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yew it often forms a dense carpet over the surface of the ground. 

 Others are restricted to upland woods, e. g., Festuca nutans, Car ex 

 Deweyana, Carex arctata, and Pyrola chlorantha. A few, such as 

 Cypripedium acaule, Caulophyllum thaUctroides and Daliharda 

 rep'ens, are quite local in their occurrence. The scarcity of 

 autumn flowering plants is remarkable. In late September 

 almost the only conspicuous form in blossom is Aster divaricatus. 



Fig. 3. 



Oxalis Acelosella (in flower) and Tiarella cordifolia (in fruit), 

 brook forest. 



Cole- 



.Hardly less striking is the relative abundance of northern species 

 which elsewhere in the state are either absent or confined to cool 

 ravines. Habenaria macrophylla, for example, has been definitely 

 recorded from but one other Connecticut locality, yet here it 

 is not infrequent, though rare in flower. 



No one feature better suggests the intense mesophytism of 

 this forest than the character and distribution of the bryophytes. 

 Not only do these commonly form a rich covering over the 



