MICHIGAN FLORA. 



PREPARED FOR THE MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY BY CHARLES F. 

 WHEELER AND ERWIN F. SMITH, HUBBARDSTON, MICHIGAN. 



PREFACE. 



This list of Michigan plants was made at the suggestion of the State Horti- 

 cultural Society for publication in their tenth annual report. As a foundation, 

 the authors have collected over 1,100 species of flowering plants and ferns in 

 various parts of the State during the past fourteen years. 



They have also made use of the following earlier catalogues of Michigan 

 plants, and tender their acknowledgments accordingly: To the First (?) Cata- 

 logue of Michigan Plants, by Dr. Jno. Wright, embracing 850 species, which 

 appeared in Dr. D. Houghton's Second Annual Report in the year 1839, published 

 in " Senate Documents." This was a simple list of the plants collected during 

 one season between Detroit river and Lake Michigan, in the first and second 

 tiers of counties, alphabetically arranged and without notes. To W. A. Burt's 

 Manuscript List of 185 species, from the central part of the Upper Peninsula, 

 collected while running township lines in 1844, and identified by Dr. D. Cooley. 

 To W. D. Whitney's "List of Plants of the Upper Peninsula," with notes, pub- 

 lished in the second volume of Foster & Whitney's Report, in the year 1851, 

 and comprising 417 species of plants, cullected chiefly along the shore of the 

 Great Lakes. To a ''Manuscript List of the Plants Growing Spontaneously 

 within Ten Miles of Cooley's Corners, Washington, Macomb County," which 

 embraces 900 species of flowering plants and ferns, and was prepared for the 

 Smithsonian Institute by Dr. D. Cooley in 1853. To N. H. Winchell's "Cata- 

 logue of Phaenogamous and Acrogenous Plants found Growing Wild in the 

 Lower Peninsula of Michigan and the Islands at the Head of Lake Huron," 

 published in Prof. A. Winchell's "Geological Report" for 1860, and contain- 

 ing notes on distribution, frequency, etc. Cooley's plants form part of the 

 Herbarium of the State Agricultural College. Wright's and Winchell's plants 

 are in the State University Herbarium. 



We also owe acknowledgments to the compilers of the following more recent 

 Catalogues of Michigan Plants : To N. Coleman's List, published in 1874, by 

 the Kent Scientific Institute, at Grand Rapids. To Miss E. C. Allmendinger's 

 List of Ann Arbor Plants, which appeared in 1876. To Dr. A. B. Lyons' 

 "Medicinal Plants Indigenous in Michigan," — a paper read before the Detroit 

 Academy of Medicine, Nov. 27, 1877. To a "List of Native Medicinal Plants 

 of Michigan," prepared by Prof. Volney M. Spalding, of the University of 



