FLORA OF MICHIGAN. 



Scheuchzeria palustris, L. 



Seirpus Clintonii, Gray. Bulrush. Club-Rush. 

 ' ccespitosus, L. Bulrush. 

 Olneyi, Gray. Bulrush. 

 polyphyllus, Vahl. Bulrush. 

 Smithii, Gray. Bulrush. 

 Torreyi, Olney. Bulrush. 

 Scleria triglomerata, Michx. Nut-Rush. 



" verticillata, Muhl. Nut-Rush. 

 Scutellaria parvula, Michx. Skullcap. 



pilosa, Michx. Skullcap. 

 Selaginella spinosa, Beauv. 

 Silphium integrifolium, Michx. 



laciniatum, L. Rosin- weed. Compass-Plant. 

 " perfoliatum, L. Cup-Plant. 

 Solea concolor, Ging. Green Violet. 

 Spircea lobata, Jacq. Queen of the Prairie. 



" tomentosa, L. Hardhack. Steeple-Bush. 

 Spiranthes latifolia, Torr. Ladies' Tresses. 

 Siachys hyssopifolia, Michx. Hedge-Nettle. 

 Stellaria crassifolia, Ehrh. Starwort. Chickweed. 

 Stylophorum diphyllum, Nutt. Celandine Poppy. 

 Synthyris Houghtoniana, Benth. 

 Tiedemannia rigida, C. & R. Cowbane. 

 Tipularia discolor, Nutt. Crane-fly" Orchis. 

 Trillium nivale, Riddell. Dwarf White Trillium. 



" sessile, L. Sessile Wake Robin. 

 Typha angustifolia, L. Narrow-leaved Cat- tail Flag. 

 Utricularia gibba, L. Bladderwort. 



minor, L. Smaller Bladderwort. 

 resupinata, B. D. Greene. 

 Valeriana edulis, Nutt. Valerian. 

 Viburnum prunifolium, L. Black Haw. 

 Viola lanceolata, L. Lance-leaved Violet. 

 Waldsteinia fragarioides, Tratt. Barren Strawberry. 

 Woodwardia angustifolia, Smith. Chain-Fern. 



NATIVE PLANTS FAST DISAPPEARING. 



Many of our fathers and grandfathers spent a considerable portion of 

 their energies in clearing away trees, shrubs, and breaking up the land 

 that they might have fertile fields. The newer portions of our State are 

 still rapidly undergoing this same transition. 



As the country becomes older and more thickly settled almost every- 

 thing seems to conspire against the trees and smaller plants. Proprietors 

 are still making extensions to their clearings. The " tidy " farmer ditches 

 the cat-holes and marshes, clears out the elders and viburnums to make 

 more room for turnips and better grasses. He turns stock into the wood lot 

 and the flowers of spring and summer retreat to the brush-heaps and a few 

 places inaccessible to the cattle. Fire burns out the dried-up swamps. 

 The officers of the railroad see that the strips alongside the track are often 

 mowed. The highways are attacked and the larger vegetation removed. 

 In places, nurserymen or their agents collect large numbers of the choicer 

 wild plants, as prairie roses and lady's slippers. Near high schools and 

 colleges, the student collectors exterminate many choice plants, root and 

 branch. 



Many wild plants vigorously protest against these attempts toward their 

 extermination, and start again and again to recover the lost ground, but 

 with the hand of a thorough farmer against them, sooner or later they 

 succumb, the scattered remnants only surviving in the few remaining 

 swamps, along railroads, on a few ragged hills and out of the way places. 



