NOTES ON A LIST OF PLANTS COLLECTED IN SOUTHEASTERN 



MISSOURI IN 1893. 



BY B. F, BUSH. 



Being desirous of exploring the St. Francois River Valley 

 and the country contiguous to it, I was led by Dr. Trelease 

 to make a trip to Southeastern Missouri early in May, 

 1892, and the results were so gratifying that other visits 

 were planned. But being engaged by the World's Fair 

 Commission of Missouri to work up the smaller ligneous 

 flora of the State, and also collect such arborescent species 

 as their collector had failed to secure earlier in the season, 

 I was for a time unable to make any investigations of the 

 flora of this region. However, in the course of my work 

 I was sent to Southeastern Missouri in October, and again 

 in November, 1892, but without being able to make any 

 collection to speak of. Early in April, 1893, I was again 

 sent to this part of the State, and although I had only a 

 part of one day, I collected my press full of plants ; and 

 later on in the same month, I was sent once more to this 



time 



more 



My duties on the World's Fair work kept me from visit- 

 ing this region again until after July of last year, and I did 

 not make another trip until about the middle of September. 



I began examining the flora in St. Francois County, 

 between Bismarck and Loughborough along the St. Fran- 

 cois river, and spent one day at that place. Nine days in 

 all were spent examining the St. Francois River Valley and 

 the country adjacent to it, and the appended list repre- 

 sents the duplicate material collected on this trip, and 

 also a few things collected in April, the numbers used 

 being those under which the specimens were distributed. 

 As I was working for the interest of the Misso 



