28 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
(II, 185);" Lophocolea Austini is now included under L. heterophylla 
(IV, 37); Lophozia gracilis is now L. attenuata (VI, 187); L. Lyon 
is now L. quinquedentata t; Nardia haematosticta is now N. Geoscyphus 
(V, 57). 
YALE UNIVERSITY. 
PHILOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE “PLANTS OF WINELAND 
| THE GOOD." 
A. Leroy ANDREWS. 
A CONSIDERABLE time has elapsed since the appearance of Professor 
Fernald’s preliminary study upon the Norse discovery of America,” 
but as the author’s promised greater work upon the subject is not yet 
forthcoming the publication of the following considerations may not 
be without interest to those who have read his article. 
It may be said at the outset that all attempts to find the Vinland of 
the Norsemen in New England have been unsuccessful. "The evidence 
for Nova Scotia seemed relatively stronger, nor would the conclusions 
of Fernald’s preliminary study, even if accepted in all their details, 
preclude the possibility of the Norsemen having come as far south as 
Nova Scotia, though the author seems unwilling to believe that they 
did. 
Of the many works devoted in whole or in part to the Norse discov- 
ery of our continent the one possessing value beyond all others is that 
of the Norwegian historian, Gustav Storm, published in 1887,* who 
after a critical survey of all available material concluded that the 
Norsemen came as far south in America as Nova Scotia, but hardly 
further. Reeves, whose book * forms the basis of Fernald’s study, 
was a young American scholar of promise who met with an untimely 
1 The reasons for this change have not yet been discussed in the writer's Notes. 
? RuoponRa, xii, 17ff. 1910. 
3 Aarbóger for nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie, 2 Række, ii, 293ff.; the paper 
is also accessible in English in Mémoires de la Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord 
viii, 3071T. 1888. For the bibliography of the Norse discovery of America see H. 
Hermannsson, Islandica, ii (Ithaca, N. Y.). 1909. 
4 The Finding of Wineland the Good. London. 1890. 
