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Charles C. Parry is best remembered for his field work through- 

 out the west, upon various government and private expeditions. 

 H. N. Bolander and Thomas Bridges were among those who did 

 notable work in the botanical exploration of California. But the 

 prince of American plant collectors of former days was a modest 

 Connecticut Yankee, Charles Wright, who devoted twenty years 

 to work in the southwest, in Mexico, in China, and in Japan, and 

 another ten years to the botanical exploration of Cuba. 



Nor can we omit mention of those who, although busily 

 engaged with other occupations, have found time to do valuable 

 work upon the flora of the regions in which they have made 

 their homes. Such a one, for instance, was Charles C. Frost, the 

 shoemaker of Brattleboro, who had " more friends among the 

 educated people of Europe than in his native village." Another 

 such was John Williamson, of Kentucky, who with his own hands 

 produced those beautiful etchings now so highly prized by Amer- 

 ican fern students. 



The day of usefulness of amateur work in botany, such as 

 that of Frost and of Williamson, has not passed. The limits of 

 our topic forbid the mention of the names of the living, but even 

 now there are farmers, and merchants, and professional men, 

 who by devoting their leisure moments to serious study are 

 notably advancing botanical science. 



LOCAL FLORA NOTES — II 



By Norman Taylor 

 SCHEUCHZERIACEAE 



I. Triglochin pnliistrisY^. There are no specimens of this from 



the area.* North American Flora, the manuals and other general 



works all credit this species with a range that includes at least the 



upper part of our area. Most of the local lists contain no mention 



*The local flora range as prescribed by the Club's preliminary catalog of 1888 is 

 as follows : All the state of Connecticut ; Long Island ; in New York, the counties 

 bordering the Hudson Valley, up to and including Columbia and Greene, also Sulli- 

 van and Delaware counties ; all the state of New Jersey ; and Pike, Wayne, Monroe, 

 Lackawanna, Luzerne, Northampton, Lehigh, Carbon, Bucks, Berks, Schuylkill, 

 Montgomery, Philadelphia, Delaware, and Chester counties in Pennsylvania. 



