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F. 5. EARLE to the fungi, N. L. BRITTON to the flowering plants of the 
northern states, West Indies, JOHN K. SMALL to the flowering plants of the 
southern states. PER AXEL RYDBERG has devoted himself to the Rocky Mountain 
flora, LuciEN M. UNDERWOOD to the ferns, while FrAncıs E. LLoyD, DANIEL 
T. MACDoUGAL, CARLETON C. CURTIS devote themselves to the morpho-physio- 
logy of plants. The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club first issued in 1870, 
has appeared regularly ever since; it was long under the editorship of W. H. 
LEGGETT, later of W. R. GERARD, afterward of-Dr. and Mrs. BRITTON, LUCIEN 
M. UNDERWOOD and now in charge of JOHN H. BARNHART. Its influence has 
been felt in Europe and all parts of the American continents. The work of 
these botanists and others will appear in North American Flora, Descriptions 
of the wild plants of North America, including Greenland, the West Indies and 
Central America (now in course of publication). : 
The flora of New Jersey has received attention from both the botanists 
of New York City and of Philadelphia. ARTHUR HOLLIcK, L. H. LIGHTHIPE, 
N. L. BRITTON of the New York Club have investigated it, while JoHn M. 
MAISCH, I. C. MARTINDALE, JOHN H. REDFIELD, IsAAC BURK, J. BERNARD 
BRINTON, JOSEPH CRAWFORD, STEWARDSON BROWN, BENJAMIN HERITAGE, 
USELMA C. SMITH, are Philadelphians that have made collections in New Jersey. 
P. D. KNIESKERN published in 1857 a Catalogue of Plants growing without 
Cultivation in the Counties of Monmouth and Ocean in the State of New Jer- 
sey and SAMUEL ASHMEAD in 1857, a List of Plants and a Catalogue of Marine 
Algae collected on the Coast of Egg Harbor. Isaac C. MARTINDALE contri- 
buted to the memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club a monograph on the marine 
algae of the New Jersey coast and adjacent waters of Siaten Island, 1889. 
MARY TREAT of Vineland has studied the flora from the standpoint of a 
nature lover and has contributed observations of value to botanic science. 
J- W. HARSHBERGER has written on the Strand Flora of New Jersey in two 
Papers ı900 and 1902. A Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of New Jersey, 
issued by the Geological Survey, was printed at New Brunswick in 1881 and 
in the final report of the State Geologist, volume II (1889), appears the Cata- 
logue of Plants found in New Jersey by N. L. BRITTON (pages 27—642). Both 
of these publications were preceded by Catalogue of Plants growing without 
Cultivation in the State of New Jersey by O. R. WırLis 1874 with a revised 
edition in 1878. ä 
The history of botany in Pennsylvania may be said to commence with 
the establishment in 1694 of a garden at the Hermitage on the lower Wis- 
sahickon Creek by the German Pietists, presided over by KELPIUS, where 
medicinal plants were raised for use and study. In 1739 was published at 
Leyden in Holland an essay entitled Experimenta et Meletemata Plantarum 
generatione by the Governor of Pennsylvania JAMES LOGAN. This may be 
said to be the first work issued by a Philadelphia botanist. In the year 1748, 
PETER KALM, a pupil of Linnakus, visited Pennsylvania and spent three years 
in exploring America, and in 1753—61 published En Resa til Norra America 
