1904] 



Kennedy, — Flora of Willoughby 



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Alphonso Wood (181 0-188 1) was the first botanist to visit Wil- 

 loughby and publish any names of plants there collected, and the 

 only reference to his visit I have been able to find is in the second 

 edition of his Class Book of Botany,^ where under Saxifraga aizoides, 

 L. and S. oppositifolia^ L. he says he discovered these in August, 

 1845, in the clefts of rocks, Willoughby Mt., 500 feet above the lake. 



In July, 1852, C. C. Frost and Rev. A. H, Clapp of Brattleboro, 

 Vermont, visited Willoughby and their trip is described by John L. 

 Russell of Salem, Massachusetts, in Hovey's Magazine, for Novem- 

 ber, 1852.'^ The mountain is there called Pisgah or Annance ; the 

 latter a name of "a chief of the St. Francis tribe of Indians." They 

 say " the region had been explored some years previous by Mr. Wood, 

 a botanist of merit, and through whose remarkable discoveries there, 

 our tourist was induced to visit the spot." Forty-seven flowering 

 plants and ferns and four mosses are mentioned as found at Wil- 

 loughby and as this makes the first list of plants of the region I give 

 it here — a list of names only, no authors cited — but here rearranged 

 more nearly after modern methods. 



Hvpninn splendens 



" crista-castrensis 



" umbratiini 



" cupressiforme 



Pteris atropurpurea 



Woodsia trlabella 



Cnpressus thvoides 



Thuya occidentalis 



Calamagrostis Canadensis 



Danthonia spicata 



Lolium perenne 



Miihlenbergia sylvatica 



Orvzopsis tnelanocarpa 



Panicum depanperatum 

 " niticiuin 



Carex ebiirnea 

 " scii'poidea 



Clintonia borealis 



Anemone cylindiica 

 " Virginiana 



Clematis Virginiana 



Arabis Ivrata 



Draba arabisans 



Saxifraga aizoides 



" oppositifolia 



Fragaria Virginiana 



Rosa blanda 

 Rubus occidentalis 



" odoratus 



" strigosus 

 Riibiis tritlorus 

 Hedysarinn boreale 

 Phaca Robbinsii 

 Vitis cordifolia 

 Helianthemutn Canadense 

 Circaea alpina 

 Oenothera fruticosa 

 Primula Mistassinica 

 Apocynum hypericifolium 

 Asclepias Cornuti 



" qu;idritolia 



Lonicera ciliata 

 Campanula rotundifolia 

 Achillaea Millefolium 

 Antennaria margaritacea 

 Artemisia Canadensis 

 Cirsium lanceolatum 

 Eupatorium ageratoides 

 " purpureum 



Solidago corymbosus 

 " lanceolatus 



1 Wood, Class Book., ed. 2 (1847) 279. 



2 J. L. Russell, Hovey's Mag. Hort. xviii. (1852) 481-485. 



