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3. Leaves awned, margins entire, inflexed 4 



Leaves pointed, margins sharply serrate, not inflexed 



P. commune 



4. Awn long and hyaline P. piliferum 



Awn short and red, rarely colorless at the point 5 



5. Stem densely tomentose, leaves erect P. strictum 



Stem not tomentose, leaves spreading P. juniperinum 



Polytrichum alpinum L. var. arcticum (Sw.) Wahl. 

 Pogonatum alpinum Rohl. var. arcticum Brid. 



Stony and grassy mountain slopes. Summer. Litch- 

 field: Salisbury (1906), Collins. 



Throughout northern North America ; Europe. 



Polytrichum ohioense Ren. & Card. P. formosnm of some 

 authors. 



On the ground and on earth-covered rocks in moist woods. 

 Summer. Litchfield: Salisbury, Gilman. Hartford: 

 Hartford, Miss Lorenz; Plainville, Chamberlain; Windsor, 

 Rarer. Windham : Canterbury, Mrs. Hadley. Fairfield : 

 Danbury, Eaton; Darien, Mrs. Lozve. New Haven : East 

 Haven (1856), Eaton; Madison, Nichols; New Haven, /. A. 

 Allen; North Haven and Orange, Nichols. Middlesex: 

 Chester, Nichols; Durham, Evans; Killingworth, Nichols. 

 New London : Griswold, Harger; Montville and New 

 London, C. B. Graves; Waterford, Miss Lorens. 



Newfoundland to Alaska, south to Alabama, Missouri, and 

 Oregon ; Europe. 



Exsic. Holzinger, Musci Aero. Bor.-Amer. No. 124. 



Ref. Collins, 14, 131. Eaton, 15, 64. 



Polytrichum piliferum Schreb. 



Rocky ridges and gravelly banks in hilly regions. Summer. 

 Litchfield: New Milford and Salisbury, Nichols. Hart- 

 ford: Hartford, Miss Lorens; Plainville, Chamberlain. Tol- 

 land: Stafford, Nichols. Windham: Canterbury, Mrs. 

 Hadley. Fairfield: Darien, Mrs. Lozve; Huntington, 

 Nichols. New Haven : Beacon Falls, Madison, and Meriden, 

 Nichols; New Haven (1854), Eaton; Woodbridge, Harger. 

 Middlesex : Killingworth, Nichols. New London : Led- 

 yard, Nichols; Lyme, Eaton; Old Lyme, C. B. Graves. 



