Excerpt from Flora of Middlesex County, Massachusetts This catalogue has been a natural outgrowth of the incorporation of the Middlesex Institute in 1881. The results of numerous excursions in the vicinity of Malden encouraged wider research, leading to the exploration of the entire county, with publication in view. Works known to contain lists of county plants have been carefully examined, among which are Bigelow's "Florula Bostoniensis;" Hitchcock's "Report on the Geology, etc., of Mass.;" Emerson's "Trees and Shrubs of Mass.;" a "List of Plants in Malden and Medford;" the "Catalogue of the Davenport Herbarium;" "A partial list of the native flora of Waltham;" a "List of introduced plants found in the vicinity of a wool-scouring establishment" in North Chelmsford, by Rev. W. P. Alcott; and miscellaneous papers in the "Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History," Hovey's Magazine, and other publications. The verification of these lists has been no light task. Where 110 specimen exists, where it has been impossible to find the original authority upon which a plant outside its recognized limits has been reported, or where there is a strong probability of wrong determination, the authors have excluded such names from the catalogue, thinking it better to lose several species which may be in the county than admit one which would be justly open to criticism. Various public and private collections have been examined for rare species; while holidays and vacations have been for six years largely devoted to botanical expeditions which have embraced within their scope, though very imperfectly, every section of Middlesex. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.