174 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 
LitcHFIELD: Salisbury, Nichols. Hartrorp: Canton, 
Nichols; Southington, Chamberlain; West Hartford, Miss 
Lorenz. ToLtLtaANnp: Bolton and Stafford, Nichols. Wunp- 
HAM: Canterbury, Mrs. Hadley, FairFreLp: Danbury, 
Nichols; Darien, Mrs. Lowe; Huntington and Sherman, 
Nichols. New Haven: East Haven (1855), Eaton; Hamden, 
Harger; Madison, Nichols; New Haven, Eaton; Orange, 
Evans; Woodbridge, Eaton. New Lonpon: North Stoning- 
ton and Waterford, C. B. Graves. 
Throughout temperate North America; Europe; Asia. 
Rer. Collins, 14, 131. Eaton, 15, 64. Miss Lorenz, 53, 
46, 47. 
Pogonatum Beauv. 
Pogonatum tenue (Menz.) E. G. Britton. P. brevicaule 
(Brid.) Beauv. P. pennsylvanicum (Hedw.) Par. 
Clay banks and roadsides in open woods. Autumn. 
LitcHFIELD: Salisbury, Mrs. Phelps. Hartrorp: Canton, 
Nichols; Hartford, Mrs. Lowe; West Hartford, Miss Lorenz. 
ToLLtanD: Stafford, Nichols. WinpHAm: Canterbury, Mrs. 
Hadley. FatrrieLtp: Danbury, Nichols; Darien, Mrs. Lowe. 
New Haven: Beacon Falls and Cheshire, Nichols; Hamden, 
J. A. Allen; New Haven (1866), and Orange, Eaton; Oxford, 
Harger; Woodbridge, Eaton. MuippLEsex: Killingworth, 
Nichols. New Lonpon: Ledyard, Nichols; Waterford, C. B. 
Graves. 
Nova Scotia to Alabama, and west to Missouri. 
Exsic. Holzinger, Musci Acro. Bor.-Amer. No. 123 (as 
P. pennsylvanicum). 
Rer. Collins, 14, 131. Eaton, 15, 64. Mrs. Lowe, 59. 
Polytrichum (Dill.) L. 
1. Epidermis of capsule with a large pit in the outer wall 
of each cell, neck distinctly marked off by a con- 
striction; capsule little longer than broad.............. 3 
Epidermis of capsule not pitted, neck indistinctly defined; 
capsule much longer than broad................0 0c eueue 2 
2. Capsule cylindrical 2.0... . ck cece cece cece ee eens P. alpinum 
Capsule prismatic: 2... c0eas veces cave vane veces P. ohioense 
