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of plants growing within our neighborhood, west of Niagara 

 River. In our citations from Professor Macoun's work, we have 

 not, it is true, confined ourselves to plants growing within a 

 radius of fifty miles from Buffalo — the limit chosen for the pur- 

 poses of our Catalogue — but we have brought into the list a 

 considerable number of species, which Mr. William Saunders 

 (a Corresponding Member of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sci- 

 ences), and T. I. W Burgess, M. B , of London, Ontario, have 

 detected growing in the vicinity of that place. But it must be 

 a satisfactory excuse, for departing from our own prescribed 

 rule, that we thus point out the fact to Buffalo botanists that a 

 few hours' travel is sufficient to bring them into a region pre- 

 senting so large a number of plants of a distinctly western char- 

 acter. 



It will be observed, no doubt with some surprise, that even of 

 the small but interesting family of Ferns, our Canadian friends 

 have made Foster's Flats, the " Yo Semite" of Niagara River, 

 to yield to them two rare species, whose existence, in that much 

 frequented resort of the botanists of our city, had remained by 

 them unknown and unsuspected. 



The name of no plant is presented in this Supplement, whose 

 growth in the locality mentioned in connection with it, is to us 

 a matter of doubt. Yet the fact should be understood that we 

 desire to be held responsible only for those species of which we 

 have seen specimens. This will exclude the plants mentioned 

 only on the authority of the Canadian botanists and of Mr. 

 E. C. Townsend. 



The asterisk, prefixed to the name of any plant in the follow- 

 ing list, indicates that such name is new to our catalogue. The 

 other names in the list are given because of the locality being 

 new, or because some other reason made mention of them neces- 

 sary or proper. 



This Supplement has increased the number of known genera 

 of plants, growing within the distance of fifty miles from Buf- 

 falo, to 954, and that of the known species and varieties to 2895. 



July 10, 1886. 



