178 Trees and Shrubs of Massac/uisells. 



works upon these departments of botany. But I am obliged to confess, that 

 I have been able to do very little in regard to them. Since the commence- 

 ment of this Survey, my friend. Rev. J. L. Russell, ofHingham, has care- 

 fully prepared a catalogue of the mosses in the eastern part of the State, 

 whicli he was kind enough to place at my disposal. I was not willing that its 

 publication should be delayed till the appearance of this volume, and it has 

 been published in the Boston Journal of Natural History. Mr. Edward 

 Tuckerraan also prepared, at ray request, a catalogue of the lichens found on 

 the bark of trees in this Slate. As it is to be hoped that he will soon give 

 us a complete account of the lichens of New England, for which work he 

 is amply prepared, it would be doing him injustice to publish an imperfect 

 catalogue. The deficiency in the history of the Algae is likely to be soon 

 supplied, by Prof. Bailey, of West Point, in the thorough manner of which 

 he has given evidence in the Scientific Journal." p. 8. 



Through the kindly cooperation of many friends of the 

 author, and to the general subject, by personal inquiry and 

 inspection in various manufactories, ship-yards, saw-mills, on 

 farms, and in wood-lots, amidst primitive forests, and on 

 mountain ranges, Mr. E. was thus enabled to present a mass 

 of information, which will be received with that interest, 

 which it demands. The labor of preparation, it is to be seen, 

 must have been great, and the pursuit profitable as well as 

 interesting, in giving opportunities for personal acquaintance 

 with scenery, and also with habits of social life, to be found 

 in our State ; it remains for us to express our conviction that, 

 in a scientific or more practical point of view, this concluding 

 report will serve the noble purpose for which it was intended, 

 and help, with the aid of others of the entire series, to fulfil 

 the idea, which originally projected the Zoological and Bo- 

 tanical Survey of Massachusetts. 



To the lover of nature, to the highly cultivated taste, there 

 is scarcely any object so attractive as forest scenery, when 

 considered in all its merits, proportions and parts. At all 

 times of the year, the forests are objects of interest. When 

 full of leafy honors, their masses of vegetation afford indescri- 

 bable charms ; when the summer heats have abated, and 

 quiet autumn steals on apace, the innumerable tints of foliage 

 render so peculiar the American autumnal landscape, as to ap- 

 pear to those unfamiliar with the fact, in foreign countries, as a 

 pleasing tale, as some fancy of the painter or imagination of 

 the poet. When denuded and bare, their contour, outline or the 



