this volume, of these Proceedings. The importance of such 

 Catalogues of our native productions will be seen, if we con- 

 sider that exact localities are found to afford particular spe- 

 cies for many, indeed for indefinite, series of years. The 

 Chair instanced the value of similar records in reference to 

 plants noticed by the early botanists of Salem, and which he 

 found growing on spots indicated l\y them. To the future 

 antiquary it may afford satisfaction to know what was the 

 most obvious flora of the present day ; and when the pro- 

 gress of cultivation shall have extirpated these wild flowers, 

 their memory at least will survive. 



To Rey. John Lewis Russell, Vice President op the 

 Essex Institute. — Agreeable to your request, I have made 

 the annexed list of plants, found in Salem, and within seven 

 or eight miles of Salem ; (all, with two or three exceptions 

 native, or growing wild) — the present year, either by myself 

 or other members of the Institute — to which I have added 

 eighty-one plants reported by Miss Ann L. Page, a member 

 of a class engaged in the study of Botany in North Dan vers, 

 which I had not previously seen, or had reported by mem- 

 bers of the Institute. 



I have prefixed a * to those furnished by Miss Page and a 

 t to those reported by members. 



The list is not so full as it would have been if other du- 

 ties had not required my time at the proper season for pro- 

 curing them. 



To Miss A. L. Page and her associates I feel much 

 indebted for their contributions. 



S. B. BUTTRICK. 



Salem, 6th Nov. 1857. 



January, — Alnus serrulata — common alder aments If inch, 

 Salix eriocephala — Swamp Willow aments 5-8 in. 



March 27 — Hepatica triloba acuta — Liverwort. 

 Ictodes fcetidus — Skunk Cabbage. 



April 4th — Sanguinaria Canadensis — Blood Root. 



Populus tremuloides — Aspen. 



TT + • 1 ) Fairy flax, Innocence. 



Houstonia coerulea | ^^^^^ ^^^^^^, ^^.^^ 



Equisetum arvense, (barren) — Horse Tail. 



ESSEX INST, proceed. VOL. ii. 30. 



