ABBREVIATIONS, ETC. 129 
% A perfect flower, or a plant bearing perfect flowers. 
8 Moneecious, or a plant with staminate and pistillate flowers. 
9¢ Dicecious; staminate and pistillate flowers on separate plants. 
Y 6g Polygamous; the same species with staminate, pistillate, and perfect flowers. 
0 Wanting or none. ; 
00 Indefinite, or numerous. 
0= Cotyledons accumbent. 
0 || Cotyledons incumbent. 
0>> Cotyledons conduplicate. 
} A naturalized plant. 
A plant cultivated for ornament. 
t A plant cultivated for use. This, with the two last, are placed at the end of a 
description. In other situations they have their usual signification as marks of 
division or reference. In measure of length, or other dimensions, the following signs 
are adopted in this work : — 
f (without the period) A foot. 
! (a single accent) An inch. 
!’ (a double accent) A line (one twelfth of /). 
! The note of exclamation, now common in botanical works, is used in contrariety 
to the note of interrogation (?). It denotes, in general, certainty from personal obser- 
vation. Affixed to a locality, it denotes that the writer has examined specimens 
either in or from that place. Affixed to the name of an individual, it.denotes that 
the writer has examined specimens supplied by him. In this work the note of affir- 
mation is used only where the fact stated or implied is somewhat mew, or might 
otherwise have been regarded as doubtful. 
Authors’ names, when of more than one syllable, are usually abbreviated by 
writing the first syllable and the next following or last consonant. The following 
are nearly all the names thus abridged in this work: — 
Used only in the Cruciferee. 
ee aoe 
gh. rdh. 
Ait. Aiton. 
Arn. Arnott. 
Bart. Barton. ° 
Benth. Bentham. 
Berl. Berlandier. 
Bernh. Bernhardi. 
Brongn. Brongniart. 
Bigl. or Bw. Bigelow. 
Boehm. Boehmer. 
Bong. Bongard. 
Br. Brown. 
Cass. Cassini. 
Cav. Cavanilles. 
Darl. Darlington. 
DC. De Candolle. 
Desf. Desfontaines. 
Desv. Desvaux. 
Dew. Dewey. 
Duh. Duhamel. 
Endl. Endlicher. 
Ehrh. Ehrhart. 
Ell. Elliot. 
Engel. Engelman. 
Forsk. Forskahl. 
Freel. Freelich. 
Geert. Geertner. 
Ging. Gingins. 
Gmel. Gmelin. 
Gron. Gronovius. 
Hedw. Hedwig. 
Hoffm. Hoffmann. 
Hook. Hooker. 
Juss. Jussieu. 
Lam. Lamark. 
Lec. Le Conte. 
Lind]. Lindley. 
Linn.* Linnzus. 
Lk. Link. 
Lehm. Lehmann. 
Mart. Martius. 
Mentz. Mentzel. 
Michx. Michaux. 
Mill. Miller. 
Mirb. Mirbel. 
Meench. Meenchausen. 
Muhl. Muhlenberg. 
Nutt. Nuttall. 
Pers. Persoon. 
Pall. Pallas. 
Pav. Pavon. 
Poir. Poiret. 
Ph. Pursh. 
R. Br. Robert Brown. 
Raf. Rafinesque. 
Rich. Richard. 
Schw. Schwenitz. 
Scop. Scopoli. 
Ser. Seringe. 
Schk. Schkuhr. 
Sm. Smith. 
Spr. Sprengel. 
Sw. Swartz. 
T. & G. Torrey & Gray. 
Torr. Torrey. 
Tourn. Tournefort. 
Traut. Trautvetter. 
Willd. Willdenow. 
Walt. Walter. 
ANALYTICAL TABLES. » 
The object of scientific tables is usually twofold. First, philosophical ;— to ex- 
hibit in one condensed view the affinities and differences of the several subjects to 
which they relate, by bringing them into immediate comparison and contrast. 
Second, practical; — to aid the student in his researches by affording him an 
abridged method of analysis. The analytica. tables which accompany this flora 
may subserve both these purposes, but they are designed chiefly for the latter; viz. 
* In this flora, wherever no authority is added to the generic or specific name, Linn. is to be 
understood. 
