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FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS 



TOUCHING THE FLORA OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. 

 BY ONE OF THE REGENTS. 



The Regents, relying upon the sympathy and assistance of the 

 botanists of the State, have commenced putting the State Herba- 

 rium in order, and propose to augment and perfect it, and to col- 

 lect full and accurate materials for a new and complete catalogue 

 of the plants of the State. 



The contents of this paper will, it is hoped, sufficiently indicate 

 the nature of the information which the Regents wish to acquire 

 as materials for the proposed catalogue. Any addition to, or cor- 

 rection of, any one of the original lists contained in this paper, 

 will be thankfully received. All plants intended for the herbarium, 

 and all communications, should be addressed, as heretofore, to 

 " S. B. T\ t oolwoeth, LL.D., Secretary of the Regents, Albany." 

 "Where a plant not indicated in Torrey's Catalogue nor in the 

 additional list herein given, or a new station of a rare plant, is 

 discovered, the fact should be communicated, and the most perfect 

 and best prepared specimens of the plant should be sent with the 

 communication. 



In 1853, the State published "A Catalogue of the Cabinet of 

 Natural History of the State of New-l^ork," &c. To this Dr. Torrey 

 contributed Lists of the Plants described in the State Flora, and 

 also a List of " Plants discovered and collected since the publica- 

 tion of the Flora." These lists compose what is herein meant by 

 Torrey's Catalogue, or the Catalogue of 1853, and includes 1537 

 species. 



The last mentioned list — the list of plants discovered since the 

 publication of the Flora, is not now easily accessible, and, there- 

 fore, is republished here. 



