The following works are comparatively non-technical and should prove
to be the ones most useful for the lay person interested in becoming acquainted
with the plants of New England to which Thoreau refers:
Angelo, Ray. Concord Area Trees and Shrubs. Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1990.
Brown, Lauren. Grasses: An Identification Guide. Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979.
Cobb, Boughton. A Field Guide to the Ferns. Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963.
Dame, Lorin L., and Brooks, Henry. Handbook of the Trees of New England. New York: Dover Publications, Ind., 1972.
Newcomb, Lawrence. Newcomb's Wildflower Guide. Boston MA: Little, Brown, and Co., 1977.
Peterson, Roger Tory, and McKenny, Margaret. A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-Central North America. Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1968.
Petrides, George A. A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs. 2nd ed. Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1972.
Symonds, George W. D. The Tree Identification Book. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1958.
Symonds, George W. D. The Shrub Identification Book. New York:
William Morrow & Co., 1963.
For those who wish to consult more complete and technical references,
the standard manuals are:
Eaton, Richard Jefferson. A Flora of Concord. Cambridge MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1974.
Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. Gray's Manual of Botany. 8th ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1950.
Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. Flora of North America. Volumes 1- New York: Oxford University Press, 1993-.
Gleason, Henry A. The New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. 3 vols. Hafner Publishing Co., 1952.
Gleason, Henry A., and Cronquist, Arthur. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. 2nd ed. Princeton NJ: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1991.
Seymour, Frank Conkling. The Flora of New England. 2nd
ed. as Phytologia Memoirs V. Plainfield NJ: Harold N. Moldenke &
Alma L. Moldenke, 1982.
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