THE PLANTS OF WINNESHIEK COUNTY. 149 
Aside from the resident students of botany the most extensive 
collectors have been the following: 
Mr. T. J. Fitzpatrick, who made a trip down the Upper Iowa 
in company with Dr. Paul Bartsch in the summer of 1895. He 
has published, in part jointly with Mrs. Fitzpatrick, a number 
of reports on the plants collected,* including, however, a large 
number of plants obtained from other collectors. 
Prof. Thos. E. Savage, who visited the county in the spring 
of 1899. A small part of his collection was noted in some of the 
references cited, but the greater part is here reported for the 
first time. 
The present writer, who made a number of trips to the county 
in 1902 and 1903. His collections and those of Prof. Savage are 
now in the Herbarium of the State University. They include 
a large number of lower cryptogams, especially fungi, lichens 
and mosses, a report upon which cannot be here ineluded. 
Two short reports treating of the plants of the county have been 
published by the writer,* and in the present paper it is purposed 
to report upon all the plants obtained in the field, and also to 
include such as have been definitely reported from the county by 
others. 
All the papers treating of Winneshiek county plants which 
have been heretofore published, have been little more than mere 
annotated lists. Very little attention has been paid to the eco- 
nomic value of the native plants, though this is often note- 
worthy, and the public has treated them rather as an undesirable 
encumbrance which must be removed as soon as possible to make 
way for the plants of the field and pasture. Aside from the use 
which we may make of individual plants or their products, the 
native flora has a vastly more important function whose influ- 
ence extends far beyond the limits of any particular tract of 
land upon which it is developed, especially in a territory with a 
much broken surface such as is found in this county. It develops 
a better soil, conserves moisture, and prevents erosion and the 
*Notes on the Flora of Northeastern Iowa,—Proc. Ia. Acad. Sci. «» Vol. V, 1898. 
Manual of the Flowering Plants of Iowa, 1899. : 
The Orchidaceze of lowa,—Proc. Ia. Acad Sci., Vol. VII, 1900. 
The Scrophulariacez of Ilowa,—Proc. Ia Acad. Sci., Vol. X, 1903. 
Hi ae Ploragh of the St. eter Sandstone in Winneshiek County, Iowa, Bull. Lab. Nat. 
is ¥ 
. Notes on Some: Towa Plants, —Proc. Dav. Acad Sci., Vol. X, 1904. 
