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from both of these pre-eminent authorities, and has used the names 

 applied by other botanists. 



The fact is entitled to notice that now, probably for the first 

 time in America, a local catalogue is published in which the plants 

 of all the classes in the vegetable kingdom are included. Usually, 

 heretofore, such catalogues have not extended beyond the Vascular 

 Crytogams: — very rarely, indeed, have they comprehended the Musci 

 and Hepaticae. 



No one more than the writer can regret that any reason should 

 have compelled Judge Clinton to decline the task of preparing this 

 Catalogue for publication: — no one can better appreciate how much 

 has been lost because that labor has devolved upon another. In 

 this city, where that devoted naturalist and accomplished scholar 

 passed so many years of his useful and honorable life, nothing needs 

 to be said, to any one, of his peculiar fitness for such a duty. The 

 clearness, learning and rare felicity of style, with which he was ac- 

 customed to illumine and adorn his favorite theme, will here be 

 long remembered. 



Buffalo, March ist, 1882. 



