A 
SYNOPSIS 
OF THE 
FLORA OF THE WESTERN STATES. 

PREFATORY REMARKS. 
The region to which this synopsis or catalogue is intended 
to apply; extends from the Alleghany mountains in West Vir- 
ginia, to the Platte river in Missouri Territory; and from the 
southern boundary line of Tennesse, to the latitude of De- 
troit. It embraces Ohio, Indiana, Llinois, Kentucky, West 
Tennessee and Missouri; asmall part of Virginia and Penn- 
sylvania, and of the Michigan, North West, and Missouri 
territories. There are large tracts of country within these 
limits whose vegetable productions have not yet been exam- 
ined by botanists;—even in the immediate neighborhood of 
populous towns and cities much remains to be done. Judg- 
ing from available information, it would seem that the bota- . 
ny of Ohio and Kentucky has been most satisfactorily deter- 
-mined. The Kentucky plants are given almost exclusively 
in the authority of Dr. Short; those of Ohio unless otherwisé 
accredited, have been personally observed and collected by 
the writer. The regions about St. Louis, on either side of the 
Mississippi, have been very successfully explored by Dr. L. 
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