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Affinities of the Monroe Flora. 
General Comparison. 
Comparison with the Cayuga Flora. 
Plants common to the Monroe and Cayuga Floras, 
Comparison with the Buffalo Flora. 
Plants common to the Monroe and Buffalo Floras. 
Comparison of Cayuga and Buffalo Floras. 
Plants common to the Cayuga and Buffalo Floras. 
List of Plants peculiar to each of the three Floras. 
Plants peculiar to the Monroe Flora. 
Plants peculiar to the Cayuga Flora. 
Plants peculiar to the Buffalo Flora. 
Physical Characters of the Region, by H. L. Fairchild. 
Geography and Hydrography. 
Topography and Altitudes. 
List of Elevations. 
Geology. 
Stratigraphy. 
Pleistocene Drift. 
Influence upon Plant-life. 
Climatic Conditions. 
Statistics of Climate at Rochester. 
Date of earliest blossoming of Trees. 
The Catalogue. 
Explanation of Plan, 
Authorities, 
Topography and Reference Marks 
List of Phanerogams. 
List of Vascular Acrogens. 
Bibliography 
Corrections and Insertions. 
Index to Orders and Genera. 
The work is made up of two main parts, the introduction and 
the catalogue proper. The plan of the whole work is similar to 
Professor Dudley’s Cayuga Flora. There is lacking in it the evi- 
dence of painstaking research by the authors, so evident in every 
page of Professor Dudley’s book. ‘The committee have collated 
all the lists of plants of this vicinity which they have been able to 
obtain, have examined the specimens in the herbarium of the 
Academy, and have used all available sources of information.” 
The list includes phanerogams and vascular acrogens. The 
unstable condition of botanical nomenclature apparently subjected 
the committee to some embarrassment. They used the old no- 
menclature in order to make the work “immediately useful to the 
