TORRE YA 



Vol. 42 November-December No. 6 



Some Local Names of Plants — ^VIII * 



W. L. McAtee 



Correspondents have kindly continued to send local names of 

 plants, and the writer has been able to glean many in the course of 

 bibliographic research on birds. Noteworthy accumulations since 

 the last report are here systematically recorded and alphabetically 

 indexed. A short list of Literature Cited and suggestions toward 

 a bibliography of plant vernaculars also are given. The order of 

 the terms is chiefly that of Heller's "Catalogue of North American 

 Plants," 2nd edit., 1900, and the nomenclature principally that of 

 Britton and Brown's "Illustrated Flora," 2nd edit., 1936. 



It may interest readers of Torreya that in 1881, W. R. Gerard, 

 one of the editors of the Torrey Bulletin, announced an under- 

 taking to collect and arrange the common names of United States 

 plants (Amer. Nat. 15:1000). 



Literature Cited 



Emory, W. H. 1848. Notes of a military reconnoissance from Fort Leaven- 

 worth, in Missouri to San Diego, in California. 30th Congress, 1st Ses- 

 sion, Senate Document Ex. 7, 416 pp. 



Contains chapters by John Torrey, pp. 135-156, and J. W. Abert, pp. 

 386-405, the few unusual names in which are here indexed. 



Hearne, Samuel. 1911. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's 

 Bay to the Northern Ocean in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772 

 Champlain Society. Toronto, xv+437 pp., illus. 



*A11 of this series have been published in Torreya, No. 1, in Vol. 13: 

 225-236, 1913; No. 2, 16:235-242, 1916; No. 3, 20:17-27, 1920; No. 4, 26:1-10, 

 1926; No. 5, 33:81-86, 1933; No. 6, 37:91-103, 1937; and No. 7, 41:43-55, 

 1941. 



Torreya for November-December (Vol. 42, 153 to 201) was issued April 24, 



1943. 



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