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made and mounted, when at all, with equal care — attached with glue 

 in the modern way to paper corresponding to the ledger paper of 

 today in sheets cut 10% by 1534 inches. Barratt was particular about 

 this paper and speaks of having it made to order for him. Like most 

 botanists of his time, he was not so particular about data. However, 

 a good proportion of his plants are fully labelled with date and place 

 of collection and collector's name. Others have a place without a 

 date or a date without a place, and too many only the name of 

 the plant and some references to literature. But in respect to 

 data his herbarium is a model compared to that of Brace. 1 There 

 are specimens from many American botanists of the period. S. B. 

 Buckley, once his pupil, sent him numerous plants from the 

 central and southern United States, in particular a fine set of southern 

 Rynchospora. There is original material of Cyperus diandrus from 

 Torrey, Euphorbia Darlingtonii from Darlington and Carcx Barrattii 

 from Knieskern. There are a number of duplicates of Hooker's 

 willows from the collections of Drummond in the Rocky Mountains 

 and of Richardson and Morison in arctic North America. Chap- 

 man, Le Conte, Sartwell, Boykin, Short, J. Hale, Schweinitz, Dewey, 

 Carey, Sullivant, Lapham, Boott and Oakes are among the names 

 which appear on his labels. From Europe he has plants from H. 

 Shepard of the Liverpool Botanic Garden, John Ball, J. S. Henslow, 

 De Candolle, Jacquin, etc. Of his own collecting there are a good 

 many plants from near Philipstown, a few from the White Mountains 

 and central New York and a representation of the local flora about 

 Middletovn which is very fair throughout and excellent in t lit* 

 groups which he especially studied. With some assistance from 

 later collections it would still serve as a good basis for a catalogue 

 of the local plants. 



1 am indebted for generous aid in the preparation of this paper to 

 Miss Laura Philbrook, formerly of the Middletown Public Library; 

 Professor William North Rice of W^esleyan University; Dr. John 

 Hendley Larnhart of the New York Botanical Garden; and especially 

 to Mr. John H. Sage of Portland, Conn., without whose interest and 

 co-operati' m I could hardly have secured many needed faets, and Mr. 

 C. H. Bis:- ell of Southington, Conn., who first suggested the writing 

 of such a paper and who had so large a part in the preliminary work 



1 Bee Rhoi'Oka, xvi. 83ff. 



