MONTANA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE SCIENCE STUDIES. 



Vol. i. No. i. November i, 1904. 



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A CENTURY OF BOTANICAL EXPLORATION 



IN MONTANA. 



Collectors, Herbaria and Bibliography. 

 BY J. W. BLANKINSHIP. 



PREFACE. 



In the study of the flora of a region it is very desirable, and indeed 

 necessary for scientific accuracy, to know what collections have been 

 previously made in that region, where these are deposited and what 

 publications based upon them have been issued, so as to determine 

 range of species, consult types and avoid unnecessary duplication, 

 while having at hand the conclusions of previous botanists in the 

 case of the many doubtful forms found in a flora relatively new and 

 unworked. The present paper is an attempted summation of the 

 first century of botanical effort in Montana and, while the lists 

 published can hardly claim to be complete and errors of reference 

 perhaps unavoidable at a point remote from the larger botanical 

 "libraries, it is hoped that the data here assembled may prove 

 of value to others concerned with the botany of this region and 

 encourage the study of one of the most interesting and unique floras 

 in the United States 



It appears that four out of the ten collections made previous to 

 1862 went to Europe along with the publication of the species 

 contained and that all the others, for the first three quarters of the 

 century, remained in the Eastern United States, but, since 1880, a 

 large part of the collections made have remained, in duplicate at 

 least, in this state, principally at the Agricultural College, Bozeman. 

 These latter now include the private herbaria of R. S. Williams, 

 AY. T. Shaw, Mrs. E. W. Scheuber, Peter Koch, Mrs. I. M. Kennedy. 

 J. W. Blankinship, F. A. Spragg, Mrs. J. E. Light and the World's 

 Fair Collection of 1893, and duplicates of the collections made by F. 

 ]). Kelsey, E. N. Brandegee, Mrs. G. R. Finlay, Mrs. H. F. Henshall. 

 Rydberg & Bessey, L. M. Umbach, M. J. Elrod, W. W. Jones 



