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of ponds and streams, sometimes plentifully bordering such 

 places. July — Sept. 



A form with double flowers occurs at Plainville (J. N. 

 Bishop) . 



LYTHRUM L. Loosestrife. 

 Lythrum alatum Pursh (winged). 



Rare or local. Moist fields and open swamps : Norwich 

 (Mrs. E. E. Rogers), Farmington (A. W. Driggs & Weath- 

 erby), Fairfield (Fames), Orange and Norfolk (Bissell), 

 Salisbury (Mrs. C. S. Phelps). June — Aug. 



Lythrum Salicaria L. (willow-like). 

 Spiked or Purple Loosestrife. 



Rare or local. River banks and moist meadows : East 

 Haddam (Dr. E. J. Thompson), Southington (Andrews, Bis- 

 sell), Bristol (D. C. Eaton), Fairfield (Eames), Woodbury 

 (H. S. Clark & Bissell), Litchfield (Miss E. H. Thompson), 

 Danbury (C. K. Averill), New Milford (E. H. Austin), SaHs- 

 bury (Mrs. C. S. Phelps). July — Aug. Naturalized from 

 Europe. 



CUPHEA P. Br. 



Cuphea petiolata (L.) Koehne (having leaf-stalks). 

 Cuphea viscosissima Jacq. 

 Parsonsia petiolata Rusby. 

 Clammy Cuphea. 



Moist or dry open ground and pastures. Rare in most 

 districts: Groton (Harger & Graves ), Guilford (G. H. Bart- 

 lett & Bissell), East Hartford (A. W. Driggs & Weatherby), 

 Wallingford and Oxford (Harger), Plainville (J. N. Bishop), 

 Danbury (Miss G. L. Northrop). Local throughout south- 

 western Connecticut (Eames). Aug. — Sept. 



MELASTOMACEAE. MELASTOMA FAMILY. 



RHEXIA L. Deergrass. Meadow Beauty. 

 Rhexia virginica L. 



Meadow Beauty. 



Low fields and meadows. Rare or absent in northwestern 

 Connecticut, becoming occasional eastward and southward and 

 frequent in the vicinity of the coast. July — Sept. 



