLENE AXTiRRHiXA L., fomia Deaneana Fernald. Rhodora, 

 xvii. 96 (1915). Occasional in dry soil. Differs from the typical 

 form in the entire absence of the glutinous band on the internodes. 



t S. GALLiCA I;., var. quinquevulnera Koch. Rare. Cultivated 

 fields, Southington (Andrews). Fugitive from Europe. 



Gypsophila muralis L. Roadside, Chester (Graves). 



NuPHAR ADVEXA (Ait.) R. Br. Occasional in the coastal region of 

 southwestern Connecticut (Eames). 



N. VARiEGATu:^! Eugclm. Commou or occasional throughout. 

 Recent studies have shown that the name Nuphar advena should 

 be restricted to the larger plant having mostly emersed leaves with 

 open sinus. 



N. MICRO PHYXLUM (Pers.) Fernald. Rhodora, xix. Ill (1917). 

 Guilford (W. R. Dudley; specimen in Herb. Yale Universit}^), Ply- 

 mouth (H. J. Bassett, 1861), Stamford (Eames & C. C. Godfrey). 

 In the Catalogue not reported from Fairfield Co. 



Nymphaea tuberosa Paine. Rogers Pond, Old Lyme (Graves). 



{To he cojiiinued.) 



