LIST OF PLANTS COLLECTED AND 

 OBSERVED 



COMPILED BY 



FORREST SHKEVE 



The preparation of a Flora of Maryland, or even the publication 

 of a List of Plants Collected, was not part of the original plan of the 

 work the results of which are embodied in the foregoing pages. How- 

 ever, the collections and observations of the writer, together with 

 those of other members of the staff who collaborated in the field 

 work, have resulted in the formation of a card list of the flora which, 

 incomplete as it is, is sufficiently full to be worth publishing. This 

 is particularly true in view of the fact that there has never been pub- 

 lished a List covering the entire State. It might have been easily 

 possible to increase the number of species listed by searching for 

 Maryland plants in various collections, particularly those at the 

 Maryland Agricultural College and the National Herbarium and 

 the collection of William Canby, now at the New York College of 

 Pharmacy. This has scarcely been deemed worth the labor it would 

 involve, as those collections will always be quite as accessible as 

 now, so the List as it stands embraces, with few exceptions, an en- 

 tirely fresh set of observations. It is the opinion of the writer that 

 it is more desirable at this time to increase knowledge as to the dis- 

 tribution, limits of range and habitat of the commoner plants of the 

 native flora than it is to prepare complete lists of the flora elaborated 

 by the most refined methods of present-day taxonomy. 



The species embraced in this List are such as have been observed 

 or collected by the writer either before or after the projecting of this 

 volume, those collected by Dr. M. A. Chrysler in the Western Shore 

 District of the Coastal Zone, and by Frederick H. Blodgett in the 

 Upper Midland District. Additional occurrences are based on ma- 

 terial in the collections of Eobert K. Miller of Baltimore and How- 

 ard Shriver and George M. Perdew of Cumberland. A small num- 



