PREFACE 



phine Smith. The photographs have been furnished 

 by Miss Murray Ledyard, Miss Madeline Smith, and 

 Mr. Augustus Pruyn. 



In almost all cases I have followed the nomencla- 

 ture of Gray's " Manual " as being the one which 

 would be familiar to the majority of my readers, 

 giving in parentheses that used in the " Illustrated 

 Flora" of Messrs. Britton and Brown. 



Frances Theodora Parsons 



Albany, March 6, 1899 



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