KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



CATALOGUE OF PLANTS SEEN IN KANSAS. 



BY I. H. CARRUTH. 



With additiojis by Prof. F. H. Siunv and Prof. E. Hall. 



It is with great reluctance that 1 present this catalogue of the 

 plants of Kansas, because it is so incomplete, even for Douglas 

 county. I hope, if spared, to add more names to it. 



Kansas is out of the field of both Wood and Gray, and I find 

 plants that are not in either of their books. I have then to resort 

 to Eaton of forty years ago, or to send plants to some one .who can 

 enlighten me. I have several such cases now on hand. I find plants 

 corresponding partially, but not entirely, to descriptions in the 

 book, and then I am in doubt whether they are varieties, or distinct 

 species not in the book. 



Botanists seem not to have finished arranging species into their 

 appropriate genera ; consequently the same plant has different 

 names in different books. I shall use the names in Wood's Botanist 

 and Florist, presuming that they are according to the most recent 

 decisions. 



Botanists are not agreed, or, if they are, it is but recently, as to 

 whether plants with certain marks are species or only varieties. In 

 such cases, I shall give the name, and, perhaps, my opinion. 



The botany of Kansas differs considerably from that of New 

 England and New York. Having no peat bogs, we lack the side- 

 saddle flower, and all plants peculiar to such places. Having but 

 little sandy land, we have few plants peculiar to that kind of soil. 

 So far as I know, the whole large order Ericacese, including the 

 huckleberry, cranberry, checkerberry, spoon-wood, pinxter and 

 rosebay, is entirely wanting. 



The- Coniferge, including the pines, spruces and cedars have but 

 one representative, the Red Cedar, and that is rare. 



The Betulaceas, including the birch and alder are wanting. 

 In the order Cupuliferje, which includes the oak, the beech and 

 the chestnut are wanting. 



The splendid magnolia and tulip tree, common farther east and 

 south, are not found here. 



The large orders Malvaceae, including the hollyhock; Cruciferre, 

 including cabbage and mustard ; Orchidaceje, including the wild 

 Lady's Slipper ; and Cyperace^e, including sedges and other grass- 

 like plants with triangular stems, ha\e but few representatives. 



