The Plant Associations of Central Long Island. A Study in Descriptive Plant Sociology

Conard, Henry

This study is an attempt to apply some of the recent methods of Plant Sociology to the description of the vegetation of a circumscribed area. The works of both American and European ecologists have been quoted and compared. Previous studies in this area have been cited and summarized. It is intended to place in the hands of workers at the Long Island Biological Laboratory a record of the present state of our, knowledge of the region from the sociological viewpoint. In spite of its manifest incompleteness, it is hoped that this report may serve a purpose. The lists, tables, and charts are the work of students at the Biological Laboratory from 1927 to 1934 inclusive, supervised and critically checked by the senior author. Naturally the experience and observations of the same author in six weeks work in each of the summers of 1909, 1910, 1911, and 1922 have been drawn upon. Names of plants follow Gray’s Manual so far as given therein. Moss names are taken from Grout, and algae from Hylander’s Algae of Connecticut. Appreciation for facilities afforded, and for aid rendered, is especially due to the Executive Committee and the Director of the Long Island Biological Laboratory, and to my colleagues in the summer school, Dr. F. K. Sparrow, Dr. A. W. Blizzard, Miss Louisa Sargent, Dr. Stanley A. Cain, and Dr. A. J. Grout. Other personal acknowledgments appear in the text.

The Plant Associations of Central Long Island. A Study in Descriptive Plant Sociology

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