Timothy Vansooy, 1

Hen a.! ah Star, I Trustees to provide a place for the receipts for the Stephen Baerr, [ poor. Micajah Fuller, J

Davto Smith, Ebenezer Purdy, Robert Bloomer, Frederick Knox, Thomas Williams, Johh Finch, Abraham Knox,

MlOAJAH FrLLER,

Abraham Vansooi Jonathan Brown,

\ Path Masters.

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77° THE TOWN* OK NORTH SALEM.

Benjamin Close, ") Jacob Wallace, | David Baxter, J. Path Masters. Isaac Keelek, ,' Reuben Zl Ml', I Solomon Close, J

Thomas Baxter, Stephen Bakek,

John Knox ^ Fence Viewers.

Abraham Purdy, | John Quick, Jr., Gilbert Bailey, J

Daniel Delayan, Pounder.

William Rogers, Constable.

Solomon Close, Collector

REPORT

OF THE

Flora of Westchester County.

PREPARED FOR

BOLTON'S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY.

OLIVER R. WILLIS, A. M, PH. D., Author of " CATALOGUS PLANT ANUM in Nova Caesarea Repertaroi.

.INTRODUCTION.

THE following report of the Flora of Westchester Count}' has been prepared at the request of the Rev. Robert Bolton, for publication in the revised edition of his history of the county.

It was with great reluctance that the author undertook the work ; though he has, during the last seventeen years, botanized in the region, and has corresponded with and examined the collections of botanists who have visited parts of the territory not examined by himself ; yet he feels sure that there are plants growing in the limits which have not been noticed by botanists, or, at least, have not been reported.

He set out, however, with the determination not to include any in the list except such as he himself, or some one in whom he had full confidence, had seen growing in the county. As no one has examined