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Liparis Loeselli is infrequent, and not abundant except in one 

 roadside bank with clayey soil, in Glastonbury. L. UUijolia is in 

 forty-eight towns, in all counties ; but chiefly in Hartford and New 

 Haven Counties, infrequent in each of the others. 



The three coralroots of the Eastern States are found in Con- 

 necticut; C. trifida is very rare, C. maculata is in nearly half of 

 the towns, chiefly in Hartford and New Haven Counties, never 

 abundant except in a bank beside an old woodroad in Woodstock, 

 Windham County, where Mr. B. J. Pawsey found a colony of more 

 than seventy on August 29, 1939. C. odontorhiza is seldom found 

 except in Hartford and New Haven Counties. Usually there is a 

 solitary plant or a very small group. Eight years ago there was 

 a colony of over 100 in a low open thicket in West Hartford, but 

 many have disappeared. 



Serapias Hellehorine L., the energetic species, which has spread 

 so fast and far in New York State in the last forty years and is 

 known also in Pennsylvania, Vermont, District of Columbia, Wis- 

 consin and Ontario, was discovered about ten years ago in West 

 Hartford and seems to be well established. 



Aplectrum hyemale has almost disappeared; so has Triphora 

 triantlwphora. The two species of Malaxis are vanishing — fewer 

 than twenty plants of M. unifolia have been seen by the writer in 

 eight years and in three counties. 



There are three towns, Oxford, Southington and Glastonbury, 

 in each of which more than twenty species are well established. In 

 some limited areas, orchids abound, in species and numbers. In one 

 open wood, which includes some low places, in Glastonbury, four- 

 teen species have been counted ; on Soapstone Mountain in EUing- 

 ton, twenty species, including Isotria affinis, Malaxis unifolia and 

 the three coralroots and representing ten of the fourteen genera 

 found in the state. Nearly all these same genera are found also in 

 Oxford, Southington and Glastonbury, but not in such limited 

 areas. 



Of eleven species. Orchis spcctahilis, Cypripedium acaule and 

 C. parvifiorwn, Hahenaria Hookcriana, H. orhiciilata, H. lacera, 

 H. psycodes, H. fimhriata, H. davellata, Liparis UUijolia, Isotria 

 verticillata, good specimens with capsules have been collected in 

 the winter months. Of the Isotria it has been observed that the 



