10 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HISTORY SURVEY [Bull. 



important bulletins the Survey has published. The Connecticut 

 Botanical Society includes about one hundred members, some of 

 them professional botanists, others amateur students of the 

 science. For a number of years the members of this Society 

 have given a great deal of time to the collection and study of the 

 flowering plants and ferns of the state, and the work of the 

 various members has been carefully collated by a Committee 

 whose names are given above in the title of the bulletin. Soon 

 after the organization of the Geological and Natural History 

 Survey, the Superintendent of the Survey learned of the pro- 

 posed work of the Connecticut Botanical Society, and invited 

 them to offer the Catalogue, when completed, to be published as 

 a bulletin of the Survey. The entire work has been a labor of 

 love on the part of the members of the Committee and many of 

 their associates. The Surrey has paid three hundred dollars for 

 incidental expenses, but no compensation has been received by 

 any of the workers. The completed work makes a book of five 

 hundred and sixty-nine pages. It gives a list complete, accord- 

 ing to present knowledge, of the flowering plants and ferns 

 (including the closely allied club mosses and scouring rushes) 

 growing without cultivation within the limits of the state. The 

 scientific names adopted for the respective plants, are, in general, 

 the same which are used in the Seventh Edition of Gray's Man- 

 ual, a book which is widely accepted as a standard in the schools. 

 While no attempt has been made to give a complete record of 

 synonyms, the names which have been in somewhat general use 

 are given as a matter of convenience. English names of the 

 different species are very fully given, including, so far as known, 

 the often whimsical names in use in particular localities or among 

 particular classes of people. Full information is given in regard 

 to the distribution of the plants over the state. In the case of 

 rare species, and species local or peculiar in distribution, par- 

 ticular localities are mentioned with the names of the collectors. 

 Attention is called to all plants having important economic re- 

 lations, both those which are useful, and those which are injurious. 

 Analytical keys and descriptions are not included in the work, 

 since the Seventh Edition of Gray's Manual is readily accessible 

 and cheap, and will doubtless be in the hands of almost everyone 

 who would wish to use this book. In the introduction is given an 

 interesting history of botanical work in the state from the earliest 



