1918] Report of Committee on Floral Areas 195 
gorge of the Winooski River in Colchester, Vt., also at Highgate Springs, 
Vt. Jesup). A. parviflora is not represented by any specimens from 
New England. It was reported by Dr. George L. Goodale (Ag. & 
Geol. of Me. 366, 1861) “along the shore on a wet soil especially in wet 
and disintegrating slates” and in Ag. & Geol. of Me. 125, 1862 
“abundant along the main river in the disintegrating slates.” The 
context shows that Goodale was exploring the main St. John River 
from Ft. Kent to Seven Islands, a region little visited by botanists 
since that time. As Prof. Fernald says in litt. “the habitat, wet 
disintegrating slate, is exactly the habitat of A. parviflora on the 
Restigouche River, just east of the St. John and through the Gaspé 
and Newfoundland calcareous regions.” 
Hepatica acutiloba is very abundant in moist calcareous regions of 
Vermont, Franklin and Berkshire counties, Mass., and Litchfield 
County, Conn. It is known at Lancaster, N. H., and Alstead, N. H., 
and is reported as rare by Batchelder in the vicinity of Manchester 
(Proc. Manchester Inst. Arts & Sci. IV. ii. 24, 1909. This report 
needs confirmation by specimens). Curiously enough, Eugene P. 
Bicknell found a lone station for this in August, 1896, at York, Me., 
“one luxuriant cluster in rich deciduous woods near the York River, 
about one mile above the railroad bridge.” This is more common in 
the moist calcareous regions of the Green Mts. than in the drier 
Taconic Range. Sometimes it occurs on trap rock, as at Simsbury, 
Conn. This plant ranges south to Georgia along the mountains, also 
west to Minnesota. It has thus a typical Alleghenian range. 
Ranunculus alleghenicensis has the range its name suggests, but is 
likewise abundant in dry diorite areas around Boston and has been 
found in moist soil on Assonet Neck in Berkeley, Mass., and at Lincoln, 
R. K, by S. N. F. Sanford. Northward it is known only from West 
Lebanon, N. H. (Dr. G. G. Kennedy), Smugglers Notch, Vt. (E. F. 
Williams), and West Haven, Vt. (George L. Kirk). 
Ranunculus micranthus and R. fascicularis seem to prefer dry trap 
rock. The former is occasional around Boston, has one station in 
Hampden Co., Mass., appears at Limerock, R. I., and along the trap 
ridges of central and western Connecticut. R. fascicularis grows in 
the vicinity of Boston, especially over diorite, is frequent in the 
Connecticut valley in Massachusetts, and occurs at scattered localities 
in the western half of Connecticut, with an isolated station at Frank- 
lin. In Vermont it has been collected at Snake Mt., Weybridge 
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