1924] Fernald,—A Flora of Springfield, Mass. (Review) 179 
The inflorescence consists of two or three flowers coming from a 
single axil the pedicels sometimes branching. The leaves at this 
season often have the same reddish tinge which characterizes A. laevis 
and A. sanguinea, but the general effect of the shrub, with its snow- 
white star-shaped flowers, is very different. It is frequently a 
dense shrub, seldom very tall. 
Later the same week I found A. Bartramiana in bloom in Barton, 
Vermont, and still later, May 27, in Brome County, Quebec, rather 
past its prime. This year I was again much pleased and surprised 
to find it in bloom on the high sandplains between Ashburnham 
and Winchendon, Massachusetts, at an elevation of perhaps 1200 
feet, on May 21. Crossing the State line, I found it again in Fitz- 
william, New Hampshire, at about the same elevation, and later 
that week in Marlow, Lempster and Grantham, along the west side 
highway of New Hampshire. 
It is interesting to know that this species, so often associated with 
mountains and the northern country, is abundant at moderate 
elevations so far south as these stations. In summer the leaf is always 
characteristic. The fruit is somewhat pyriform, one to three fruits on 
long pedicels ripening at the upper axils. I have usually found it 
after the middle of July.—Cr4AnENCE H. Kwowrrow, Hingham, 
Massachusetts. 
A FLORA OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.—The results of active 
collecting by the botanists of Springfield, Massachusetts, during the 
last half-century have been published! by the Springfield Museum of 
Natural History. The actual drawing together of the material was 
chiefly in the hands of the late Luman Andrews, who unfortunately 
died before the work could be put into final form; and the finishing 
touches were given the manuscript by the experienced student of 
the flora of the Connecticut Valley, Mr. C. A. Weatherby. The 
Catalogue is in conventional and, therefore, thoroughly convenient 
form. Itis accompanied by a detailed map and by ten plates, illustra- 
ting noteworthy trees. The native flora of Springfield has naturally 
suffered the fate of indigenous floras about any large city and the 
1 Museum of Natural History, Springfield, Massachusetts, Bulletin No. 3. Cata- 
logue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Springfield, Massachusetts. By Luman 
Andrews and a Committee of the Springfield Botanical Society. 1924. 
