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and leaving these out of consideration, together with the species of 
Cyperacees and Graminece, for, at the time of my visits, owing to their 
immaturity, few but the most familiar species of these orders were to 
be recognized, we find nearly one-third of the indigenous Flora to be 
different from that of the region with which it is compared. 
Reversing the comparison it appears that of over three hundred 
indigenous Phanerogams which, in the less elevated region, come 
into flower prior to the end of June, nearly two-thirds were not 
found in the Catskills. Not having visited any bodies of water 
in the latter region, restricted aquatic species have not been allowed 
to figure in the enumeration. 
Among the characteristic plants of the Catskills, such northern 
species as most of the following occur, many in abundance : Coptis 
trifolia Salisb., Actcea spicata rubra Michx., Di centra Canadensis 
DeC., Arabis perfoliata Lam , Viola rotundifolia Michx., and V. Cana- 
densis L., Claytonia Caroliniana Michx., Geranium Robertianum L., 
Impatiens pallida Nutt., Oxalis acetosella L., Geum rivale L., Fra- 
gar ia Virginiana Ehrhart, and F. vesca L., Rubies odoratus L., R • 
triflorus Rich., and R. strigosus Michx., Tiarella cordifolia L., Mi- 
tella diphylla L., Circcea alpina L., Epilobium spicatum Lam. (=F. an- 
gustifolium L.), Archangelica atropurpurea Hoffm., — abundant along 
the railroad before entering the mountains; Aralia racemosa L., 
A.hispida Michx, A. nudicaulis L., and A.quinquefolia Gray, Cornus 
Canadensis L., Lonicera ciliata Muhl., Diervilla trifida Moench, Gali- 
um lanceolatum Torn, Aster acuminatus Michx., Solidago thyrsoidea E. 
Meyer, Trientalis Americana Pursh, Veronica Americana Schw., 
and V ojfci iialis L., Polygonum cilinode Michx., Calla palustris L., 
Fdabenaria viridis bracteata Reich., Trillium erythrocarpum Michx., 
T. erectum L., Veratrum viridc Ait., Streptopus amplexifolius DeC., 
and S. roseus Michx., Clinlonia borealis Raf., Smilacena bifolia Ker., 
Luzula parv flora. Desv., Car ex vi tills Fr., C. Dewey ana Schw., C. 
arctata Boot, C. plantaginea Lam. and Carey ana Torn, which are per- 
