INTRODUCTION. 5 



belong to the valley of the Minnesota. Since no bibliography- 

 has yet been published of the district in question or of the state 

 in general — except the preliminary one compiled with much 

 care by Mr. Warren Upham (4) — it seems advisable to introduce 

 at this point such a list as shall cover at least the more promi- 

 nent papers, memoirs and volumes known to the writer. 



Bibliographical List of Pablications RelariQg to tlie Plants of Minnesota. 



In this preliminary and partial list the * is prefixed to such titles as 

 convey information concerning the valley of the Minnesota. 



Jesuit Eelations (1626-1679). 



Occasional references to food or fuel plants. 



La Salle: Margry's Decouv. et Etabl. de France, Am. Sept. (1683). 

 !>€ Slier: Pennecaut's Narr. (1705). 

 Carver: Trav. N. Amer. (1779). 



Observations of Sugar-maple, Vines, Oaks, Pirus, Prunus, Angelica, 

 Apios or Astragalus, Humulus and a number of otbers, not all of 

 wbicb. perhaps, are to be credited to Minnesota. 



*Pike: Exp. Miss, and La. during 1805-6 and-7 (1810). 



Observations of Pinus strobus, P. resinosa, Tilia, Ulmus, Fraxinus, 

 Quercus, Acer, Populus, Abies, Larix, Zizania. Thuja and a few 

 others. 



Torrey: List of PI. coll. by Capt. D. B. Douglas at the sources of the 

 Mississippi. Sill. Journ., ser. I, vol. IV, pp. 56-69 (1822). 

 *Nutt<ill and Schiveinitz: Say's PI. from Long's Exp., Appx. in Keat- 

 ing Narr., vol. 11(1825). 



124 species of ferns and spermaphyta, 30definitely attributed to Minu. 



*Beltratni: Decouv. Sourc. Miss, et Sanglante (1824). 



Observations of Maples and Oaks. 



* Schoolcraft: Narr. Exp. Itasca, pp. 160-165, plants coll. by Dougl. 



Houghton (1834). 



247 sp.. 115 attributed to Minn. 



*Torrey: Geyer's coll., Nicollet Rep. (1843). 



Catalogue of 440 sp., 60-65 from Minn., mostof the others from Dakota. 



Eaton and Wright: Man. Bot. N. Amer., ed. VIII (1841). 



Some vague references to Minnesota localities. 

 Gray: Man, Bot. N. U, S., ed. I (1848) and succeeding editions. 



In the first edition vague references to Minnesota localities. 



* Feather stonehanyh : Canoe- Voy. Minnay Sotar (1847). 



A few notes of common trees, shrubs and herbs. 



*Pope: Rep. Pemb. Exp., ex. Doc. 42, 31st Cong., Sess. I. (1851). 



Notes of common trees and slirubs. 



* Parry: Syst. Cat. PI. Minn, and Wise, Owen's Rep., pp. 606-622 



■ (1852). 

 *€lark: Hanchett and Clark, Rep. Geol. Surv. (1864). 



Enumeration of 65-70 native plants aud 30 cultivated varieties. 



(4). ¥pham: Cat. Ft. Minn. XI. Rep. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn., (18S3). 



