

FLORA OF VERMONT 



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PREFACE 



It is now twelve years since the last edition of Professor Perkins' Flora 

 of Vermont was published. The supi)ly of the Tenth Report of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, which contained that publication, has for some 

 time been exhausted so that it is increasingly difficult to secure copies of 

 it. INIoreover these twelve years have included a period of intense activity in 

 systematic botany in the Eastern States, and they have witnessed consid- 

 erable additions to the knowledge of Vermont plants. The Vermont 

 Botanical Club was organized five years ago for the chief purpose of adding 

 to and recording this knowledge. The present catalogue has been pre- 

 pared by a committee acting for the Club, and it aims to set forth briefly 

 the facts as at present known to Vermont botanists regarding the occur- 

 rence and distribution of the higher plants in the state. It is unnecessary 

 to say that the list is provisional and incomplete. Students of the Vermont 

 Flora will doubtless make yearly additions and corrections to this cata- 

 logue, until the time once more arrives when a new one will be neces- 

 sary. The present list stands merely as a report of progress, and the most 

 that is hoped is that it will prove a stimulus and aid to further advance- 

 ment. 



The list is intended to include the names of all of the seed and fern 

 plants known to occur as native or apart from cultivation within the state. 

 Much pains has been taken to verify doubtful specimens. Where no other 

 authority is given for the determination of thespecies or its insertion in the 

 list, the plants have been personally examined by this committee. In 

 every case where a name is admitted to the main list there is an authenti- 

 cated specimen deposited in one or more of the permanent herbaria of the 

 state, or in such other herbarium as is indicated in the accompanying note. 

 The invariable rule has been to admit no name which has not an extant 

 specimen back of it. This has necessarily led to the exclusion of a number 

 of names of plants reported by earlier botanists. In many of these cases 

 the evidence is such as to leave little doubt that the plants actually 

 occurred as reported, and probably many of them will be rediscovered. 

 The names of such plants are included in a supplementary list at the end 

 of the main catalogue, and each name so appearing should be considered as 

 •a challenge to the sagacity of present botanists until the plant is again 



