METROPOLITAN RESERVATIONS FLORA. 



Dec. 15th, 1394. 



Will you please complete yoiir metropolitan Plara notes 

 at an early date on one of the set3 of cards, if you havs gne, 

 and forward to me. Those who have not yet been supplied with cards 

 will receive them as soon as sets are turned in. 



If there are notes of localities that you would prefer not 

 to have generally known, please place a red i&k cross i» the right 

 hand tipper corner of the card or note and I will see that they are 

 not distributed. 



If it is easier for you to turn in your notes in manuscript 

 please do so and they will be transferred to eards here. 



It is proposed to compile a preliminary manuscript list to 

 be issued before the collecting season opens. As this involves con- 

 siderable labor it is very desirable that the notes be all turned 

 in at an early date in ©ne form or another.. 



A mooting will be called in January to discuss the nature 

 of this preliminary list and to talk over the coming reasons work 

 during which we must make our notes as complete as practicable 

 so that the results may be published in the Metropolitan Park 

 Commissioners Report a year from this time* 



H summary of the suggestions contained in the letter of 

 May 25th, 1894 is added: 



Flora to include all plants now growing, or known te have 

 been growing in each reservation including adventi vos . 



Maps sent out are marked with 500fcet squares, reference 

 letters and numbers to locate position of the, area occupied by a 

 plant approximately if it cannot be indicated briefly by reference 

 to the topographical features. 



^W^/If a plant growing in previous years is exterminated with 

 year of extermination and cause of same. 



Kow and when were advent ive or introduced plants brought in? 



Hots plants found in unnatural conditions as to soil or 

 situation with apparent reason.. 



Note if any plants appear periodically with intervals of 

 more than one year. 



Note abnormal forms and their canstancy . jl£^-,J^E^- 

 Abbreviations recommended for use-- 

 c« common; f. frequent; o. occassional; r> rare; 

 E. East; ¥. West; -M« North; S. South; 



B. Blue Hills; B. B. Beaver Brook; U* Middlesex Fells; S. Stony 

 Brook; 

 fl. flower; fr. fruit; If. leaf; rt« root > 



Yours truly, 



Warren H* Manning, 



by K. A* Horv on» 



