Excerpt from Catalogue of the Flora of "Oak Island, " Revere, Massachusetts: With NotesThe soil is a vegetable humus on sand and gravel, up on which the plants thrive in moist seasons with great luxuriance.The island is also a favorable locality for the collection of land snails and has been well known to botanists and conchologists for many years.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fin...
Excerpt from Catalogue of the Flora of "Oak Island, " Revere, Massachusetts: With NotesOak island, or Chelsea Beach Island, as it was called before North Chelsea was rechristened Revere, is a Slight elevation of land, covered with trees, hardly reaching more than three or four feet above the surround in'g saltmarsh, within the limits of the town of Revere, Massachusetts, and just a few rods beyond the inlet which separates that town from the t...
