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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