Flora and Fauna 



1882 



Day, David F. The plants of Buffalo and its vicinity — Crypto- 1882 

 gamae. (Bull, of the Buf. Soc. of Nat. Sci. 1882. 4: No. 4. 153- Day 

 290.) 



Crytogamae, pp. 152-250; "Tabular view of the flora of Buffalo 

 and its vicinity," showing names of orders, number of genera, and the 

 number of species and varieties, pp. 253-254; supplementary list of 

 additional phaenogamae, pp. 255—269; index of generic names, of both 

 phaenogamae and cryptogamae, pp. 271-279; general index for both, 

 pp. 281-290. 



Day, David F. The plants of Buffalo and its vicinity — Phaeno- 

 gamae. (Bull, of the Buf. Soc. of Nat. Sci. 1882. 4: No. 3, 65- 



152) 



The introduction is by Day and the map by Pohlman and Chandler. 

 There is a numbered list, giving the locality of rare species. 



It is quite certain that before the establishment of the Buffalo 

 Society of Natural Sciences no one had undertaken to investigate 

 the Flora of Buffalo and determine what plants it comprised. 



It is true that at rare intervals some of the early botanists and 

 collectors had visited our neighborhood. As long ago as 1 749, 

 Kalm, a contemporary and correspondent of Linnaeus, made an 

 excursion to the Falls of Niagara, and, undoubtedly, collected 

 some of the remarkable plants of that locality. In 1 806, Pursh, 

 the author of " Flora Americae Septentrionalis " (as we are 

 informed in his preface) " traversed the extensive and highly 

 interesting country of the Lesser and Great Lakes." In the fol- 

 lowing year, Michaux, the younger, while engaged in a botanical 

 exploration in western New York, traveled from Batavia to 

 Buffalo, recording some interesting observations respecting our 

 primaeval forest; and, some fifteen or twenty years later, Drum- 

 mond and Douglass, distinguished botanical explorers, made col- 

 lections of plants at Niagara. Unfortunately, however, only the 

 scantiest and most unsatisfactory record reaches us of the labors 



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