TORREYA 
March, 1912 
Vol. 12 No. 3 
PRIZE ESSAY ON THE LOCAL FLORA 
A series of prizes is to be offered by a member of the Torrey 
Club for the best popular article on some feature of the vegeta- 
tion of our local flora range.* 
The prizes will be as follows: 
I. А first prize of $25.00. 
2. A second prize of $15.00. 
3. For the five next best articles, a year's subscription to 
ToRREYA. (Offered by the Club.) 
The donor has delegated to the editorial board of the Club 
the arrangement and judging of the competition. "With his 
consent they announce the following rules: 
I. The competition is open to all amateurs, school teachers 
and others not on the staff of a botanic garden, college, or univer- 
sity. 
2. Mere taxonomic revisions of genera or families will be 
excluded, but the essay may take any other feature of the local 
flora as its subject. 
3. Articles should not be more than 4,000 nor less than 2,000 
words long, and may or may not be accompanied by photographs, 
the expenses being of publication being borne by the Club. 
4. The essays awarded first and second prizes will be printed 
in TORREYA. No manuscripts will be returned and the editors 
reserve the right to use any competing manuscript, as they see fit. 
In submitting essays it should be borne in mind that the 
* The local flora range as prescribed by the Club's Preliminary e. of 
1888 is as follows: All of the state of Connecticut; Long Island; in New Yor 
ae — He Hudson River up to and including Columbia and E 
ties; all of New Jersey; and Pike, Wayne, Monroe, 
Lackawanna, Luz e, Чоро а, Lehigh, Carbon, MESES Berks, Schuylkill, 
Montgomery, ыл. Delaware and Chester counties ennsylvania. 
[No. 2, Vol. 12, of TORREYA, comprising pp. 25-44, was es I5 F 1912.] 
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