92 Rhodora [May 
lication.) A list of the New England species and varieties, together 
with an indication of the states from which specimens have been actually 
seen or published reports of occurrence found. 2. (For deposit in the 
Club archives.) More extended memoranda, stating the herbarium in 
which each plant from each state has been examined and the local flora 
in which each report appeared. 
The object of the list is primarily botanical and not nomenclatorial, 
and perfect uniformity of nomenclature is quite out of the question. In 
generic names no material departure from the usage of Engler € 
Prantl’s Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (Berlin rules) is anticipated and 
in the vascular plants specific nomenclature will be determined, at least 
for the present, by the uniform adoption of the first available name 
under the genus. This combination of rules gives, it is believed, the 
maximum of definiteness with the minimum of change. 
The subdivision of the New England flora according to state boun- 
daries, while artificial, is for several reasons the only subdivision practic- 
able in the present list, and as each of the six states possesses much in- 
dividuality in its flora, this division is neither devoid of interest nor 
valueless as a rough beginning for more detailed work on the internal 
distribution of New England plants. 
The lists as here published, although the result of much painstaking 
application on the part of the compilers, can rarely be complete, and 
therein lies much of their interest, since they will give ocular evidence 
- of many surprising lacune in our present knowledge of distribution and 
show where the attention of the collector may be profitably directed. 
In examining them, readers are requested to note especially what species 
are not marked with the plus sign as having been seen from their states. 
Persons possessing a knowledge of the occurrence of these species in 
states other than those marked with the plus sign will confer a great 
favor by sending to the compilers specimens to demonstrate the presence 
of such species in the unrecorded states. Only by such cordial coópera- 
tion upon the part of the New England botanists can the ultimate cata- 
logue be given the completeness which is desired. 
The following list by Mr. Deane will indicate the manner of publi- 
cation proposed. In order that these lists, which may sometimes be of 
length, shall not encroach upon the space to be allotted to other sub- 
ject-matter, they will be treated as supplementary material, but the 
pages added to include them will, for convenience in indexing and ci- 
tation, be numbered continuously with other parts of the journal. 
