48 Rhodora [Marcu 
organized collection of the New England Botanical Club the her- 
barium of the veteran New Bedford botanist, E. Williams Hervey, 
Esq., to find three beautiful sheets, collected by Mr. Hervey and 
correctly identified by him, of Habenaria cristata (Michx.) R. Br. 
This Fringed Orchid, with orange-yellow flowers, is a characteristic 
coastal plain species which is frequent in the Pine Barrens of New 
Jersey but north of there rare and local, and apparently unrecorded 
northeast of New Jersey. Mr. Hervey’s collections come from Smith's 
Neck in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, August 5, 1905 and August 
1, 1908, and make a notable addition to the coastal plain flora which 
reaches Buzzard's Bay and adjacent sections of Bristol and Plymouth 
Counties but which has failed to extend east of Buzzard's Bay along 
Cape Cod: such plants as Potamogeton pulcher (Nashawena, Faxon), 
Eleocharis tuberculosa (Marion, Rochester, Plymouth, etc.), Ryn- 
chospora inundata (Plymouth), Carex striata, var. brevis (Wareham, 
Kennedy; Plymouth, Fernald; Plympton, Sanford); Habenaria ciliaris 
(Marion, Hitchings); Desmodium sessilifolium (Lakeville and Middle- 
boro); Myriophyllum scabratum (Westport and Falmouth); Hydro- 
cotyle verticillata (Falmouth, Morong); Sabatia stellaris (Dartmouth, 
Hervey); Scutellaria integrifolia (New Bedford, Hervey; Bridgewater, 
old specimen in Gray Herbarium) and Eupatorium leucolepis (Lake- 
ville and Kingston). The presence of these and many other southern 
plants in the Buzzard's Bay and adjacent regions but not east of the 
western base of Cape Cod (though sometimes on Martha's Vineyard 
or Nantucket) suggests that intensive work in the region from western 
Plymouth to Little Compton will yield as notable discoveries as have 
recent explorations on Nantucket and Cape Cod.—M. L. FERNALD, 
Gray Herbarium. 
The datz of the February issue (unpublished as this goes to press) will be an- 
nounced later. 
