Notes on the Flora of Louisiana 



Clair A. Brown 



Louisiana is one of the states in which relatively little sys- 

 tematic botanical work has been done. Some of the more note- 

 worthy articles on the flora of the state have been obscurely 

 published. The citations of some of these publications have 

 often been incorrect. 



R. S. Cocks (6) presented a paper before the Louisiana 

 Society of Naturalists on "A Historical sketch of the Louisiana 

 Botanists," and gave a bibliography of fourteen references. In a 

 later publication Cocks (8) stated that Featherman had prepared 

 a manuscript on the "Flora of Louisiana" which was sent to 

 the Smithsonian Institution but was never published, and that 

 Featherman 's collections were totally destroyed. Between one 

 and two thousand specimens of Featherman's collection form 

 the nucleus of the present herbarium of the Louisiana State Uni- 

 versity. 



E. A. Featherman (2, 3, 4) published a series of three arti- 

 cles which are often cited as in the "Geological Survey of Louisi- 

 ana." They appeared as a part of the "Report of the Board of 

 Supervisors of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning" 1870, 

 and of the Louisiana State University for the years 1871 and 

 1872, which are contained in the "Legislative Documents of 

 Louisiana," along with the reports of the geological survey. A 

 more detailed account of these articles will appear at a later 

 date. 



6. Cocks, C. S. "Proceedings of the Louisiana Society of Naturalists." 

 1900. 



8. Cocks, C. S. "Flora of the Gulf Biological Station." Bull. 7 of the 

 Gulf Biological Station. 



2. Featherman, E. A. "Report on the Botany of Louisiana" Legislative 



Documents of Louisiana pp. 11-122, 1870. 



3. Featherman, E. A. "Report of the Botanical Survey of South and 



Central Louisiana." Legislative Documents of 

 Louisiana pp. 1-132, 1871. 



4. Featherman, E. A. "Third Annual report of the Botanical Survey of 



Southwest and Northwest Louisiana." Legisla- 

 tive Documents of Louisiana pp. 101-161, 1872. 



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