APPENDIX. 



LIBRARY 



NEW YORK 



FLORA. OABDHN 



AN ENUMERATION OF INDIGENOUS AND NATURALIZED PLANTS FOUND 

 GROWING IN BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. 



S. MOVER, M. D., QUAKERTOWN, PA. 



Although Bucks county is one of the oldest in the state, the author is not aware 

 that an attempt has ever been made to catalogue her rich Flora. There is little 

 doubt that some of the older botanists have collected within our borders. Bartram, 

 Nuttall, Durand, ]Michaux, Schweinitz, and others, illustrious in botanical annals, 

 have most probably visited portions of our territory, and described new species from 

 typical specimens, first gathered from our soil. As an item of interest in this con- 

 nection, Professor Porter, of Easton, has kindly furnished an extract from a letter 

 of Zaccheus Collins (a distinguished botanist of Philadelphia, and in whose honor 

 Nuttall has named a genus of Figworts (Collinsia) to the eminent botanist Muhlen- 

 berg, dated August 23d, 1813, "I was lately in Bucks county, about five miles 

 north-west of Bristol, a spot very interesting to me botanically and geologically. 

 . Although my opportunity was transient from bad weather, I met with several plants 

 for the first time, such as your Malaxis-ophioglossoides, Woodsia-onschiodes, 

 >. Orchis, perhaps incisa, and here some years back I first recognized Hydropeltis- 



\ V ) purpurea, Crotonopsis-linearis, Michx. and the only Pennsylvania spot known to me 

 - V of Arbutus-uva-ursi. In fine the Magnolias, the glabrous Prinos. Ilex, etc., seemed 



^^ involuntarily to transport me to Jersey." Botanical nomenclature has changed 



»( somewhat in sixty years, but the botanical student will have no difficulty in tracing 

 \_ these plants under their more recent names, in the catalogue. The plants collected 

 .^i by the veteran Collins, so many years ago, are still found in those haunts (save only 



'^ the Bearberry), and they are some of the rarest treasures of our Flora. The diver- 



t »As, sified surface, varying soils, and marked differences in geological formation in dif- 

 r^ ferent portions of the county combine to produce a' rich and varied Flora, which 



4 compares favorably with that of any of the neighboring counties. The following 

 is a brief summary of the more interesting botanical localities of the county. In 

 the upper townships, especially in Milford, Richland, Rockhill, and Springfield, a 



COseries of bogs occur, in which many fine and peculiar plants are found. In Spring- 

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