THE 



TREES, SHRUBS AND VINES 



OF 



MISSOURI 



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B. F. Bush, Botanist, Independence, Mo. 



The following list of trees, shrubs and vines of Missouri has been 

 prepared at the request of Mr. L. A. Goodman, Secretary of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society of Missouri, for insertion in their 37th annual report. 



The copy has been hastily written for the printer, as the report 

 itself was already in his hands, but it is complete as far as the number 

 of our species is concerned, and no especial effort has been made to 

 learn the complete distribution of each species in the Stale, and the 

 only reason it is now presented is that it may serve to stimulate our 

 farmers and horticulturists to observe and learn more about the woody 

 plants about them. 



As the interest for the study of our plants is awakened in the 

 minds of the people, so in proportion we will know what species we 

 have and their exact distribution throughout the State. 



Stretching so far north and south as our State does, we are not 

 surprised that our ligneous flora is so large and greatly diversified, and 

 it is partly on account of its great diversity of species that nothing 

 more is known of it, but more on account of its great diversity of 

 character, which naturally divides the State into four more or less dis- 

 tinct areas. These are as follows : The ITortheastern, the Northwest- 

 ern, the Southeastern and the Southwestern. Each of these areas 

 has a flora that is peculiar to itself — the plants of which are not found 

 in any of the other areas. In the Northeastern we have Populus 

 tremuloides, Gentiana quinquefolia, Gornus alternifoUa, Anemone patens 



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