21 



that verification of doubtful plants will be impossible until additional 

 material is collected. 



Probably the greatest impetus to the study of Botany in Indiana was 

 given by the founding of the Botanical Bulletin in November 1875, soon 

 changed to the Botanical Gazette. Its original form was quite unlike its 

 present magnitude — a four page sheet without cover in place of its present 

 40 page issue. Its contents also were as unlike the present as can be well 

 imagined and the file of this journal may well be taken to represent the 

 splendid progress made in the science of Botany in America during the past 

 two decades. The first numbers were largely filled with local notes and the 

 entire journal during the first few years of its existence shows its strictly 

 provincial character. In ISS] this journal published a catalogue of the 

 state flora including nearly 1 ,500 plants stopping with the ferns. In the pre- 

 paration of this flora, much assistance was received from Rev. E. J. Hill 

 regarding the flora of the northern counties of the state and he has since 

 contributed many notes regarding the rarer plants of that region. This 

 portion of the state has further received some attention from INIessrs. 

 Higley and Raddin in their flora of Chicago and vicinity. 



The story of the study of the cryptogamic flora of the state is soon told. 

 Uromyos lespedezu- seems to have been the first of the lower cryptogams 

 to be reported in 1S76 by John M. Coulter. fSixty-nine species of mosses 

 were reported from South em Indiana by A. H. Young in 1876. and a num- 

 ber of Mosses and Lichens were reported from Wayne county by ]\Irs. 

 Haines. Both these collections are in existence but they are not accessi- 

 ble for reference at the present time. H. L. Bolley and Dr. .1. C. Arthur 

 have collected some material from the vicinity of Lafayette ; among that 

 collected by ^Nlr. Bolley were several interesting Uredinere on Carex and 

 other Cyperads. Those collected by Dr. Arthur were mostly species of 

 economic interest. In ISltO E. M. Fisher, under appointment of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture at Washington, collected a considerable number 

 of parasitic fungi mostly in Montgomery and Johnson counties. J. N. 

 Rose and M. A. Brannon have each had a brief struggle with the powdery 

 mildews and W. H. Evans at one time made some collection of the lich- 

 ens, but the material does not seem to be in existence at present. Dr. 

 Julius Roll made extensive collections of mosses in America and a con- 

 siderable number of species from Hobart, Indiana are included in his list. 

 This sums up in brief, the history of botanical collection and local workers 

 in Botany to the time of the organization of the Biological Survey. 



