Introduction. 



This catalogue has been published as a guide to the students of 

 •Botany in Licking County. If it tends to stimulate a further interest 

 in our local flora it will have served its purpose. Much is given 

 which is of little interest to any one outside of the county, but it was 

 thought best to igather together the scattered notes on the distribution, 

 times of flowering, relative abundance, etc. It is hoped that some 

 one in the future may complete the work begun by publishing a com 

 plete flora of the county. Of necessity such a list as the following 

 does not contain all of the species even in a limited district. Many 

 of the townships have not even been visited, while an equal number 

 have been only partially- explored. Granville, St. Albans, and New- 

 ark townships have been the most thoroughly explored. The Licking 

 River and Licking Reservoir have been visited frequently, but mostly 

 during the months of July and August. Every effort has been taken 

 to make the list of species as authentic as ppssible. All doubtful 

 forms have been compared with the specimens in the Harvard Htr- 

 barium. The willows were identified by M. S. Bebb, Esq. and the 

 sedges by Prof. W. C. Werner. 



The author wishes to tharjk all of those who have contributed in 

 any way to this catalogue. 



