CATALOGUE OF THE FLORA OF "OAK ISLAND," 

 REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS : WITH NOTES. 



By Herbekt a. Young. 



INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. 



By John Robinson. 



"Oak Island," or " Chelsea Beach Island," as it was 

 called before North Chelsea was rechristened Revere, is 

 a slight elevation of land, covered with trees, hardly 

 reaching more than three or four feet above the surround- 

 ing saltniarsh, within the limits of the town of Revere, 

 Massachusetts, and just a few rods beyond the inlet which 

 separates that town from the town of Saugus in Essex 

 County. 



The island begins at about 800 feet back from what is 

 now called Revere beach, with a strip of land running 

 north and south 1,000 feet, having a breadth of 100 feet 

 which is connected with the larger portion of the island 

 which runs east and west some 1,400 feet, and has a 

 breadth of 800 feet. This latter portion is divided into 

 two unequal parts by the Eastern Railway which runs 

 through it north and south. The Salem and Boston turn- 

 pike road runs by the island to the west at a distance of 

 about a quarter of a mile. Formerly this station was only 

 accessil^le to pedestrians and to the salt hay teams by a 

 rough road from the beach. 



Kecently, however, with the opening of Revere beach 

 as a pleasure resort, a picnic ground with its accompany- 



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