66 Rhodora [Marcu 
eastern Litchfield Co. N. Y. Pine Plains, Dutchess Co.," etc.— p. 
488); Valeriana uliginosa (“known in our area only from Pine Plains, 
Dutchess Co., a region with....an elevation of about 1,000 ft." — 
p. 582); and Petasites palmata (“ Localized in our area near Salisbury, 
Conn., at elevations of about 1,500 ft." — p. 634). The inaccuracy of 
the author’s work and its consequent lack of finality are indicated 
when we view the real facts: that the Connecticut stations for Carex 
castanea at Salisbury (and also at Canaan — see Cat. Fl. Pl. Ct. 419) 
are in the alluvium of the Housatonic River at an altitude of about 
400 (not 1,000 or 1,500) feet; that the Connecticut stations for Ledum 
are at an altitude between 100 and 200 (not “in excess of 1,000") 
feet; that the Pine Plains stations for Ledum and Valeriana are, 
according to their discoverer, L. H. Hoysradt, in marshes “a little 
lower than the village, which is about 300 [not ‘1,000’] feet above... . 
the sea" (Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. vi. 53); and that the Salisbury station 
for Petasites is at an altitude below 600 (not “about 1,500”) feet. 
Other long lists, quite as carelessly compiled, are made the basis 
of generalizations. How unfortunate that, before publication, these 
lists were not carefully scrutinized by someone with a large outlook 
upon our flora! Thus, on pages 14-17 is a list of “Southern Species 
Reaching Their Northern Distribution Point Within the Range of 
This Book." Many of the species are properly placed in the list, 
but about 30 of them extend northeast of the area covered. For 
instance, Potamogeton confervoides, abundant in eastern Newfound- 
land, was known to the late Thomas Morong from Massachusetts, 
New Hampshire (altitude 3,000 feet) and Maine (see Morong, Mem. 
Torr. Bot. Cl. iii. no. 2, 36). The latter facts ought to be familiar to 
the author, who was selected as competent to recast Morong's manu- 
script on Potamogeton for the North American Flora. Publications, 
perhaps not so intimately known to the author, but as readily accessi- 
ble, should have shown him, to indicate a few cases, that Juncus 
aristulatus reaches Nantucket (Bicknell, RHODORA, vi. 174 and Bull. 
Torr. Bot. Cl. xxxvi. 6); that Arenaria caroliniana reaches Rhode 
Island (Oakes in Hovey's Mag. xiii. 218; Olney, Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. v. 
38; Sage, RHODORA, xv. 115); or that Acer carolinianum (A. rubrum, 
var. tridens) reaches Massachusetts (Rehder, Rnopona, ix. 116) and 
even New Brunswick (Fernald & Wiegand, Ruopora, xii. 110, 140). 
Similarly, on pages 18-20, in another extensive compilation of 
" Northern Species Whose Southerly Distribution Outposts, in the 
East, are Within Our Area,” a glance at the first half-column is suffi- 
cient to indicate the same carelessness or lack of accurate knowledge 
which pervades the book. Here are entered Lycopodium alopecuroides 
and L. adpressum, in spite of the fact that in the Catalogue it is stated, 
with an approximation to correctness, that L. adpressum occurs from 
“Conn. to the Gulf States” (p. 66), thus overlooking its extreme 
abundance in Rhode Island and Massachusetts; and that L. alope- 
curoides occurs from “N. Y. to Fla., near the coast, west to Miss. 
