4. 

 Is a plant increasing or decreasing in numbers ? If so, why ? 

 If a plant known to have been growing in previous years has 

 been exterminated, state year of extermination and cause of same. 



How and in what year were adventive or introduced plants brought 

 in ? 



Make note of plants found in unnatural, conditions as to soil or 

 situation with apparent reason for same. 



Do certain plants appear periodically with an interval of more 

 than one year. 



Note abnormal forms of any plants and their constancy. 



Note year and season of any fires, cuttings or clearings in any 

 part of reservations and the dates when any cultivated or pasture 

 lands were abandoned; also when and where home settlements were made 

 and when they were abandoned, etc. etc. 



The value of the proposed flora and fauna of the Metropolitan 

 Park Reservations will be much enhanced if reports, notes and lists 

 pertaining to the various branches are prepared by specialists and 

 if there is at the same time an understanding among the naturalists 

 who assist in the undertaking that specimens and notes pertaining to 

 such special work are to be sent to the individual in charge of it. 



By such an arrangement the work can be better organized for thos 

 assisting will be more likely to concentrate their efforts upon the 

 lines of work they were best prepared to undertake. They can, at 

 the same time, collect an forward specimens and notes pertaining to 

 the work of the specialists which would not otherwise be collected if 

 they could not be thus definately disposed of to advantage. This 



