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Notes on Some PHANEROCiAMS New or Rare to the State. By W. S. 



Blatchley. 



At the winter meeting of this Academy in 1889, I presented a paper entitled 

 "Some Plants New to the State List," in which seven species were mentioned 

 from Monroe County, and fourteen from Vifro County, as not having been previ- 

 ously recorded in any published list of Indiana plants. The paper was severely 

 criticised at the time by one or two members of the Society, the species being said 

 to be wrongly determined or to have been previously mentioned. My ardor for 

 writing botanical papers was somewhat quenched by this criticism, but time has 

 since proved that all identifications, with but a single exception, were correct, 

 and no previous Indiana record for any one of the remaining twenty species has 

 been or can be pointed out. 



The paper in question was never published, and but four of the plants therein 

 mentioned have been recorded from other portions of the State. This fact, to- 

 gether with the additional one that I have in my note books numerous records of 

 plants taken within the past five years at various localities in the State, which, if 

 published, would greatly extend the known range of such species, has led to the 

 preparation of the present paper. 



In it the stations and habitat of ninety-three species of Indiana plants are re- 

 corded, and brief notes are in many instances given regarding their abundance, 

 variations, etc. Of these, thirty-three species, including thirteen of those men- 

 tioned in my 1889 paper, have not heretofore been recorded in print as 

 occurring in the State; while thirty-seven have been recorded from but one 

 other station in the State, and that in almost every instance distant from the one 

 in which it has been collected by myself. The remaining twenty-three species 

 have not been recorded from more than two stations in the State and they in 

 localities widely different, as " Jefierson and Lake counties," or "Gibson and 

 Noble counties." 



Specimens of all the plants mentioned are in my private herbarium or in that 

 of DePauw University, which, in 1893, came into possession of about 600 species 

 of plants collected by me. Those species represented in the DePauw herbarium 

 are marked with an asterisk in the list which follows. The date given is that 

 upon which the species was collected, or, where collected more than once, the 

 earliest at which it has been noticed in bloom. The nomenclature and arrange- 

 ment are those of the new "Catalogue of the Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta of 

 Northeastern North America," published in 1894 as a memoir of the Torrey 

 Botanical Clul>. Where the name in the catalogue mentioned differs from that 



