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constantly sought and freely given, yet seldom has been religiously 

 followed. Nevertheless, his counsel has necessarily been of great 

 service. 



In the following pages herbaria in which specimens of the plants 

 of the state are contained are indicated by initials as far as known. 

 (A) represents the herbarium of the State Agricultural College, 

 which is very full as to representatives of the Kansas flora, as pre- 

 pared by Doctor Kellerman, now deceased, and Prof. A. S. Hitch- 

 cock; (S) is the State herbarium, in charge of the principal author; 

 also stands for the private herbaria of the authors as well as the 

 herbarium of Professor Schaffner, which is richly supplied with 

 Kansas plants and is a part of the foundation of this catalogue; 

 (U) is the herbarium of the Kansas State University, of which the 

 authors have a list. 



A few names are included on the authority of Mr. Coville or 

 some of the botanists of the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 ington. It is not the aim to include any plants not known to 

 exist in the state. 



That there should be errors in the present catalogue is unavoid- 

 able and rather to be expected. All such discovered in season will 

 be eliminated in the permanent flora, publication of which will 

 necessarily be some years off yet. Correspondents will be thanked 

 for calling attention to any veiled errors; obvious ones are evident 

 enough and will need no pointing out. 



Until some student of mosses comes into the state and works up 

 the material available, the public must be content with the desul- 

 tory work of various students, who have always done the best they 

 knew in making determinations, such as have been published in 

 the various numbers of the Bulletin of the Washburn Laboratory 

 of Natural History by Prof. F. W. Cragin; Smyth's "Check-list of 

 the Plants of Kansas"; the papers of MM. Kenauld and Cardot in 

 Botmiicai Gazette, almost entirely from material collected in Sa- 

 line county by Dr. Joseph Henry; and the collections of Miss 

 Minnie Reed in Wyandotte, Pottawatomie, Riley and other coun- 

 ties, and published in vol. XIV of the Transactions of the Kansas 

 Academy of Science. Since then almost the only work done in 

 the state in collection and determination of mosses has been by 

 Miss Grace Meeker, of Ottawa, which of itself has not been small. 

 It is hoped now that some students will wake up to the importance 

 of studying the mosses of the state. 



All persons interested in the flora of Kansas are invited to cor- 

 respond with the authors. Let us know what you have learned of 



