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The many interesting and rare Avild plants that are frequently 

 brought here for exhibition and then thrown away could be 

 pressed and saved for continual reference if such a space were 

 provided. Many of the plants that are sent in yearly by children 

 could be secured. They would make our books more serviceable, 

 and on the other hand our books would make the specimens more 

 serviceable. The means of study would be more complete. 



Interest in wild plants has been increasing for some years past. 

 Asters have been cross-fertilized. The variety and beauty of asters 

 at some of our recent exhibitions have been remarkable, and the 

 displays of rare and interesting wild plants exhibited by au 

 increased number of persons should suggest to us the idea of 

 furnishing the valuable means of plant study and identification to 

 be found in choice herbarium specimens. 



REPORT ON THE GEORGE PUTNAM SCHOOL GARDEN 

 SEASON OF 1894. 



The plants named below were introduced into the garden durmg 

 the season of 1894 : 



FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Aster acuminatus. Gaultheria procumhens. 



" ^wmce MS (large variety). Hieracium scahrum. 



Chelidonium majus. Solidago latifolia. 

 Clematis Vtrginiana. " sempervirens. 



Dalibarda repens. " squarrosa. 



EpigcBa repens. Viola p)uhescens. 



FERNS. 



Adiantum pedattim. Botrycliium ternatum. 

 Aspidium acrostichoides var. " ternatum var. dis- 



incisum. sectum. 



" cristatum. " Virginianum. 



" marginale. C>/stopteris fragilis. 



" spinulosum, type and Onodea sensibilis var. obtusi- 



var. Boottii. lobata. 



" spinnlosunixdiV. inter- " Struthiopteris. 



medium. Osmunda cinnaniomea. 



" Thelypteris. Phegopteris Dryopteris. 



Asplenium ebeneum. " pohjpodioides . 



" thelypteroides. Woodsia Ilvensis. 



