Vlll PREFACE. 



P. D. Knieskern, M. D. "A Catalogue of Plants growing 

 without cultivation in the counties of Monmouth and Ocean, 

 N. J., being part of the Annual Report of Geological Survey of 

 New Jersey, for 1856." Forty-one pages, enumerating all the 

 Phanerogams and Acrogenous Cryptogams then known to grow 

 in those counties. Since that time many additions have been 

 made to this list. 



Samuel Ashmead. "A List of Plants and a Catalogue of 

 Marine Alga? collected on the coast of Egg Harbor, at and near 

 Beesley's Point." Geological Report of Cape May county, 

 Trenton, 1857 ; pp. 149-154. 



O. R. Willis, Ph.D. " Catalogue of Plants growing without 

 cultivation in the State of New Jersey." New York, 1874; 

 revised edition, 1878. This is a book of eighty-four pages and 

 a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the New Jersey 

 Flora. 



C. F. Austin, in his sets of " Musci Appalachian!" and 

 " Hepaticse Boreali-Americanse," and in descriptions of many 

 new species of Mosses and Liverworts in the " Bulletin of the 

 Torrey Bontauical Club," and the " Botanical Gazette," con- 

 tributed largely to the literature of the Bryology of the State. 



In 1870, William H. Leggett, editor of the "Bulletin of the 

 Torrey Club," began in the " Bulletin " the publication of a 

 revised catalogue of plants, with the same geographical range as 

 the one by Dr. Torrey, above mentioned. He was assisted by 

 the Club in this work, which is now finished up to the 

 Graminese, and has furnished a large number of valuable notes 

 on localities. 



In addition to these longer lists, a number of notes on the 

 local Floras of various places have been from time to time pub- 

 lished in the Torrey Club's " Bulletin," and have proved of 

 considerable use. 



Mr. Addison Brown, Vice-President of the Torrey Club, has 

 made a study of the plants found growing on land made from 

 material brought in ballast, in the vicinity of New York, and 

 has published lists of them. (See Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. 



