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barium. Quite a large part of the state was covered dur- 

 ing this trip, extending from Laramie, on the south, to 

 Lander and the Wind River Mountains on the north-west, 

 to Sheridan and the Big Horn Mountains on the north, 

 and Sundance, Fort Laramie, and Wheatland on the east. 

 How many numbers were collected, I am unable to state, 

 as no field or collection numbers were made use of, but in 

 the succeeding catalogue of plants those species where no 

 collection number is noted, are generally to be credited to 

 this expedition. In the Graminese and Cyperaceae much 

 the larger number of species are the result of this earlier 

 expedition in which these groups received such thorough- 

 going attention that in the later collecting trips it seemed 

 advisable to concentrate attention upon the other Phaner- 

 ogams. 



It may be of interest to give briefly the history of 

 the field work that furnished the material upon which this 

 report rests. 



1894. 



During the continuance of the spring term of school, 

 operations had to be confined to Laramie and adjacent 

 territory. Mornings and evenings, holidays and Satur- 

 days were used with all diligence. The most distant 

 point reached was Table Mountain, about twenty miles to 

 the east, and on the west the Laramie River served a.s 

 boundary line. Limited as was the area covered and late 

 as seasons are at this altitude, June 30 saw 300 numbers 

 collected and stored in duplicate. 



At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees at 

 the close of the school year, provision was made for an 

 expedition to go into the field during the summer vaca- 

 tion, in the interest of the departments of geology and 



