98 Rhodora [May 
its boundaries extended to include all of Franklin, Hampshire and 
Hampden Counties, will interest many students of our flora. The 
present list “contains in all 1190 native and 303 naturalized and 
adventive species, a total of 1493”; but of this number several, upon 
critical inspection, must obviously be omitted: such plants as Lyco- 
podium sabinaefolium and L. complanatum, boreal plants which extend 
southward only into northern New England and which were not stricken 
from the list when their Massachusetts representatives, L. tristachyum 
and L. complanatum, var. flabelliforme, were inserted; Glyceria 
fluitans whose place in Massachusetts is taken by G. septentrionalis 
and G. borealis; Carex adusta, known in New England only from 
Hancock County, Maine, but here entered upon the basis of Tucker- 
man’s specimens which, as represented in various herbaria, are typical 
C. foenea; Epipactis decipiens, known in New England only in north- 
ernmost Maine but often confused (without apparent reason) with our 
Massachusetts E. tesselata; and Vitis cordifolia, a plant unknown as 
far northeast as New England but formerly (and apparently still by 
some people) confused with our common and distinct V. vulpina. 
The opportunity for further additions to the list for the Connecticut 
Valley counties and the value of the field work now being actively 
prosecuted by the New England Botanical Club are clearly indicated 
by the fact that collections brought back to the Club Herbarium, 
chiefly by those who took part in the Greenfield field-day in 1912, 
contain forty species which are not mentioned in Professor Stone's 
List: Equisetum pratense, Scirpus Peckii, Carex Crawfordii, C. cepha- 
loidea, C. communis, Juncus brachycephalus, Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, 
Oxalis filipes, Teucrium Botrys, Antennaria occidentalis, A. Brainerdii, 
A. petaloidea, Xanthium canadense, Bidens vulgata, etc.; while many 
local species, listed by Stone from a single station each, were collected 
at what now appear to be unrecorded stations: Cryptogramma Stelleri 
at Montague and Gill; Poa alsodes at Greenfield and Amherst; Alnus 
mollis at Montague and Shelburne; Dentaria maxima at Northfield, 
Gill and Coleraine; Waldsteinia fragarioides at Greenfield; Prunus 
cuneata at Montague; etc. From these facts it is clear that our 
knowledge of the flora of the Connecticut Valley counties is far from 
complete; and to those who are situated to explore that diversified 
region, Professor Stone’s new List will be welcome as a convenient 
basis for further detailed notes.— M. L. F. 
Scirpus Peck in Connecticut.— While spending my vacation 
at my brother’s home in Barkhamsted and during my time not spent 
“farming it” I was studying and collecting the flora in that vicinity 
as I have done on many previous occasions. In an old and wettish 
meadow, at an elevation of 1025 feet, where an abundance of Scirpus 
