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CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. 



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the state proceeds. There is little probability, for example, 

 that New Haven County is richer in Bryophytes than New 

 London County. It simply represents the part of the state 

 where bryologists have been most numerous and active. 



The last column shows the comparatively small number of 

 species known from each county of the state. All of these 

 species are exceedingly common, and the present figures will 

 probably be soon increased by the addition of other species 

 which must be equally common. Even the majority of the 

 species which are known at present from only one or two 

 localities in the state are undoubtedly much more widely 

 distributed than these scanty records would seem to indicate. 



