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Excerpt from A Preliminary Catalogue of the Plants Growing on Mount Desert: And the Adjacent Islands
Specimens of every plant in this list, with very few exceptions, will be found preserved in the Mount Desert Herbarium, at present kept in Cambridge, Mass. These exceptions, most of which are either Algae or Lichens, are denoted by an asterisk prefixed to the name of the species. For specimens of plants thus marked, as well as for other plants from collectors now unrepresented, we shall be most grateful.1 The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, furthermore, has an almost complete duplicate set of the Phanerogams and Pteridophyta; and Dr. Carl Warnstorf of Neuruppin, Germany, has a dupli cate set of the Sphagna. Duplicates from the Herbarium have also been distributed among various public and pri vate herbaria of the country.
Much care has been taken to make the Catalogue reli able. Very few plants have been admitted to the list except on the authority of an undoubted specimen, and in every case of exception only on a positive affirmation by a specialist or other botanist of high repute as to the authenticity and identity of the lost specimen. More over, we have had the kind assistance of many of the leading botanists of the country in the determination of Specimens in difficult families and genera, and in cases of doubtful determination, as well as in the criticism and correction of our manuscript. Prof. L. H. Bailey has given his help in Carex and Rubus; Mr. M. S. Bebb, in Salix; Prof. William Trelease, in Rumex and Epilobium; Dr. Thomas C. Porter, in Solidago, Aster, and Mentha.
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