TRbooora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 16. November, 1914. No. 191. 
THE REDISCOVERY OF AN HISTORIC COLLECTION OF 
MASSACHUSETTS PLANTS. 
F. G. FLoyp. 
My time afield during the past summer was spent in Amherst, 
Massachusetts. In excursions, taken from that point as a centre, 
I found several plants of interest. For instance, Coronilla varia L. 
was new to me. It was well established and abundant at one point. 
On Sugar Loaf Mountain at the north and on one of the Holyoke 
Range on the south I found Asclepias verticillata L. At two places I 
observed Asclepias tuberosa L., the plants being very robust and the 
flowers strikingly handsome orange. Potentilla recta L. was seen once 
and Lysimachia vulgaris L. was collected by the roadside not far from 
the College. This last is a species not listed in recently published 
Catalogue of Amherst Plants by Prof. Stone. Specularia perfoliata 
(L.) A. DC., also new to me, was found in abundance on some of the 
mountains. 
But what interested me as much as anything was the finding of an 
old and historic herbarium of significance in relation to our state flora. 
In the Appendix of the Seventh Annual Report of the Massachusetts 
Board of Agriculture is a "Catalogue of Plants" (the publication 
mentioned as no. 126 of Miss Day's List of Local Floras of New Eng- 
land). It has been thought that this Catalogue of Plants, which is 
nothing but a bare list of names, was an attempt at a flora of Massa- 
chusetts. On page 139 of the above Report it is seen, however, that 
at one time there existed what was known as the State Cabinet or 
Agricultural Museum, consisting of actual specimens and embracing 
other branches of natural history as well as botany, it being stated 
