1899] A projected check-list of New England plants 9I 
had previously been reported in this county only from Mount Wachu- 
sett, which is about two miles north of the new station and 440 feet 
higher. It is quite abundant there, and is one ofthe most characteristic 
plants of the summit. — RoLanD M. HARPER, Southbridge, Mass. 
CORRECTION IN REGARD TO VIBRISSEA CIRCINANS ( PERS.) MASSEE. — 
This species was incorrectly included in the list of Vermont Helvellez, 
in the April RHopora. The collection should have been referred to 
Vibrissea lutea Pk., which Figs. 8—8c, Pl. 4, therefore illustrate. 
I am under obligation to Drs. Farlow and Thaxter for directing my 
attention to the error, and to Dr. Farlow for an opportunity to examine 
Leotia circinans Pers. in Klotzsch Herb. Viv. Myc. 139, in Linhart 
Fungi Hungarici 59, and in Rabenhorst Fungi Europ., Series 2, No. 39, 
from all of which my specimens are quite different. — E. A. Burr. 
A PROJECTED CHECK-LIST OF NEW ENGLAND PLANTS. 
SoME months ago the members of the New England Botanical Club 
determined that the preparation of a careful catalogue of New England 
plants would not only be a desirable undertaking for the Club, but form 
a well-nigh necessary preliminary to any general or comprehensive work 
on the flora. As the membership of the Club is composed of pro- 
fessional botanists, closely occupied with teaching or research work, 
and of not less busy amateurs, whose time for botanical work is, for 
the most part, strictly limited, it is wholly impracticable to attempt the 
early publication of a complete catalogue of this kind. Parts will be 
issued at irregular intervals as prepared, and after due criticism and 
correction may, it is hoped, be ultimately brought together as a whole. 
An essential feature of the proposed list is a sharp distinction between 
entries which rest upon personal examination of existing specimens (in- 
dicated by the sign +) and second-hand (even though fully credited) 
reports (indicated by the sign —). Various natural orders have been 
undertaken by different members of the Club, who in preparing their lists 
are expected (after acquiring an accurate knowledge of specific and 
varietal characters) to examine the representation of their respective 
groups in the larger herbaria of Cambridge, Boston and whenever 
possible, of other botanical centres in New England, also to consult all 
available local floras. Two records are to be prepared :— 1. (For pub- 
