Biological Papers. 65 



PROVISIONAL CATALOGUE OF THE FLORA 

 OF KANSAS. 



PART II.-GYMNOSI*ERMS AND MONOCOTYLS. 



By Bernard B. Smyth. Curator of the Kansas Museum of Natural History, assisted by 

 LuMiNA C. Riddle Smyth. Ph. D.. Topeka. 



( Read by title before the Academy at its annual meeting at Pittsburg:. Kan.. December 28. 1911, 

 and agrain read in abstract at the annual meeting at Topeka, December 23, 1912.) 



.INTRODUCTION. 



THE first part of this catalogue, covering the mosses and ferns, 

 was published in volume 24 of these transactions, page 273, 

 issued in October, 1911. The present part (II) includes the gym- 

 nosperms and monocotyls. In order to fill out the classification, 

 some gymnospermous trees and a few important other plants, not 

 native to the state but grown under cultivation, are included. 



Part III of this catalogue is expected to include the Ohoripetalse 

 and part IV the Sympetala?. Part V (final) will embrace the 

 simplest forms, Sub- kingdom I, covering the Protophyta, including 

 bacteria, diatoms, etc., and the Thallophyta, including algae, fungi, 

 and lichens. 



This time it is hoped to include in the catalogue all species of 

 plants growing naturally in the state, small as well as great, to- 

 gether with nearly all of the cultivated trees, grasses and flowers. 

 In order to include the lower orders of plant life, much study for 

 many years has been given the microscopic vegetation of the state, 

 a work which involves no email amount of persistent and well- 

 directed labor. With three or more powerful and well-equipped 

 compound microscopes constantly under our hands and in daily 

 use, and a perfect familiarity with them brought about by years of 

 experience, many when all are added together as students and 

 teachers, it is to be hoped that our labors may produce many use- 

 ful facts, and that our lists when presented will be well worthy of 

 consideration. 



An attempt, reasonably successful, is made in this work to bring 

 botanical classification into harmony with itself and to give the 

 various groups uniform endings to roots indicative of the locus of 

 the term. With that end in view, as far as possible, the great 

 primary divisions (subkingdoms) end in aia as Archegoniata, 

 CarpeLlata: primary subdivisions (phyla) end in phytn, as An- 

 thophyta; and classes as usual end in inecB oTifercB,&B Cycadinem, 



