A FEW WORDS CONCERNING THE NEW MICHIGAN FLORA. 91 



in all five. It makes it interesting for those who want to use all these 

 works, doesn't it?" 



After all that has been said and done, the study of the flora of the 

 State, at best, can only be considered as fairly begun. By far the greater 

 areas have not yet been seen by any systematic botanist and very few 

 regions have been visited by one who is an expert in some one or more 

 difficult families. 



What species flourished in large areas will never be fully known, since 

 man has cut off, burned over and plowed under tens of thousands of 

 acres of the virgin wilderness I Swamps, marshes and lakes have been 

 drained and the land occupied by farm crops. Chiefly through the 

 agency of man, great numbers of weeds and other plants have been 

 introduced from other states and from foreign countries and each has 

 begun a vigorous warfare for all the room it can get. 



Whoever prepares the next edition of the Michigan Flora will find 

 a large number of acquisitions. Some new species, or supposed new 

 species, will be described,, foreign acquisitions may be expected from 

 all directions. 

 W. J. Beal, Ph. D., Professor of Botanv, 



Botanical Laboratory, Agricultural College. 



