26 Rhodora , [FEBRUARY 
Brittoniana, Bicknell, was the prevailing form, everywhere taking the 
place of A. Eupatoria, L., var. hirsuta, Muhl. (A. hirsuta, Bicknell), 
which is the form common about Boston. 
So in Sanicula, where again Mr. Bicknell has so satisfactorily cleared 
up the obscurity among our four species. S. Marylandica, L., S. gre- 
garia, Bicknell, and S. trifoliata, Bicknell, I found in their appropriate 
habitats, relatively abundant, in the order named. While the first is 
equally common at Boston, S. gregaria is certainly rare, and S. /rifo/iata 
is probably not found east of the Connecticut River. 
On a wet wooded bank above Broad Brook, at “* White Oaks," in 
Williamstown, I collected Cypripedium pubescens, Willd., and C. parvi- 
florum, Salisb. (with specimens quite intermediate between the two), 
and C. spectabile, Salisb., which flowered in June between the dates of 
my visits. 
In the * Hopper," the great ravine in the west side of Mount Grey- 
lock, were growing Orchis spectabilis, L., the early Spiranthes latifolia, 
Torr., Liparis “iliifolia, Richard, and Uvularia grandiflora, Smith. 
Hidden in dark places, 1 found the fragrant, pretty, and delicate 
* Squirrel Corn," Dicentra Canadensis, DC.; and later, in August, 
Goodyera repens, R. Br., was abundant under the great spruces which 
happily still cover much of the mountain sides. Let us hope that the 
commissioners in charge of the new Greylock Reservation, which now 
includes this primeval forest, will appreciate the rarity in Massachusetts 
of such woods, will preserve them in their ancient and natural beauty, 
and never sacrifice them to those methods, so prevalent near Boston, 
which substitute the landscape garden for the forest ; foreign trees for 
our native species ; and graveled walks, with granite retaining walls, for 
the rocks and wild woodland paths. 
August r4, the last day of my stay, I was able to get flowering 
specimens of Conioselinum Canadense, T. & G., from the White Oaks 
swamp, where I had detected its foliage early in June. 
There were other noteworthy plants, and, especially, many inter- 
esting grasses and sedges, but they must be deferred. The “Sand 
Springs" in Williamstown, where I tarried, is in the midst of a most 
beautiful section of New England, and of a most happy hunting-ground 
for the botanist. 
BosTON, Mass. 
