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Excerpt from Flora of the Blue Hills, Middlesex Fells, Stony Brook and Beaver Brook Reservations: Of the Metropolitan Park Commission, Massachusetts Sir: - In obedience to Orders of the Commission, dated January 26th and June 12th, 1895, and February 28th, March 11th, and May 6th, 1896, we hand you herewith the following preliminary list of the plants of the woodland reservations. This list is the product of volunteer work on the part of many botanists organized for this purpose by Mr. Warren H. Manning, lately a principal assistant in our office. The Commission, the public and the co-operating botanists are especially to be congratulated in that the list has been compiled and edited by Mr. Walter Deane. 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.