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printed in italics, but have not referred, except incidentally, to the 

 constantly varying herbaceous annuals, etc., of the parterre. The 

 time given in the Procession of the Flowers is the time at which they 

 commence to bloom, which was ascertained from an observation of 

 several years. I have endeavored not to place the date too early, but 

 at such a time as a collector might reasonably expect to find the flow- 

 ers. The dates given will be found to apply fairly well for Massachu- 

 setts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. 



A lover of wild flowers has planted in the woods and fields about 

 Nonquitt : Hepatica acutiloba, Sanguinaria Canadensis, Tiarella cordi- 

 folia, Asarum Canadense, Trillium erectum, Viola Canadensis, Calluna 

 vulgaris, and Cytisus scoparius. These plants are not native, but ap- 

 pear to be well established, and doubtless will in rime become dissemi- 

 nated. 



The latitude of New Bedford is 41 deg. 88 min. north latitude ; av- 

 erage mean temperature for the past 78 years, 48.39 degrees Fahren- 

 height (extreme range for the past eight years, from 10^^ deg. below 

 to 91 deg. above zero) ; and average annual rainfall for the past 77 

 years, 46| inches, as shown by the records of Capt. Thos. R. Rodman. 



There are no very high elevations of land in this district, the high- 

 est being near Faunce's Corner, which is two hundred feet above the 

 sea level. 



I am indebted to Mr. Henry Willey for some of the rarer ferns and 

 orchids, to Mr. Rol)ert C. Ingraham for the valuable list of Musci and 

 Hepatica% page 73, the foregoing gentlemen of this city, and to Dr. 

 E. Lewis Sturtevant, of South Framingham, who has botanized for 

 two seasons about Nonquitt, and generously given me the results of 

 his researches, thereby adding to the completeness of the Flora. 



The whole number of plants enumerated as growing spontaneously, 

 including Hepaticse and Musci, is 1228; cultivated, not native and 

 largely of foreign origin, not including garden annuals, '2'!'^ ; total. 



