246 Rhodora [No%t:mber 



Ledum groenlandicum Oeder. Windham (Bissell & Weatherby) ; 

 sphagnum bog near Congamond Lake, Suffield (Harger). 



Rhododendron canadense (L.) BSP. Winchester and SaHsbury 

 (Mrs. C. S. Phelps). Not previously reported from Litchfield Co. 



Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. Windsor and Salisbury 

 (Mrs. C. S. Phelps). Not previously reported from Litchfield Co. 



Chiogenes hispidula (L.) Torr. & Gray. New Fairfield (A. H. 

 Graves & Harger). In the Catalogue not reported from Fairfield Co. 



Vaccinium stamineum L. Haddam (Weatherby), Burlington 

 (Miss Julia F. White). Not previously reported east of Waterbury. 



The fruit of this species is usually rated as inedible or at most tart. 

 There are times, at least, when it attains a diameter of L8 cm., be- 

 comes juicy, sweet or somewhat acidulous and slightly fragrant, the 

 translucent skin roseate or blushed. — E. H. Fames. 



* V. vacillans Kalm, var. crixitum Fernald. Rhodora, xiii. 236 

 (1911). Glastonbury (Mrs. F. W. Starmer). 



* V. CORYMBOSUM L , var. pallidum (Ait.) Gray. In a swamp near 

 the shore at Stonington (Harger). 



Lysimachia vulgaris L. Ridgefield and Danbury (A. H. Graves, 

 Harger and R. W. Woodward). This species is occasional and 

 thoroughly wild in roadsides, wet fields and damp thickets for some 

 two miles along a valley. 



t L. producta (Gray) Fernald. Waterbury (A. E. Blewitt & 

 Harger). Not previously reported in New Haven Co. 



Steironema laxceolatum (Walt.) Gray. Thompson (Weatherby), 

 Plainfield (Bissell, Harger and R. W. Woodward). Not previously 

 reported from Windham Co. 



DiosPYROS viRGixiANA L. This species is not limited to the grove 

 on the beach at Lighthouse Point. Much larger trees, some of them 

 nearly 30 ft. tall, occur in the rocky woods west of the trolley line. 

 These trees appear native and, because of their size, older than those 

 by the beach. — E. H. Fames. 



Acerates viridiflora Ell., var. lanceolata (Ives) Gray. East 

 Haven (O. Harger, 1885), New Haven at the type station (Harger), 

 Oxford (Harger). 



CoN\^OLVULUS spithamaeus L. Glastonbury (Mrs. F. W. Starmer), 

 Orange (Harger), Stamford (W. H. Hoyt). Eastward and southward 

 extensions of range. 



C. JAPONicus Thunb. Greenwich (W. H. Hoyt), Bridgeport (A. 

 E. Blewitt). 



