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NOTE 



The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences was organized on the 5th day of 

 December, 1861. Dr. 0. C. F. Gay was elected Curator of Botany, and that 

 gentleman, with David F. Day, Esq., and myself, have, ever since, composed 

 the Botanical Committee. The following list is intended to comprise the results 

 of our two seasons' explorations, and is, necessarily imperfect ; but we confidently 

 hope to be able to add to and perfect it, and make a catalogue worthy of the 

 Society. In the meantime, I offer this humble attempt to the Society, and our 

 correspondents. 



Thanks are due to several correspondents for the aid which they have given in 

 determining our plants, and particularly to Professor Asa Gray, to that eminent 

 caricographer, the Rev. Chester Dewey, and to Dr. George Thurber. 



We have not been able to determine all our collected species, and I thought it 

 better to omit those w T hich were undetermined. Much remains to be done, 

 especially in the genera Potamogeton, Quercus, Salix and Carex. 



I include in " the vicinity" of Buffalo, Chautauqua County, Erie County, 

 Niagara County, and the adjacent Canadian coast. Where a plant is found 

 within this district, but not in the immediate vicinity of Buffalo, the locality is 

 mentioned. A few plants out of the district are inserted in the list, and their 

 stations given, for the information of our correspondents. 



The arrangement of the list corresponds with Gray's Manual. The list is not 

 intended to impart information as to the origin of the plants ; but, in a few in- 

 stances, mat. (naturalized) is used, and, generally, as an expression of my opinion 

 that the plant is naturalized where the books are silent or leave the matter doubt- 

 ful; / w. and c. s. mean field weed and culture scape; g. w. and g. s. garden 

 weed and garden scape ; ace. is a contraction for accidental, and is used where a 

 seed or a few seeds, brought by a vessel or railroad, or cattle train, have produced 

 the plant, but it is doubtful whether the plant can continue itself here, — so 

 it is used in the case of Potentilla palustris, which was brought here, growing 

 and in full bloom, upon an ancient raft, probably from Chippewa Creek. 



Buffalo, March 7, 1864. G. W. CLINTON. 



