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1925] Taylor, — Grier's Notes on the Flora of Long Island 213 



GRIER'S NOTES ON THE FLORA OF LONG ISLAND. 1 

 Norman Taylor. 



Two botanical journals have been carrying for some months 

 a series of papers on the flora of Long Island. The value of these is 

 practically nil and the publication of them should have been declined. 

 The bibliographical footnote discloses not only shortcomings upon 

 the author's part, but an editorial leniency, or carelessness, matched 

 only by the spelling and imperfect bibliography in the main body 

 of the work. More than two score errors of this sort could be enu- 

 merated, were there space or inclination to publish such a list. But 

 the actual statements about the plants of the island challenge atten- 

 tion. 



Under the general heading "The Native Flora of the Vicinity of 

 Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., N. Y. " four things are incorrect: (1) 

 Many of the plants are not native, as particulars below specify; 

 (2) "Flora" is incorrect since scores of garden or specimen plants 

 on private estates are included: (3) by no means all occur, even by 

 stretching one's notion of the "vicinity" of Cold Spring Harbor, 

 anywhere near this locality: (4) in the text (page 24 of the reprint) 

 the author says that besides other sources he has included " all those 

 species apt to be encountered by members of the Laboratory." 

 The italics are mine. To allow such a mixture of ideas to appear 

 under the title "Native Flora" is to put serious students of the flora 

 of the island to the wholly needless burden of checking through 



1 Grier, N. M. Unreported plants from Long Island. I. Pteridophyta and Sper- 

 matophyta. Torreya 24: 71-76. 28 O 1924. [Reprint dated 1994.] 

 Unreported plants from Long Island, N. Y. II. Cryptogams ex- 

 clusive of Pteridophyta. Torreya 25: 5-11. Ja-F 1925. 



Unreported plants from Long Island, N. Y. II. Cryptogams — Part 



2. Torreya 25: 29-35. Mr-Ap 1925. 



The native flora of the vicinity of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. Schi- 



zophyta, Myxomycetes, Dinoflagellatae, Bacillariophyta. Am. Midi. Nat. 9: 

 245-256. S-N 1924. 



The native flora of the vicinity of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. (Con- 



tinued). Am. Midi. Nat. 9: 283-318. Ja 1925. 

 — II. Pteridophyta. (Continued). Am. Midi. Nat. 9: 384-437. 



My 1925. [Presumably part of the series on Cold Spring Harbor, but there is 

 notliing to indicate this in table of contents, or article heading. Includes, beside 

 Pteridophyta, all flowering plants.] 



The fossil flora of the vicinity of Cold Spring Harbor, Am. Midi. 



Nat. 9: 513-527. Jl 1925. [Includes besides fossil species a section on Insect 

 Galls.] 



The geology of Long Island with especial reference to the Cold Spring 



Harbor region and its flora. Am. Midi. Nat. 9: 531-563. S 1925. 

 The papers from the American Midland Naturalist, not in their original order, 

 with new page numbers (1-265, one-half blank) and no date were reprinted as "The 

 Native Flora of the Vicinity of Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., New York. " Contribution 

 no. 8 from the Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 



