TORREYA 



Vol. 13 



May, 1913. 



No. 5 



THE VEGETATION OF CONNECTICUT 



I. Phytogeographical Aspects 



By George E. Nichols 



From a taxonomic standpoint the flora of Connecticut is 

 adequately summed up in the several more or less comprehensive 

 bulletins which have been published by the Connecticut Geo- 

 logical and Natural History Survey,^ but except for a few casual 

 references which have appeared incidental to these and other 

 papers no attempt has yet been made to portray the ecolog- 

 ical relations. With the intent of supplying in a measure 

 this deficiency the writer has undertaken a study of the vegeta- 

 tion of the state from an ecological point of view, the results 

 of which are to be presented in this and subsequent papers. 

 Although much of the work has necessarily been in the nature 

 of a reconnaissance, and while many of the observations set 

 forth will already be familiar to some of the readers, it is 

 felt, nevertheless, that some such preliminary survey of the 

 field in question is essential as a basis for future research. In 

 this first paper attention is directed principally to those larger 

 and more general aspects of plant distribution which seem of 

 phytogeographical interest. The discussion of plant societies, 

 successional relations, and other problems of a more distinctly 

 local nature is deferred until later. 



* Evans & Nichols, The bryophytes of Connecticut, Bull, ir, 1908; Graves, 

 Eames, Bissell, Andrews, Harger, & Weatherby, Catalogue of the flowering plants 

 and ferns of Connecticut, Bull. 14, 1910. Bulletins 3, 5, 10, and 15 deal with 

 algae and fungi. 



(No. 4, Vol. 13, of TORREYA, comprising pp, 73-88 was issued 6 April 1913.] 



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