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and Cunila origanoides have covered the whole area but not beyond it 

 except on a small knob in Jefferson County, one in Spencer County, and 

 one in Warrick County. Gaultheria procumbens and Tsuga canadensis 

 are evidently relicts on this old rock area. There also remains Carex picta 

 which offers a problem in disjunct distribution. This Carex is frequent 

 in Brown County in certain places near the glacial boundary and is found 

 sparingly in Monroe, Jackson, Lawrence, Morgan, and Owen Counties. 

 I have watched carefully for this species elsewhere in Indiana but have 

 failed to discover it. It is known only in the area mentioned in Indiana, 

 in Tennessee, Alabama, and in one place in Louisiana. Another in- 

 teresting relict of this area is Betula lutea which has a few specimens 

 struggling for existence on the walls of the gorges about a mile south- 

 east of Taswell, Crawford County. It is associated here with Tsuga 

 canadensis. 



State Flower 



The Indiana flora is rich in the number of native species that are attrac- 

 tive and beautiful. Out of our abundance of native flowers we should 

 be able to select one for our state flower. I take this opportunity which 

 may be my last to voice my protest against designating as a state flower 

 one that is not a well known native of the state nor even a native of the 

 United States. Our first state flower was the carnation of Europe. I 

 assisted in having this changed in 1923 to the flower of the tulip tree 

 which is found in every county of Indiana except in the prairies. It is 

 recognized as one of the most stately trees of the United States. In 1931 

 the legislature named the blatant zinnia the state flower, Zinnia elegans 

 (a native of Mexico). Why advertise some foreign country and our 

 ignorance of our native plants ? I appeal to readers to take a pride in our 

 state and in our native plants. I hope that our next legislature will not 

 consider the state flower only as a buttonhole bouquet and will name one 

 of our many native flowers to represent us and cease paying homage to 

 any other country. 



Acknowledgments 



I have received help and suggestions from many persons to whom I 

 wish to make grateful acknowledgment. First to the persons previously 

 mentioned who have examined my specimens in difficult genera, I tender 

 my sincere thanks. 



I wish especially to thank those who have contributed difficult parts of 

 the text: Frederick J. Hermann of the University of Michigan for the 

 text of Carex, J uncus, and Luzula; Theodor Just of the University of 

 Notre Dame for the text of Chenopodiaceae ; and Ernest J. Palmer of the 

 Arnold Arboretum for the text of Crataegus. These authors have with 

 few exceptions followed the phraseology of the flora. 



I owe much to Stanley Coulter, until recently Dean of the School of 

 Science, Purdue University, who encouraged me to write a flora of Indiana 

 and who enlisted the aid of the Department of Conservation. He has also 

 read most of the manuscript and has been helpful in many ways. 



