PREFACE. Vii. 
herbarium, have been of especial value in regard to the 
habitat and distribution of the plants, particularly of the 
Fells. Judge J. R. Churchill, Dr. G. G. Kennedy, 
Messrs. C. E. Faxon, E. Faxon, L. L. Dame, F. S. Col- 
lins, E. F. Williams, H. A. Purdie, Dr. J. R. Webster, 
and Mrs. P. D. Richards have aided by their notes on the 
flora of the various reservations. To all the above and to 
those who have assisted by collecting in the reservations, 
contributing to the herbarium, or in any other way, my 
hearty thanks are extended. 
Owing to the fact that this list is in reality a record of 
the plants growing in four separate reservations, a plan 
embracing. clearness and brevity had to be considered. 
The list rests upon the authority of the Reservations 
Herbarium, various private herbaria, notably those of 
Messrs. C. E. and E. Faxon, W. P. Rich, F. 8. Collins, 
EK. F. Williams, Dr. G. G. Kennedy, Judge J. R. 
Churchill, the Gray Herbarium and my own, and lastly 
the reports of a few botanists, already mentioned, who 
have spent much time in studying the distribution of. the 
plants of the reservations. I have also used my own 
field notes made during the past few years. 
The names of plants indigenous to the reservations are 
printed in heavy full-faced type, while the names of plants 
introduced either into North America, or into the reserva- 
tions from this country, or cultivated in old gardens, by 
roadsides and the like, are printed in small capitals. 
Synonyms are printed in italics. 
After each species and its common name, if it has any, 
follows a statement of the general habitat of the plant as 
it occurs in New England. This ends with tke period, 
separate observations being divided by semicolons. Then 
follow observations on each reservation. The following 

