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Garden 2: 381-407. April, 1902), gives a good account of the 

 dune vegetation around Provincetown, at the tip of the Cape (pp. 

 389-397)- Later in the same year Charles H. Shaw published a 

 successional study of a different type of vegetation at the opposite 

 extremity of the county, vi^ith several illustrations, entitled " The 

 development of vegetation in the morainal depressions of the 

 vicinity of Woods Hole " (Bot. Gaz. 33 : 437-450, figs. 1-6. June, 

 1902). A criticism of this a few years later by H. H. Bartlett 

 (Rhodora 11 : 221-235. 1909) gives some additional details about 

 the bog and marsh vegetation of that neighborhood. 



Of quite different character is a valuable contribution by J. W. 

 Blankinship on " The plant formations of eastern Massachusetts " 

 (Rhodora 5: 124-137. 1903). But in that Cape Cod is only a 

 part of the area treated, and no geographical boundaries are drawn, 

 so that a distant reader has no way of knowing just which of the 

 plants listed grow on the Cape and which do not. 



A well-known government bulletin by J. M. Westgate, "Rec- 

 lamation of Cape Cod sand dunes" (U. S. Bur. Plant Industry 

 Bull. 65, with 38 pages and 6 plates. 1904), contains a brief 

 description of the vegetation around Provincetown, with notes on 

 the changes it has undergone since the country was first settled. 

 The next year appeared a somewhat similar study of a small area 

 on the other side of the Cape, and likewise mentioning only a few 

 species, namely, " Reforestation at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, — 

 A study in succession," by M. A. Chrysler (Rhodora 7: 121-129. 

 pi. 62, 63. 1905). 



The papers on Cape Cod plants in the next ten years were almost 

 wholly floristic. In Rhodora for July, 1909, January, 1910, and 

 February, 191 1, are three interesting articles by F. S. Collins, 

 written in narrative style, and mostly pertaining to the flora of 

 Eastham, on the " lower Cape " (i.e., that part north of the 

 "elbow"). A year after the last one, E. W. Sinnott published a 

 floristic and phytogeographical paper on " The pond flora of Cape 

 Cod" (Rhodora 14: 25-34. Feb., 1912), 



This seems to bring us down to the present time, omitting a few 

 geological and geographical works, papers on algae, descriptions of 



