A CENTURY OF BOTANICAL EXPLORATION IN MONTANA. 13 



Mrs. G. R. Finlay of Bozeman has done more or less botanical 

 work in that vicinity (1893-1903) and donated many specimens to 

 the Montana Agricultural College. 



Mrs. Laura A. Fitch made collections about Sheridan and Virginia 

 City (1892?) some of which are at the Mont. Agr. Coll., but her pri- 

 vate herbarium is at the Univ. of Mont., Missoula. 



J. H. Sandberg, assisted by D. T. MacDougal and A. A. Heller, 



made a small collection of plants at Thompson Falls, Bonner and 

 Glendive in 1892 (Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 204-287. Washington, 

 1895)- for the National Herbarium and Dr. MacDougal collected 

 about Flathead Lake, the Mission Mountains and McDonald Lake 

 in the summer of 1901, the specimens going to the N. Y. Bot. Card. 



Mrs. J. E. Light sent a collection of nearly 100 specimens collec- 

 ted in 1892 in Custer county to the World's Fair collection of 1903. 

 These are at the Montana Agricultural College. The Montana Ladies' 

 World's Fair Collection of 1893 was made up by the ladies all over 

 the state, for besides Mrs. Scheuber (Miss Emma Ware), Mrs. 

 Alderson, Mrs. Finlay, Mrs. Fitch, Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Light, 

 already mentioned, there were also Mrs. Jennie Moore of Butte, 

 Mrs. Ida Christie of Silver Bow Co., Mrs. McNulty of Madison 

 Co., Mrs. E. Muth of Lewis and Clark Co., Mrs. Hodgeman and 

 others who took part in the work. This collection is now a part of 

 the herbarium of the Montana Agricultural College. 



P. A. Rydberg, now Curator of the herbarium of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, was here with C. L. Shear in 1895 in the employ 

 of the Division of Agrostology at Washington, collecting mainly for- 

 age plants. Their route was from Dillon, to Deer Lodge, Helena, 

 Bozeman and return. Their plants are in the Div. of Agrost. at 

 Washington and the N. Y. Bot. Garden. Dr. Rydberg returned un- 

 der the same auspices in 1896 accompanied by J. H. Flodman of 

 Wahoo, Neb. and collected from Bozeman, the Spanish Peaks and 

 Bridger Range, to Monarch and the Judith Basin, returning along 

 the Crazy Mountains to Livingston. Their collections were dis- 

 tributed as before. The next summer Dr. Rydberg returned in the 

 interest of the New York Botanical Garden and had as his assis- 

 tant this time E. A. Bessey of the University of Nebraska. Their 

 route extended from Bozeman via the Spanish Peaks, and the Mad- 

 ison Valley to the Park and return by way of the Yellowstone. The 



