FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



Ferns, mosses and lichens, (such mosses, so called, as grow on rocks 

 and rails,) are rare, and ground pines are wanting; fungi are not 

 common, though I have seen specimens of the puff-ball family four 

 or five inches in diameter. 



On the other hand, the Leguminosae, including the pea and 

 clover; the Composite, including asters, golden rods and sunflowers; 

 and the Gramines or grasses are well represented. 



The plants in the following list which I have not seen, I give on 

 the authority of Prof. F. H. Snow, of the Kansas State University, 

 and Prof. E. Hall, of Athens, Illinois, who has made more than one 

 journey through Kansas to observe its botany. And I would espec- 

 ially commend to the notice of those who have not seen it, a paper 

 of his in the Report of the Department of Agriculture for 1870, on 

 the grasses of the region between the Mississippi and the Rocky 

 Mountains. It will interest the farmer as well as the botanist. For 

 the list of ferns I am indebted to Mr. James Wilson, of Leavenworth. 

 A few plants have been sent me by Prof. Mudge.of the Agricultural 

 College. No doubt in the western part of Kansas, differing geo- 

 logically from the eastern, and especially in the salt and gypsum 

 regions, some peculiar plants will be found. 



J. H. CARRUTH. 



Plants not in Wood's Class Book nor Gray's Manual are marked 

 thus, *. Those that are introduced or came themselves are marked 

 thus, t- 



