1922] Fernald,—Hoffmann's Flora of Berkshire Co. 187 
long confused) are not found in the list of excluded species. If 
Dewey’s Festuca fluitans, Vicia sativa, etc., are excluded why not the 
perfectly parallel Eriophorum cespitosum, Sagittaria sagittifolia, etc.? 
It may be thought by some that a reviewer should overlook these 
and other weaknesses in the new Flora of Berkshire County and 
enlarge upon its accuracy. The latter quality, naturally, is what we 
have a right to expect from an author who has had unusual oppor- 
tunities; and the degree to which it is attained can be determined 
only after prolonged use of the publication. But the very patent 
departures from accuracy and consistency, unfortunately, stand out 
prominently upon first examination and it is equally unfortunate that 
they reflect a tendency of many who feel themselves competent to 
publish upon geographic distribution,—the failure to realize that 
exact facts (on the whole easily ascertained) are alone of real and 
lasting value. 
A NEW ENGLAND OCCURRENCE OF LISTERA AUSTRALIS. 
H W. CHILD: 
Ir gives me keen satisfaction to announce through Rnopona the 
finding, for the first time in New England, of Listera australis. The 
facts are these: In July 1921, Cyrus Pringle Horsford of Charlotte, 
Vermont, sent me a plant for identification. While the specimen 
reached me in poor condition, it was clearly a Listera, although cer- 
tainly not L. auriculata or L. convallarioides. It seemed to me*an 
unusual form of L. cordata. ` 
On May 29th, 30th, and 31st, 1922, Mr. Lownes of Providence, 
R. I., Mr. Schweinfurth of Chestnut Hill, Mass., and I went to Vermont 
to find Calypso bulbosa and Cypripedium arietinum, it being the 
eighth year I have visited Vermont successfully for that purpose. 
Mr. Horsford went with us to the various places explored and, in 
fact, he located most of the plants for us. In Monkton, we found 
Listera cordata in full flower and Mr. Horsford at once said that the 
plant he had found in July 1921 was not the same species. 
On July 29th, 30th and 31st, 1922, I was again in Vermont and at 
the suggestion of Mr. Horsford visited several most interesting lo- 
calities, which proved very fruitful. On July 30th, we went to a bog 
to find some orchids which he knew were to be found there in great 
abundance. While I was preparing photographs of some of them, 
he said he would look around. In a short time he came to me with 
