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the coast northward into the southern parts of Maine and New- 

 Hampshire, and a few reaching as far north as Nova Scotia, New 

 Brunswick, and even Newfoundland. The following list com- 

 prises coastal plain species which in this state have been found 

 only east of the Connecticut River. ^ 



Sphagnum macrophyllum*^ 

 Sagittaria longirostra* 

 Sagittaria Engelmanniana 

 Paspalum psammophilum*'\ 

 Paspalum circulare^ 

 Panicum virgatum cubense*'\ 

 Panicum spretum*^ 

 Panicum oricola*'\ 

 Panicum auburne 

 Eleocharis Torreyana* 



Carex alholutescens*'\ 

 Carex 7tigro-marginata''^f 

 Carex ptychocarpa 

 Carex bullata* 



Juncus effusus conglomeratus* 

 Desmodium sessilifolium* 

 Hypericum adpressum*^ 

 Myriophyllum scahratum*\ 

 Schwalbea americana* 

 Aster spectabilis*'\ 



In the same category should be included two other groups of 

 coastal plain plants. The first is made up of species whose dis- 

 tributional area in the state obviously centers in the southeast 

 but which may extend for some distance westward along the 

 coast or northwestward into the valley of the Connecticut River. 

 Worthy of mention among such forms are: 



Calypogeia Sullivantii*^ 

 Panicum Commonsianum*^ 

 Panicum Addisonii* 

 Eleocharis tuberculosa* 

 Scleria pauciflora* 

 Juncus militaris*\ 

 Xyris Smalliana*^ 

 Lachnanthes tinctoria*'\ 

 Ilex opaca*] 



Ilex glabra*^ 

 Ludvigia sphaerocarpa*\^ 

 Sabatia dodecandra*] 

 Asclepias variegata*] 

 Scutellaria integrifolia*'\ 

 Plantago elongata*] 

 Eupatorium aromaticum*] 

 Gnaphalium purpureum*] 



1 In this and the two succeeding lists the asterisk (*) and dagger (f) Indicate 

 that a species Is recorded from the New Jersey coastal plain and Long Island 

 respectively. 



2 In Connecticut known only from West Pond, Guilford, but also found in 

 eastern Massachusetts. 



