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made at Marietta. The first list of great importance 

 was contained in Riddell's Synoptical Flora of the 

 Western States, followed the next year (1836) by a 

 Supplementary Catalogue of Ohio Plants. 



The first State Catalogue was published by J. S. 

 Newberry in 1859; the second by H. C. Beardslee in 

 1874; and the third by Kellerman and Werner in 1893. 

 Many important local and county lists have appeared 

 from time to time. 



The earliest specimens (collected by Menassah 

 Cutler at Marietta ) were accidently destroyed by fire. 

 None of Riddell's specimens are known to be in exist- 

 ence except a small lot of about one hundred samples 

 now in the library of Marietta College, and some in the 

 New Orleans Academy of Science; the latter said to be 

 in a poor state of preservation. 



Newberry left no specimens to verify his list; in fact 

 we are warranted in believing that his catalogue was 

 largely a compilation and to some extent based on un- 

 reliable information. Dr. Beardslee made extensive col- 

 lections and received material from many correspond- 

 ents ; a part at least of this material was subsequently 

 placed in one of the Colleges of Northern Ohio, though 

 no report has appeared concerning the same. The MS. 

 from which his catalogue was published was his mere 

 tentative list, his later and carefully prepared MS., 

 having been lost in transmission to, or by, the parties 

 who should have published it in Vol. IV of the Ohio 

 Geological Survey. 



The catalogue of Kellerman and Werner gave on 

 the authorit}' of the authors only those species that 

 were authenticated by specimens ; but it also listed all 

 species reported, in each case citing the published 

 authority. It is thus a record of all that had been 

 published previous to that date. Now with perfected 

 nomenclature and sequence of groups that accords with 

 the present status of botanical knowledge-^the anti- 



