142 Rhodora [June 



A BELATED CORRECTION. 

 Bayard Long. 



Recent correspondence with Professor Fernald lias brought to 

 light a little matter which has proved to be of sufficient interest, 

 possibly, to be worth putting upon record. Toward the close of a 

 letter, he wrote: " In the last number of Bartonia I noted a state- 

 ment which may or may not be worth while to call to the author's 

 Attention. In the note by O. H. Brown on Juncus brachycarpus it is 

 stated that the species occurs at Fort Fairfield, Maine. This must 

 have arisen through some clerical confusion for the plant at Fort 

 Fairfield, as throughout north and central Maine, is Juncus brachy- 

 ccphalus. J. brachycarpus is known in New England only at the 

 Ocean Beach and Scituate stations, the latter now apparently 

 destroyed." 



When I had found Juncus brachycarpus among the 1913 collection 

 of plants from Cape May, New Jersey, which Mr. O. H. Brown had 

 sent for identification and deposit in the Herbarium of the Philadelphia 

 Botanical Club, I had written him of his interesting addition to the 

 New Jersey flora, and on further correspondence over the note for 

 Bartonia, I had looked up some of the more readily accessible records 

 for the species on the Atlantic slope. 



Therefore, on reading Professor Fernald's letter, my feeling of 

 responsibility was quite definite. But instinctively being rather 

 unwilling to immediately acknowledge to a carelessness of this char- 

 acter, I was at once led to the first, and the last, resource in all such 

 cases — appropriately known as the "original source." In the Index 

 for Volume 12 of Rhodora under Juncus' was found ''brachycarpus, 

 ... 1 12," a glance at the nearby Errata showed no reference, and on 

 turning to the appropriate page was to be read: "But at the spring 

 where Kobrcsia clachycarpa Fernald. . . was first found we paid our 

 respects. . . to the colony of plant which has already supplied scores 

 of New England herbaria with Equuetum raricgatum Schleicher, 

 Triglockin palustris L., Calaiuagwsfis neglecta, Juncus brachycarpus 

 (Engelm.) Buchenau and ,/. alpinus Vill." Truly a notable associa- 

 tion of northern types among which to find Juncus brachycarpus, a 

 plant characteristic of the Mississippi valley and so very local east 



