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JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 1 je January, 1899 No. 1 
EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. 
This JOURNAL is founded by the New EnGLaND BOTANICAL CLUB, 
with confidence that it will give new stimulus and render material aid 
to the study of our local flora. Its publication has not been undertaken 
without mature consideration, nor until, through the keen and helpful 
interest of New England botanists, a sufficient subscription list has been 
secured to assure its monetary support. In the selection of subject- 
matter, special attention will be given to such plants as are newly 
recognized or imperfectly known within our limits, to the more precise 
determination of plant ranges, to brief revisions of groups in which spe- 
cific and varietal limits require further definition, to corrections upon 
current manuals and local floras, to altitudinal distribution, plant asso- 
ciations, and ecological problems. For the present, at least, little of 
our limited space can be devoted to histology or technical physiology. 
Not only the flowering plants, but the ferns, mosses, and thallophytes 
will receive their proportionate share of attention, and it is hoped that 
frequent articles upon the fleshy fungi may respond to an increasing 
popular interest in this group. 
Contributions will be welcomed from anyone interested in the scien- 
tific study of the New England flora. A decided preference will be 
given to articles which embody some newly observed fact, tersely stated. 
We feel, however, that the power of making such contributions lies 
within the reach of almost every careful amateur as well as professional 
botanist. It is unusual to spend a vacation in collecting and identify- 
ing plants without finding some which extend known ranges, grow in 
unusual habitats or at unrecorded altitudes, exhibit exceptional morpho- 
logical features, or in some other way transgress those laws which scien- 
tists have considerately imposed upon them. Such observations, while 
seldom startling, are usually of scientific value, and surely worthy more 
permanent record than the customary pencil note upon the margin of 
some well-thumbed manual. 
