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signed, a corresponding member of the Society, and compiler 

 of this second edition of the Catalogue of the Plants of Maine. 



There has been as yet so little attention paid in Maine to the 

 Cellular Cryptogams, that it is considered feasible in this prelim- 

 inary work to omit these sections entirely, for if enumerated they 

 would add many hundreds to our Catalogue. There is no more 

 ample field for work or discovery in Maine that can be presented 

 to a diligent and observing student, than the collection and criti- 

 cal study of Mosses, HepaticaB, Fungi, etc. It is hoped that in 

 the near future merited attention will be paid to these Flower- 

 less Plants. 



In compiling this Catalogue my chief source of information has 

 been, of course, the original "Portland Catalogue," so carefully 

 prepared by Prof. Geo. L. Goodale and the late Rev. Joseph 

 Blake. The facts there recorded have been supplemented by notes 

 from seventy or more collectors, prominent among whom may be 

 mentioned Prof. G. L. Goodale, Prof. F. Lamson Scribner, Rev. 

 Joseph Blake, Miss Kate Furbish, Mr. Edward L. Rand, Mr. 

 John H. Redfield, Mr. C. E. Smith, Mr. John A. Allen, and Mr. 

 John C. Parlin, to which are added the collections of the author. 



It may not be out of place for me here to publicly express my 

 appreciation of all the help rendered by my many correspondents, 

 and to ask that in the future they will aid in making this under- 

 taking a success, by continuing the interest of the past. 



I have followed Bentham and Hooker's Genera Plantarum in 

 the arrangement of Orders and Genera. While in the case of 

 the class Gymnospermce, it would perhaps have been well to fol- 

 low the more natural system of placing it between the Mono- 

 cotyledonoe and the Pteridopliyta, yet it has been thought better 

 to follow closely the sequence adopted by Gray. 



So also the names in some cases might have been changed with 

 advantage, but it was decided to follow the nomenclature of the 



