To W. B. de las Casas, Esq., 



Chairman Metropolitan Park Commission. 



Sir: — In obedience to Orders of the Commission, 

 dated January 26th and June 12th, 1895, and February 

 28th, March 11th, and May 6th, 1896, we hand you 

 herewith the following preliminary list of the plants of 

 the woodland reservations. This list is the product of 

 volunteer work on the part of many botanists organized 

 for this purpose by Mr. Warren H. Manning, lately a 

 principal assistant in our office. The Commission, the 

 public and the co-operating botanists are especially to be 

 congratulated in that the list has been compiled and 

 edited by Mr. Walter Deane. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot. 



Brookline, Mass., 

 May 15, 1896. 



