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Coi.LKc TioNs OF Pi.ANTs Mai»i-: DiKiNc; isiM. lU M. 1'.. Thomas 



It was thought that it mijj^ht ho of soiiu- iutcivst to those workinj^ in various 

 j>arts of tlie State upon thi- Bioloji;ical Survey, to hear rewanlini; the botanical 

 work that has lieen aeconipiislied in and al)ont ('rawfordsville during the past 

 year. In eonneetion with llie regular reijuireil work of the senior year, the stu- 

 dents are expected to devote much of their time, especially during the last term, 

 to the preparation of papers upon some special tojiics. The results of this work 

 last year were presented to the Academy in a short [taper, and it is the j>urj)Ose ot 

 this abstract to add a few notes regarding the additions that have Ijeen made dur- 

 ing the year to the material that will ultimately enable us to obtain a fairly <<>m- 

 prehensive knowledge of the forms of plant life in our region. It must be recog- 

 nized that much of the work, covering as it does a wide range of subjects, can not 

 be pushed with the speed or exhaustiveness that would be desired, but since in all 

 cases material is preserved and stored away with accurate and complete notes, it 

 will in time leave but examination and ultimate determination, an easy task in 

 comparison with the laborious work of systematic collection and preliminary 

 determination. 



One of the subjects upon which faithful and earnest work was done included 

 a study of the trees and shrubs of our Hora. This work was carried on by Mr. L. 

 M. Gentry, and his painstaking efl'orts resulted in quite a large list of the.se plants 

 to our region. His tabulated statements show, collected up to June 20, 116 species 

 and varieties of trees and shrubs, representing twenty-seven orders and sixty -seven 

 genera. This, when conn>ared with the whole number already reported in the 

 state, will be seen to be (juite a goodly representation for so small an area. r>y a 

 careful system <»f taking notes and marking trees, a lecoid is preserved of each 

 locality to assist in further studies. 



The next subject of interest was the work on the mosses of our region, by 

 Messrs. ('. (Jentry and E. W. Olive. Careful collections were made and the 

 material studied very faithfully, but it is expected since the determination of 

 species was done without any great supply of literature and no herbarium for 

 comparison, that some inaccuracies in naming will ap{)ear when the mateiial is 

 submitted for tinal examination. The list, however, shows thirty species, repre- 

 senting nineteen genera. 



The other problem of a systematic character undertaken by the students was 

 carried on bv Mr. Tom Moore, and was a study of the filamentous alga\ ("om- 

 paratively nothing upon this subject has been pul)lished from this state, and the 

 work started by Mr. Moore was almost pioneer in this locality. Notwithstanding 



