1902] Williams, — Lists of New England Plants, — VIII 21 



Cypripedium parviflorum, Salisb. — accredited to Rhode Island 



Bennett's List 



Goodyera repens, R. Br. var. op/iioides, Fernald. — accredited to 

 Rhode Island — Bennett's List. 



Habenaria ci/iaris, R. Br. — accredited to New Hampshire — 

 Baldwin's Orchids of N. E. 



Habenaria ci/iaris, R. Br. — accredited to Vermont — Baldwin's 

 Orchids of N. E. 



(Likewise omitted in Brainerd, Jones & Eggleston's Flora of 

 Vermont.) 



Liparis liliifolia, Richards. — accredited to Rhode Island Ben- 

 nett's List. 



Listera cordata, R. Br. — accredited to Connecticut — Bishop's 

 List. 



Orchis rotundifolia, Pursh. — accredited to New Hampshire 



Baldwin's Orchids of N. E. 



Pogonia pendula, Lindl. — accredited to Rhode Island — Bennett's 

 List. 



Tipularia discolor, Nutt. — accredited to Vermont — Baldwin's 

 Orchids of N. E. 



(This has been omitted likewise in the Flora of Vermont.) 



It seems pertinent to call attention again to the great difference in 

 value between the + sign, indicating that a specimen has been seen, 

 and the — sign, which rests only upon a printed record. Unless 

 this record can be backed up by an herbarium specimen, it can be 

 accepted only with a certain amount of doubt. 



Of the most recent segregations accredited to New England not 

 one has been admitted in my list. They are based upon unreliable 

 and inconstant characters. I am well acquainted with all of these 

 variations, and in my opinion they are at best but forms which it, is pre- 

 posterous to erect into species. 



Goodyera repens, R. Br., the European type of the species, which 

 was accredited to Vermont in the recently issued Flora of Vermont, 

 has been dropped. The specimens upon which the record was made 

 agree better with the variety ophioides of Fernald. 



Habenaria Hookeriana, Gray, var. oblongifolia, Paine, has been re- 

 tained, although in the opinion of the writer the variety is not well 

 enough marked, at least in our New England plants, to entitle it to 

 •recognition. Equally poor varieties might easily be made out of 



