Bibliographies of Botany. 395 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 

 Watson, Sereno. 



Bibliographical index to North American botany ; or citations of authorities 

 ' for all the recorded indigenous and naturalized species of the flora of 

 North America, with a rhronological arrangement of the synonymy. 

 Washington, Published by the Smithsonian Institution, March, 1878. 

 ' . VI, 1., 476 p. 8°. 



(Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. No. 258.) 

 Contents: Part I: Polypetalae. — No more published. 

 Bibliography of American Botany. 1894—1899. 



A card catalogue of American botanical literature, arranged by authors. 

 Published by the Cambridge Botanical Supply Company, Cambridge. Mass. 

 Each title on separate card. "Prepared by a board of editors which inclu- 

 des . . . botanists of Columbia University, the National Herbarium and other 

 institutions, and published . . . under the direction of a committee of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science . . .'" 



The issue began in 1894, and the publication from this source covers 

 1894—1899 with 4357 cards. 



The entries were originally printed in the Bulletin of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, beginning with the issue for January, 1894. Each entry 

 was separately electrotyped, and the electrotypes became the property of 

 the Cambridge Botanical Supply Co , as the publisher of the cards. 



Bibliography of American Botany. 1900 — 



A card catalogue of American botanical literature, arranged bj' authors. 

 Published by the Torrey Botanical Club, New York City. Each title on 

 separate card. Prepared by the board of editors mentioned above (for the 

 years 1894—1899) until the end of 1902; since Jan., 1903, by John 

 Hendley Barnhart, Editor of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



The issue continues that above mentioned. Entries are printed in 

 the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. With January, 1900, the 

 electrotyping of the entries was abandoned, and few cards were printed 

 except those needed to supply entries in this form to subscribers. — Since 

 January, 1903, the entries have been reprinted monthly on thin paper, one 

 side only, each form, or sheet, corresponding to a page in the Bulletin of 

 the Torr. Bot. Club, and offered to subscribers. 



Card index of American plants. 



Card index of genera, species and varieties of [American] plants, [since 

 1885]. — Edited and published by Josephine A. Clark, Washington, 

 D. C, 1894—1903. 



The first issue, or installment, of cards, was published in Jan., 

 or Feb., 1894. Twenty issues appeared in all, the last in Nov., 1903, 

 when the editor transferred the work to the Gray Herbarium. The 

 twenty issues contained 27.998 cards. 



Card index of genera, species and varieties of American plants. — Edited 

 by Mary A. Day. Published by the Gray Herbarium , Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, Mass., 1904 — ' 



Continues the above. Published in quarterly issues, or installments 

 (Jan., April, July, Oct.). Issues 21—30 (1—21, see above) contain 

 20,660 cards. — Continued. 



