The section was entitled. "Forest Trees and ( )ther X^egetahle i'roductiuns", 

 and was written l)y Belknap with the acknowledged assistance (jf the bot- 

 anists Manasseh Cutler and William D. IVck. Along with some general 

 discussion of forests, there was a list of the principal kinds of trees known 

 at that time in Xew Hampshire with some specific information about each. 



The only list of all the vascular plants of New Hampshire that has ever 

 been attempted was by William F. Flint and appeared in C. H. Hitchcock's 

 Geology of Nci^' Hauipshirc. jn. 1. 1874. i)p. 381-445. A number of obvious 

 errors in the stated occurrences of woody species are evident, but for the 

 Connecticut X'allev. at least, there are some interesting records. Flint's 

 annotated list of "Trees and Shrubs Comprising the New Hampshire 

 Forests" appeared in 1885 in the report of the first Forestry Commission 

 with no striking emendations of the woody plants of his earlier list. John 

 Foster's, Trees and Shrubs of A'r'zc' Hampshire, which first appeared in 

 the Biennial Report of the State Forestry Commission for 1929-30 and 

 which has been discussed earlier, has been the only other inclusive work 

 on the woody plants of New Hampsliire. 



Several areas besides Coos County in the state have their local floras. 

 I'^or the Hanover region. Henry Griswold Jesup's first catalogue appeared 

 in 1879. His final treatment, bearing the title Flora and Fauna Within- 

 Thirty Miles of Hanover, Nezc Hampshire, was published in 1891. \\4iile 

 hardly more than a list, there are occasional references to stations for 

 certain more rare species, including some woody plants. 



The Manchester area is covered botanically by Frederic \\'. Batchelder's 

 Preliminary List of Plants Gron'ing Without Cultivation in the J'icinity 

 of Manchester, Nezv Hampshire, which was published in 1900 in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Manchester Institute of Science and by his complete re- 

 vision of this same catalogue in 1909. Batchelder's study covered Hills- 

 borough County, the western part of Rockingham County, and the south- 

 ern part of Merrimack County. It has also been a valuable work of re- 

 ference on the woody plants of the area covered. The only remaining flora 

 to have embraced any considerable area was the Flora of Strafford County, 

 A\'zc Hampshire, an M. S. thesis by A. R. Hodgdon in 1932. This rela- 

 tively non-critical study pioneered in an entirely neglected and very promis- 

 ing part of the state. It now seems to be most important as having served 

 as a basis for continuing investigation of the area up to the present time. 

 Some of the specimens of Jesup and his collaborators are located at Dart- 

 mouth College, but many are present in the University of New Hampshire 

 herbarium. The earlier Batchelder collections were burned, but those he 

 collected later in life are present in the Manchester Institute of Arts and 

 Science. Those of Hodgdon's Strafiiord Countv study are part of the col- 

 lection at the University of New Hampshire. 



There are many less ambitious works in our area, such as floras of 

 townships. However, unless these are supported by collections, they are 

 not very helpful except as careful descriptive information is provided 

 which usually does not happen. In general, then, such unverifiable lists are 

 omitted from this discussion. 



A detailed floristic investigation of the Swift River Valley, covering 

 parts of Albany, W'aterville. and Livermore. by Martha Gale, resulted in 

 an unpublished University of New Hampshire thesis in 1949 entitled "Vas- 

 cular Flora of the Swift River Watershed in Grafton and Carroll Counties". 



