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explored, in wild and remote regions, where the hand of man has not 
yet despoiled nature of her glory. 
Our principal objective in penetrating this lovely wilderness was to 
visit a station for Waldsteinia fragarioides recently discovered by my 
cousin, Mrs. George W. Thacher, a botanist of large experience, who 
accompanied me. An agreeable surprise was held back by her, and 
when we alighted at her direction, we found ourselves before a large and 
thriving colony of Equisetum scirpoides, the first one I had seen in 
Massachusetts. This Equisetum is fairly frequent in northern Maine 
and northwards and is occasionally found in Vermont, the Berkshires 
and western Connecticut. It is however not common, and I was very 
much pleased to renew my acquaintance with it. The Waldsteinia 
was close by and was growing rather sparingly on a rich bank, in 
partial shade. It was past flowering, but I knew it at once. I learn 
that the Grey Herbarium contains but one sheet of the Waldsteinia 
from New England, collected at Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1846. 
The herbarium of the New England Botanical Club has two,— 
one from Hanover collected by Dr. George G. Kennedy, and one from 
Pownal, Vermont collected by Fred G. Floyd. Mr. Walter Deane 
who kindly furnished me with the above data has a specimen from 
Connecticut in his herbarium. I have myself collected Waldsteinia 
only once before, at Brandon, Vermont, in company with Dr. Kennedy 
in May, 1908. I have it also in my herbarium from Lebanon, New 
Hampshire (G. G. Kennedy) Middlebury, Vermont (Dr. Ezra Brainerd) 
and Rutland, Vermont (W. W. Eggleston). While this plant may be 
fairly common in Vermont especially in the Champlain valley, it ap- 
pears to have been seldom reported from other New England localities 
Along the road grew in rich abundance such plants as Mitella di- 
phylla, Tiarella cordifolia, Cystopteris bulbifera, Onoclea Struthiopteris, 
Carex sparganioides, Luzula saltuensis, all dear to the heart of the 
botanist, and a hurried inspection of a short stretch of river beach 
rewarded us with Spiranthes lucida, Habenaria hyperborea, and 
most unexpected in this wild spot, Lithospermum officinale: The 
valley of the Green river is easily reached from Greenfield and I have 
no doubt.from the short visit I made to it, that it would well repay a 
systematic investigation of its flora. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
