142 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



James, 50, 327. Paris, 61, 275 ; 62^ 3. Rau & Hervey, 

 64, 52. Renauld & Cardot, 65, 16. 



Thuidium abietinum (L.) Br. & Sch. Hypnuni abietinnm 

 L. 



On rocks and the ground in dry, open woods, especially 

 in calcareous districts. Spring; not yet found fruiting- in 

 the eastern United States. Litchfield: Salisbury (1907), 

 Nichols. 



Greenland to Virginia, westward to Alaska and the Rocky 

 Mountains ; Europe ; Asia. 



Elodium (Sull.) Warnst. 



Elodium paludosum (Sull.) Loeske. Hypnum paliidosum 

 Sull. Thuidium paludosum Jaeg. & Sauerb. 



On the ground in swamps and bogs. June. Hartford: 

 Canton, Nichols. Windham : Canterbury, Mrs. Hadley. 

 Fairfield: Darien, Mrs. Lozuc; Stratford, Nichols. New 

 Haven : East Haven, O. D. Allen; Hamden and New Haven 

 (1856), Eaton; Orange, Evans; Woodbridge, Eaton. Middle- 

 sex : Chester, /. A. Allen; Middlefield, Evans; Saybrook, 

 Eaton. 



Ontario and New England, south to Delaware and Illinois : 

 Asia. 



Exsic. Grout, N. Amer. Musci Pleuro. No. 156 (as 

 Thuidium paludosum) . 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 66. Mrs. Hadley, 40. Mrs. Lonnc, 58. 

 Rau, 63, 152. 



FAMILY HYPNACE^ 



Camptothecium Br. & Sch. 



Camptothecium nitens (Schreb.) Schimp. Hypnum 

 nitens Schreb. 



Swamps, bogs, and wet meadows. May- June. Hartford : 

 Berlin (1875), Coleman. 



Arctic America, Canada, and the northern United States ; 

 Europe ; Asia. 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 66. 



