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Rhodora [> lAY 



It would, however, exceed the limits of this article to call attention 

 to all the wild (lowers that bloom in this seaside garden, many of 

 which are not to be found again within a radius of many miles. 



In the year 1882 the late Herbert A. Young, then a resident of 

 Revere, made a careful and very complete catalogue of the plants 

 of Oak Island which was published in the Bulletin of the Essex 

 Institute, 1883, and to that publication the writer is indebted for 

 much of the information herewith presented. Mr. Young's list 

 enumerates 336 species of flowering and fern-plants and 28 species 

 of mosses. In the twenty years which have elapsed since that publi- 

 cation some changes must necessarily have taken place in the flora 

 of the Island and it is gratifying to note at this date that but few 

 plants have disappeared from the record, and these missing species 

 are more than offset by the numerous accessions to the flora that 

 have come in during recent years. 



Dr. Jacob Bigelow in the Florida Bostoniensis, 1824 and 1840, 

 noted thirteen species from Oak Island or as it was then often called, 

 "Chelsea Beach Island." 



In 1882 Mr. Young stated that all of these with the exception of 

 Phryma Leptostachya, L. had been collected that season, although he 

 omitted from his own list Desmodium cusp idaf urn, Torr., which had 

 been noted from the Island by Bigelow (as Hedysarum cuspidatum). 

 In 1 90 1 all of these thirteen species were still in existence with the 

 same exceptions. 



The following is a list of additions to Young's Catalogue that have 

 been collected by the writer and others since the date of that publi- 

 cation (1883). Many of them, as will be observed, are segregations 

 made by botanists since that date and some are plants of a migratory 

 character that appear for a few years and then are gone. 

 Panicum macrocarpoti, Le Conte. 

 " borealc, Nash. 

 " wtciphyllum, Trin. 

 " lanugitwsitm, Ell. 

 Dactylis glomerata, L. Now very abundant throughout the island. 

 Agrostis intermedia, Scribner. {Agrostis perennans, Tuck., of Young's 



List) . 

 Bromus seailinus, L. Near stable. July 29, 1900. 

 Carex mirabi/is, Dewey, var. pcrlonga, Fernald. 

 Betula papyri/era, Marshall. A single tree with yellow-brown bark 



