132 Rhodora [JUNE 
In the Catalogue proper a liberal interpretation has been adopted and 
every species which has shown a tendency to care for itself or to spring 
up spontaneously has been included. Many of these, of course, are 
merely fugitives which have not been counted in the summary of 
Connecticut species. Excluding the 169 fugitives, the Catalogue 
enumerates 2,228 vascular plants, giving under each a careful summary 
of all that is known of its occurrence in the state, its habitats, relative 
abundance in different sections, flowering and fruiting seasons, collo- 
quial names, and items of economic or biological interest. A novel 
feature in such a work is the introduction in parentheses after the 
Latin name of a translation of the specific epithet, a feature which will 
do much to assist those whose Latin is rusty or wanting. ‘The nomen- 
clature of the 7th edition of Gray’s Manual is followed and synonyms 
are inserted freely. It is a pleasure to note that the quasi-colloquial 
names which have been much in vogue in some English and American 
Floras are omitted and that an effort has been made to include only 
such as are actually in use or of folk-origin. Thus, the Carices, which to 
most untechnical people are “ grasses " or at best merely sedges, are not 
encumbered with book-names, Carex stricta alone in the genus being 
distinguished by colloquial names: “Sword Grass" and “ Nigger- 
heads." Corallorrhiza odontorhiza is distinguished from the other 
members of the genus as “Crawley Root,” " Dragon’s Claws” and 
" Chicken-toes." Other items might be discussed in detail, but the 
book will speak for itself to all who are interested in it. The present 
writer may say, however, that the Catalogue seems to him to be all 
that had been hoped for — a well digested and painstaking record of 
our present knowledge of the occurrence of the Flowering Plants and 
Ferns of Connecticut, prepared by a committee whose personnel is a 
guarantee that everything in it may be relied upon. The State is 
following a liberal poliev in gratuitously distributing its bulletins 
(postage on No. 14 fifteen cents) to public libraries, colleges, scientific 
men, and others who specially need them in their work, especially if 
they are citizens of Connecticut. To others the charge for the present 
Bulletin is seventy-five cents, postpaid. Applications should be sent to 
GEORGE S. GODARD, State Librarian, Hartford, Conn.— M. L. F. 
Vol. 12, no. 137, including pages 81 to 100, was issued 27 May, 1910. 
