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List of Plants found in the Neighhorliood of Philadelphia, February to October, 

 and List of Ferns. By Dr. Darracli. 1860. 



Tjist of the Rarer Plants found near Easton. By L. de Schweinitz. 1824. 



Catalogue of Botanical Specimens collected by J. Wolle and A. Tj. Huebener, during 

 the Year 1837, in the Vicinity of Bethlehem and Other Parts of North- 

 ampton County. 1839. 



CONNECTICUT. 



Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptogams growing without 



Cultivation within Thirty Miles of Yale College. 1878. 

 Tjist of Plants growing spontaneously in Litchfield and its Vicinity. By John P. 



Brace. 1822. 

 Catalogue of the Phoenogamous Plants and the Ferns growing without Cultivation 



within Five Miles of Yale College. By William Tully, M.D. 1831. 

 Catalogue of the Phmnogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants found growing 



in Meriden, Conn. (Incomplete.) By Emily J. Leonard. 1885. 

 Additional Plants found growing in Meriden, Conn. , since Issue of Catalogue in 



1885. By Mrs. E. B. Kendrick. 1886. 



Several private herbaria and a considerable number of manuscript reports 

 have also been carefully examined. 



The work which has specially served as the basis of the present list is the 

 Catalogue of Plants found within Thirty Miles of New York City, compiled by 

 Mr. Wm. H. Leggett and published by him in the Bulletin (vols, i-v, 1870- 

 1876), but reaching only the Gramineae. 



The preliminary labor of bringing these various reports into avail- 

 able form was entirely accomplished by the Chairman of the Committee, and 

 the other members take this opportunity of recording the fact that but for his 

 efforts this Catalogue would not have been prepared. 



In the names and arrangement of orders and genera Bentham and Hooker 

 have been closely followed, except that a few genera not accepted by them have 

 been maintained, and the Gymnospermge have been placed immediately before 

 the Pteridophyta. Their convenient plan of citing Linnaeus as author of the 

 earlier generic names accepted by him has also been adopted, though reluct- 

 antly, as it is the firm conviction of the Committee that the just and proper 

 rule would be to give full credit in all such cases to the original authors. As 

 to specific names some important innovations have been made, as fully stated 

 in the report of the subcommittee on nomenclature, who, alone, are respon- 

 sible for all changes. 



As the district includes two important seaports. New York and Philadel- 

 phia, the number of ballast plants reported is very large. These are given 

 separately at the end, none being admitted into the Catalogue proper unless 

 positively reported from some station other than a ballast ground. 



With regard to future Catalogues the present Committee would strongly 

 recommend that they should be descriptive and illustrated, the descriptions 

 to be drawn from specimens collected within the district, thus making a real 

 local Flora, of which much need is constantly felt. It would further urge that 

 special attention be paid to the collection of the lower forms of plant life. 

 Beyond the published lists of C. F. Austin and A. Halsey, very little informa- 

 tion regarding the Bryophyta or Lichens is available ; except a few notes by 



