

X. CATALOGUE OF PLANTS, 



GROWING WITHOUT CULTIVATION. 



In the arrangement of the following Catalogue, I have followed, as the la- 

 test and most accurate, the Natural System of Prof. Lindley, as adapted to 

 North American Plants by Professor Torrey. The sources from which I have 

 derived materials for constructing this list, are mainly the following : First, 

 Professor Bigelow's "Collection of Plants of Boston and its vicinity." (1824.) 

 Secondly, " A Catalogue of Plants Growing without cultivation in the vicinity 

 of Amherst College ;" (1829,) with tuch additions and corrections as I have 

 been able to make since the time of its publication. Thirdly, Professor Dewey'a 

 Catalogue of Plants found m the County of Berkshire, (1829,) inserted in the 

 History of Berkshire. Fourthly, the manuscript communications of Thomas 



A. Greene Esq. containing a notice of such plants as he has discovered in the 

 vicinity of New Bedford and on the island of Nantucket, not mentioned in the 

 last edition of Bigelow's " Florula Bostoniensis- " 



To the Latin or scientific names of the plants, I have attached their common 

 names, whenever I could ascertain that they have excited attention enough to 

 receive a common name. But it will be seen that comparatively few of our 

 plants have received common names. 



When a capital A. is attached to a species, it implies that the plant grows in 

 the vicinity of Amherst : B implies that it occurs in the vicinity of Boston: N. 



B. that it is found in the region around New Bedford; and B e that Berkshire 

 County is its place of growth. In other cases, especially where the species is 

 very rare, the name of the town where it .occurs is mentioned. When no lo- 

 cal designation is annexed, I have reason to suppose that the plant may be 

 found in any part of the State of considerable extent. In some of the flower- 

 less plants, however, there is an exception to this remark ; as will be mention, 

 ed under Muscoideae. 



In reducing our plants to the Natural Orders I have received the assistance 

 of Dr. John Blodget of A inherit. 



