North American Flora 



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HIS work is designed to present descriptions of all plants growing independently 

 of cultivation, in North America, here taken to include Greenland, Central 

 America, the Republic of Panama, and the West Indies, except Trinidad, 

 Tobago, and Curagao and other islands off the north* coast of Venezula, whose flora is 

 essentially South American. 



It will be published in parts at irregular intervals by the New York Botanical 

 Garden through the aid of the income of the David Lydig Fund bequeathed by Charles 



P. Daly. 



It is planned to issue parts as rapidly as they can be prepared, the extent or 



the work making it possible to commence publication at any number of points. 



The completed work will form a series of volumes with the following sequence : 



Volume I. Mycetozoa, Schizophyta, Diatomaceae. 



Volume 2 to lO. Fungi. 



Volumes ii to 13. Algae. 



Volumes 14 and 15. Bryophyta. 



Volume 16. Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae. 



Volumes 17 to 19. Monocotyledones. 



Volumes 20 to 30. Dicotyledones. 



The preparation of the work has been referred by the Scientific Directors of the 

 Garden to a committee consisting of Dr. N. L, Britton, Dr. W. A. Murrill and Dr. 

 J. II. Barnhart. 



Professor George F. Atkinson, of Cornell University, Professors Charles R. Barnes 

 and John M. Coulter, of the University of Chicago, Mr, Frederick V. Coville, of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Professor Edward L. Greene, of the United 

 States National Museum, Professor Byron D, Halsted, of Rutgers College, and Pro- 

 fessor William Trelease, of the Missouri Botanical Garden, have consented to act as 

 an advisory committee. 



Vol. 7, Part I, Ustilaginales, including Ustilaginaceae and Tilletiaceae, by G. P. 

 Clinton, was issued Oct. 4, 1906. Vol. 7, Part 2, Coleosporiaceae, Uredinaceae, and 

 Aecidiaceae (pars), of the Uredinales, by J. C. Arthur, was issued March 6, 1907. 

 Vol. 9, Parts I and 2, Polyporaceae, by W. A. Murrill, were issued Dec. 19, 1907, and 

 March 12, 1908. Vol. 22, Part I, including Podostemonaceae by George V. Xa^h, 

 Crassulaceae by N. L. Britton and J. N. Rose, and Penthoraceae and Parnassiaceae 

 by P. A. Rydberg, was issued May 22, 1905. Vol. 22, Part 2, including Saxifra- 

 g-aceae and Hydrangeaceae by J. K. Small and P. A. Rydberg, Cunoniaceae, 

 Iteaceae, and Hamamelidaceae by N. L. Britton, Pterostemonaceac by J. K. Small, 

 Altingiaceae by Percy Wilson, and Phyllonomaceae by H. H. Rusby, was issued Dec. 

 18, 1905. Vol. 22, Part 3, Grossulariaceae by F, V. Coville and N. L. Britton, 

 Platanaceae by H. A. Gleason, Crossosomataceae by J K. Small, Connaraceae hy N. 

 L. Britton, Calycanthaceae by C. L. Pollard, and Rosaceae (pars) by P. A. Rydberg, 

 was issued June T2, 1908. Vol. 22, Part 4, Rosaceae (pars) by P. A. Rydberg, was 

 ssued Nov. 20, 1908. Vol. 25, Part I, including Geraniaceae by L. T. Hanks 

 and J. K. Small, Oxalidaceae and Linaceae by J, K. Small, and Erythroxylaceae by 

 N. L. Britton, was issued Aug. 24, 1907. 



The subscription price is 'fixed at $1.50 for each part; it is expected that four or 

 five parts will be required for each volume. A limited number of separate parts will 

 be sold at ;^ 2. 00 each. Addre-s 



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