26 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [BuU. 



edition, but are not included in the " Manual." The Con- 

 necticut Fontinalis is here transferred to F. Nov<2 Anglicz 

 Sulliv., a species proposed as new and based on material from 

 several stations in southern New England. Eight years after- 

 ward, in his " Icones Muscorum," Sullivant accredited to Con- 

 necticut a second species of Moss, Grimmia Olneyi Sulliv., 

 originally described from Rhode Island material. 



About the time of Sullivant's death, Professor Eaton began 

 a correspondence with the late C. F. Austin, of Closter, New 

 Jersey, who published many short papers on Bryophytes be- 

 tween 1863 and 1880. Austin was even more interested in 

 the Hepaticae than in the Mosses, and much of our present 

 knowledge of this group of plants is based on his studies. 

 In 1873 he issued his " Hepaticae Boreali-Americanse," the first 

 set of exsiccatae devoted exclusively to North American 

 Hepatics. For this publication Professor Eaton supplied a 

 portion of the material distributed under No. 115, as Aneura 

 pinnatiRda Nees, now known as Riccardia sinuata (Dicks.) 

 Trevis., and this is apparently the first published reference to 

 a Connecticut Hepatic, the specimens being recorded from 

 near New Haven. 



With the exception of these scattered notes nothing of im-- 

 portance seems to have been published on Connecticut Bryo- 

 phytes until 1878, although a large collection was gradually 

 being accumulated. In this year the Berzelius Society of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School printed " A Catalogue of the Flow- 

 ering Plants and Higher Cryptogams growing without cultiva- 

 tion within thirty miles of Yale College." This catalogue in- 

 cludes not only the Acrogens, or Pteridophytes, but also the 

 Anogens, or Bryophytes, differing in this respect from the 

 majority of local lists. The account of the Anogens, in which 

 170 Mosses and 54 Hepatics are enumerated, was prepared by 

 Professor Eaton, and forms one of his most important contri- 

 butions to the literature of bryology. The common and widely 

 distributed species are listed by name only, but definite stations 

 are given for the rarer species, and frequently the names of the 

 collectors also are mentioned. Although Professor Eaton's 

 own name appears but rarely, it is evident from his herbarium 

 that he had found most of the species listed. Mr. J. A. Allen 



