CATALOG OF PLANTS. 
This list is merely intended as a rough guide and not a com- 
plete list of the things which have been or are being cultivated in 
the territory covered by this work. It contains the plants that 
the writer has tried sufficiently to form some idea as to what 
they may be expected to do here; those that have come under 
his notice in the grounds of others, and most of those that have 
been cultivated in the state of which he has authentic informa- 
tion. A considerable number of species have been grown here 
of which the writer has had only hearsay information and these, 
for the most part, have not been discussed. In a few cases I 
have mentioned plants that, so far as I know, have not been intro- 
duced; things of considerable importance which ought to be 
tried here. 
I have not attempted to follow the nomenclature adopted by 
any one. No two authors agree in the names they use for any 
set of plants; in fact, no author that I know of agrees with him- 
self if he publishes the same list more than once. I have made 
no attempt to use the latest applied names; in order to do this 
it would be necessary to have access to extensive libraries, and 
the latest names only hold good until someone publishes again. 
The descriptions in many of the botanies and plant ency- 
clopedias are lamentably brief and unsatisfactory and in numer- 
ous instances where keys are given they do not lead the student 
to the plant he is trying to identify. I have not attempted to 
describe the species here listed as, in order to do so, it would be 
necessary to extend the work beyond reasonable limits, but I 
have pointed out in many cases the most obvious characters 
of the plants discussed. The arrangement followed here is 
essentially the same as that used in my Plants of Dade County. 
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