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gray.] Botanical Necrology for 1888 . 
U.S.A. Educated at Sauquoit, at Clinton Grammar School, 
Fairfield Academy and Fairfield Medical School. Graduated 
M. D. in 1831. Science teacher in Bartlett’s High School of 
Utica, N.Y., 1831-1835. Assistant to Prof. Torrey, New York 
Medical School, 1833. Curator and Fibrarian Fyceum of 
Natural History, New York, 1835. Professor of Botany State 
University of Michigan, 1838. Fisher Professor of Natural 
History, Harvard College, 1842-1888. Biographical notice by 
Farlow, Proc. Am. Acad. 1888, Dana in Amer. Journ. Sci. 
XXXV (1888), Chronological Fist of Writings by Watson and 
Goodale in Amer. Journ. of Science XXXVI (1888) appendix. 
Published : — 
A Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, from New Eng- 
land to Wisconsin, and South to Ohio and Pennsylvania, inclusive 
(the Mosses and Liverworts by Wm. S. Sullivant) arranged accord- 
ing to the Natural System. Boston and Cambridge (1848) ; 2nd edition 
including Virginia, Kentucky, and all East of the Mississippi (1856); 3rd 
edition revised (1859) ; 4th edition revised, to which is added Garden Botany, 
an introduction to a knowledge of the common cultivated Plants, with twenty- 
two plates, illustrating the Grasses, Ferns, Mosses, etc. New York, 1863 ; 
5th edition, including the District east of the Mississippi and north of North 
Carolina and Tennessee. New York. (1867.) A second issue in 1868 has 
four pages of addenda. 
Genera Florae Americae Boreali-Orientalis Illustrata. The Genera of the 
Plants of the United States illustrated by figures and analyses from nature, by 
Isaac Sprague. Vols. I; II (1848, 1849). 
Statistics of the Flora of the Northern United States. Am. J. Sci. II, 
XXII, and XXIII (1856). 
Synoptical Flora of North America. Vol. I., Part II. Caprifoliaceae, Corn- 
positae. New York, July 1884. Second edition [with supplement, etc., in 
connection with Vol. II, Part I]. New York. January 1886. Vol. II, Part I. 
Gamopetalae after Compositae. New York, 1878. Second edition [with sup- 
plement, etc., in connection with Vol. I, Part II]. New York, 1886. Re- 
issued with corrections, April 1888, as Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 
Bemarks concerning the Flora of N orth America. Am. J. Sci. Ill, XXIV. 
[Reprinted in part in Bot. Gaz. VII], 1882. 
Characteristics of the North American Flora : An address to the botanists 
of the Brit. Assoc, for the Adv. Sc. at Montreal. Am. J. Sci. Ill, XXVIII ; 
Rep. Brit. Assc. 1885. 
Chloris Boreali- Americana. Illustrations of new, rare, or otherwise interest- 
ing North American Plants, selected chiefly from those recently brought into 
cultivation at the Botanic Garden of Harvard University. Decade I, Mem. 
Am. Acad. Ill (1846). 
A notice of some new, rare, and otherwise interesting plants from the 
N orthern and Western portions of the State of New York. Ann. 
N. Y. Lyc. Ill (1835). 
Notes of a Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina, 
etc., with some remarks on the botany of the highest Alleghany 
Mountains. Am. J. Sci. XLII. [Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. I, II, III] 
(1842). 
