PREFACE 



This Catalogue of the Flora of New Jersey is intended for a 

 preliminary tentative list of the plants hitherto found growing 

 without cultivation in the State, with localities for all the rarer 

 species. It is printed with interleaved pages, the blank ones 

 being intended for additional notes on localitv and distribution, 



*/ 



and for corrections. A copy is sent to every amateur and pro- 

 fessional botanist in New Jersey and the surrounding parts of 

 other States as far as known.* It is requested that the books 

 be returned to Prof. George H. Cook, State Geologist, New 

 Brunswick, N. J., at the close of next season (1882), with all 

 additions and corrections that botanists may report or suggest. 

 It is hoped to obtain in this manner all that is at present known 

 about the geographical and geological distribution, and frequency 

 of occurrence of all the plants growing wild within the Stale. 

 The final revised catalogue will be made up from these data at 

 a future time. 



LITERATURE OF THE SUBJECT. 



The following authors have been consulted in the work of 

 compilation : 



John Torrey, M.D. "A Catalogue of Plants growing spon- 

 taneously within thirty miles of the city of New York." 

 Albany, 1819. This is a one-hundred-paged pamphlet, con- 

 taining many valuable notes on the occurrence of plants in the 

 counties near New York. 



* Additional copies may be obtained on application to the State Geologist. 



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