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number of plants of foreign origin is large, although, by what seems 
an unfortunate lack of any differentiation in type or in statement, 
they do not stand apart in the Catalogue from the truly native plants. 
The latter form the element of greatest interest in the Springfield 
flora, for upon the broad sand plains east of the densely populated 
section of the city there are isolated stations of several coastal plain 
or other southern types: Chamaecyparis, Sagittaria Engelmanniana, 
Panicum verrucosum, P. albemarlense, Psilocarya scirpoides, Fuirena 
squarrosa, Scleria reticularis, Orontium aquaticum, Xyris flexuosa, 
Utricularia resupinala, ete. It is certainly to be hoped that land 
values in Springfield will not become so great as to crowd out these 
really interesting species of the sand plains and pond-margins. 
However, should that dreaded result of urban development eventually 
follow we have the satisfaction of knowing that specimens of all the 
plants listed in the Catalogue are preserved in the herbaria either of 
the Museum of Natural History at Springfield or of the New England 
Botanical Club at Cambridge. For its care in thus preserving and 
in putting on record the known flora of the region the Springfield 
Museum is to be heartily commended.—M. L. F. 
Vol. 26, no. 307, including pages 133 to 152 and plate 145, was issued 20 
July, 1924. 
Vol. 26, no. 308, including pages 153 to 168, was issued 4 August, 1924. 
