BULLETIN 187: FLORA OF VERMONT 

 List of Ferns and Seed Plants Growing Without Cultivation 



Prepared by Vermont Botanical Club 



INTRODUCTION 



The Vermont Botanical Club issued their first edition of the State 

 Flora in 1900. During the fifteen years that have since elapsed there 

 has been marked botanical activity, not only among the members of the 

 Vermont Club, but among professional students of the northeastern 

 United States. The two standard manuals for this region — the Gray 

 Manual and the Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora — have during this 

 period appeared in carefully revised editions, that present many addi- 

 tional species and numerous changes in nomenclature. 



Some four years ago the Vermont Botanical Club appointed a com- 

 mittee to prepare a revised edition of the State Flora, consisting of 

 W. W. Eggleston of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C, 

 George L. Kirk of Rutland, and J. G. Underwood of Hartland. These 

 gentlemen have labored with diligence and enthusiasm, and have had 

 the cooperation of the active members of the Club. The result of their 

 labors is presented in this new edition of the Vermont Flora. 



A special efifort has been made to report with more thoroughness 

 the distribution of plants in eastern Vermont. When the former edi- 

 tion was prepared there was no working botanist in that part of the 

 State. The editors were dependent for information chiefly upon the 

 herbarium of Mr. C. C. Frost of Brattleboro (who died in 1880) and 

 upon Prof. Henry G. Jesup's Catalogue of Flowering Plants found 

 within thirty miles of Hanover, N. H., covering a tract fully half of 

 which is in Vermont. As an indication of the help that has since 

 come to hand may be mentioned : 



1. The herbarium of Dr. F. Blanchard, now in the Fairbanks' 



Museum. 



2. A list of plants found in eastern Vermont l)y Mr. W. IT. 



Blanchard. 



3. A similar list prepared by the Hartland Nature Club. 



4. A list prepared by Mrs. Mack and Miss Strong of Woodstock. 



5. A list of the West River Valley plants by Lester A. Wheeler 



of Townshend. 



6. The plants of St. Johnsbury and vicinity by Miss Bridget M. 



Rooney. 

 Also for northern Vermont invaluable aid has been given liy the ad- 

 mirable reports on the Flora of Willoughby by Dr. Geo. G. Kennedy 

 (Rhodora 6: 91-134, June, 1904), and on the Flora of Burlington and 



