1904] Kennedy, Flora of Willoughby 97 



Alphonso Wood (1810-1881) was the first botanist to visit Wil- 

 loughby and publish any names of plants there collected, and the 

 only reference to his visit I have been able to find is in the second 

 edition of his Class Book of Botany, 1 where under Saxifraga aizoides, 

 L. and S. oppositifolia, L. he says he discovered these in August, 

 1845, m tne clefts of rocks, Willoughby Mt, 500 feet above the lake. 



In July, 1852, C. C. Frost and Rev. A. H. Clapp of Brattleboro, 

 Vermont, visited Willoughby and their trip is described by John L. 

 Russell of Salem, Massachusetts, in Hovey's Magazine, for Novem- 

 ber, 1852. 2 The mountain is there called Pisgah or Annance ; the 

 latter a name of "a chief of the St. Francis tribe of Indians." They 

 say " the region had been explored some years previous by Mr. Wood, 

 a botanist of merit, and through whose remarkable discoveries there, 

 our tourist was induced to visit the spot." Forty-seven flowering 

 plants and ferns and four mosses are mentioned as found at Wil- 

 loughby and as this makes the first list of plants of the region I give 

 it here a list of names only, no authors cited but here rearranged 

 more nearly after modern methods. 



Hypnum splendens Rosa blanda 



" crista-castrensis Rubus occidentalis 



umbratum " odoratus 



" cupressiforme " strigosus 



Pteris atropurpurea Rubus triflorus 



Woodsia glabella Hedysarum boreale 



Cupressus thyoides Phaca Robbinsii 



Thuya occidentalis Vitis cordifolia 



Calamagrostis Canadensis Helianthemum Canadense 



Danthonia spicata Circaea alpina 



Lolium perenne Oenothera fruticosa 



Muhlenbergia sylvatica Primula Mistassinica 



Oryzopsis melanocarpa Apocynum hypericifolium 



Panicum depauperatum Asclepias Cornuti 



" nitidum " quadrifolia 



Carex eburnea Lonicera ciliata 



" scirpoidea Campanula rotundifolia 



Clintonia borealis Achillaea Millefolium 



Anemone cylindrica Antennaria margaritacea 



Virginiana Artemisia Canadensis 



Clematis Virginiana Cirsium lanceolatum 



Arabis lyrata Eupatorium ageratoides 



Draba arabisans purpureum 



Saxifraga aizoides Solidago corymbosus 



oppositifolia " lanceolatus 

 Fragaria Virginiana 



1 Wood, Class Book., ed. 2 (1847) 2 79- 



2 J. L. Russell, Hovey's Mag. Hort. xviii. (1852) 481-485. 



