Floristie work. — New England. g 
LESQUEREUX issued in 1884 a Manual of the Mosses of North America, which 
has never been replaced by a later work. DANIEL CADY EATON was graduated 
from Yale in 1857 and spent his life there as professor of botany. He elab- 
orated the pages on the ferns in the several editions of GRAY’s Manual and 
published in addition, Ferns of the Mexican Boundary in Mexican Boundary 
Survey (1857); Ferns of North‘ America illustrated with colored plates by 
J. H. EMERTON and C. E. FAxoN. CHARLES J. SPRAGUE (1856—58) published 
several papers on New England mycology. ALEX. F. KEMP studied the sea- 
weeds, and his paper entitled on the Shore Zones and Limits of Marine Algae 
on the N. E. Coast of the United States was printed in the Canadian Naturalist 
and Geologist in 1862. WILLIAM G. FARLOW, pursuing the same line of re- 
search, published two papers on seaweeds under the auspices of the United 
States Fish Commission. The last one, still in use, entitled Marine Algae of 
the New England and Adjacent Coast, appeared in 1879. FREDERICK L. SARGENT 
printed in 1886 a Guide to the Principal Orders of Cryptogams and the Com- 
moner and more easily distinguished New England Genera. 
Passing by the long list of local floras, lists and notices of plants which 
have appeared on the New England flora, mention should be made of the 
Flora of Essex County, Massachusetts 1880 by JOHN ROBINSON; a Catalogue 
of Plants growing without cultivation in the County of Nantucket, Mass. 1888 
by MARIA L. OwEn; Catalogue of all Phaenogamous Plants at present known 
to grow without Cultivation in the State of Connecticut (1851) by JAMES 
N. BısHoP; The Portland Catalogue of Maine Plants (first edition 1868; 
second edition 1892); a Preliminary Catalogue of the Plants growing on Mount 
Desert and the Adjacent Islands by EDwARD L. Ran and JOHN H. RED- 
FIELD 1894. 
Flora of Vermont. A List of the Fern and Seed Plants growing without 
Cultivation in Vermont prepared by EZRA BRAINERD, L. R. Jones and W. W. 
EGGLESTON, committee for the Vermont Botanical Club 1900; Flora of the 
Town of Southington, Conn. and its Vicinity by CHARLES H. BISSELL and 
LUMAN ANDREWS 1902; Catalogue of the Plants of New Hampshire by 
Wım. F. FLint 1874. Plants of Rhode Island being an Enumeration of Plants 
growing without Cultivation in the State of Rhode Island by JAMES I BENNETT 
appeared in 1888, as a publication of the Providence-Franklin-Society; List of 
Marine Algae collected near Eastport; Me. by D. C. EATON (New Haven 1873); 
Desmids of Maine by WıLLıam WEST ı888 and Fresh Water Algae of Maine 
by F.L. HARVEY in 1889. 
The Silva of North America, a Description of the Trees which grow 
naturally in North America, by CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT, Director of the 
Arnold Arboretum near Boston, Mass. is a monumental work on American 
botany issued in twelve sumptuous volumes between 1891 and 1898. The 
beautiful drawings reproduced in the work are by C. E. FAXON. Prof. SARGENT 
is also editor of the Scientific Papers of Asa Gray in two volumes, published 
in 1889; author of The Woods of the United States with an Account of their 
