

DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. 



District of Massachusetts, to wit. 



BE it remembered, that on the 21st clay of May, 1814, and in the thir- 

 ty eighth year of the independence of the United States of America, JA- 

 COB BIGELOW of the said district has deposited in this office the title of 

 a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, 

 to wit, " Florida Bostoniensis : A collection of Plants of Boston and its 

 environs, with their generic and specific characters, synonyms, descrip- 

 tions, places of growth, and time of flowering, and oceasional remarks. 

 Br JACOB BIGELOW, M. D." 



In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, enti- 

 tled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies 

 of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies 

 during the times therein mentioned :" and also to an Act entitled, " An 

 Act supplementary to an Act entitled, An Act for the encouragement of 

 learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors 

 and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ; and 

 extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and 

 clshiog historical and other prints." 



Wo eu * iir Clerk of the District 

 . S., SHAW, s f n/i , 

 ' c oj Massachusetts. 



