PART II. FLORA OF MONTAUK. 



It should be said at once that there has been no serious attempt to make 

 collections of all the species that grow at Montauk, nor are introduced 

 plants included here, unless they have entered into some of the vegetation 

 types treated in Part I. But during many visits there, and in the course 

 of a good deal of walking over the area, herbarium specimens were collected 

 as they were necessary for the identification of species in certain associations 

 of plants, or as their collection did not interfere with the study of the 

 vegetation. It is from the accumulation of these notes and specimens that 

 the following list has been made. While there can be no pretense that it is 

 complete, it does at least show what species make up the great bulk of the 

 flora of Montauk. 



It is a pleasure to make acknowledgments to Mr. Kenneth K. Macken- 

 zie for identification of the sedges; to Professor A. S. Hitchcock and Mrs. 

 Agnes Chase for the grasses; to Dr. R. C. Benedict for the ferns and their 

 allies; to Mr. W. W. Eggleston for Crataegus; to Mr. Paul C. Standley for 

 Vaccinium; to Prof. E. S. Burgess for Aster; and to Dr. F. W. Pennell for 

 certain Scrophulariaceae and for Kneifia. 



The names and specific identities, with a few trifling exceptions, are 

 those in the writer's "Flora of the Vicinity of New York," which, in es- 

 sentials, was based upon the "Illustrated Flora" of Dr. N. L. Britton and 

 the late Addison Brown. 



Practically all, except the records of the very commonest species, are 

 supported by specimens. These are mostly in the herbarium of the Brook- 

 lyn Botanic Garden, while a few are in the collections at the New York 

 Botanical Garden. Several score are based on specimens collected by Mr. 

 William C. Ferguson of Hempstead, most of which he has presented to 

 our collections. All other records are based upon field observations of the 

 writer, or upon those of Mr. Ferguson. It is a genuine pleasure to ac- 

 knowledge this assistance from Mr. Ferguson, who has also made many 

 notes on the rarity or commoness of certain grasses, sedges, and some 

 other plants, which have been used in tabulations of the Raunkiaer 

 " Growth-Forms," as these have been developed under the highly specialized 

 conditions at Montauk.* 



* The specimens collected at Montauk as well as many others from difFerent parts of 

 Long Island are all being studied with a view of getting out a "Flora of Long Island." 

 The local Long Island collections of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden now number twenty 



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