6 Kentucky Agricultural Experiment station. 



Members of the old Geological Survey Staff, who published ob- 

 servations on Kentucky woody plants in the reports of 1880-1884. 

 are, Professor A. R. Crandall, and Messrs. John Hussey, Lafayette 

 DeFriese and W. M. Linney. Professor Crandall examined th* 

 forest trees of Carter, Boyd and Lawrence counties; Hussey, those 

 of Barren and Edmonson counties. DeFriese seems to have traveled 

 from the vicinity of Columbus on the west to Pound Gap near our 

 east boundary ; while Linney gives a good account of the trees and 

 shrubs of Boyle and Mercer counties. 



It is a pleasure to bear witness in this relation to the devo- 

 tion to the study of our native plants by a Kentucky woman also, 

 the late Miss Sadie F. Price, of Bowling Green. Her death from 

 tvphoid fever was, I suppose, a result of enthusiasm for botany, be- 

 ing probably contracted on some one of her collecting trips in the 

 region about Bowling Green. Her work was but just begun when 

 the end came. 



The immediate incentive to the publication of the present list 

 comes from the project recently set on foot by Attorney General 

 (iarnett, of establishing a planting on the Capitol Grounds at 

 Frankfort, to which each county shall contribute a tree of its own 

 selection. It was proposed in the Fayette Committee, consisting of 

 II . P. Hillenmeyer, J. W. Porter and the author of this list, that if 

 agreed to by the Governor and Judge Garnett the plan be extended 

 to provide for a complete representation of the woody plants of 

 Kentucky, thus constituting an arboretum covering some of tht 

 ground of the one Rafinesque planned years ago when connected 

 with Transylvania University. The interest in the matter shown 

 by Governor Jtmet B. McCreary and the members of his official 

 family promised to make the enterprise a success this time, and 

 a preliminary list of our commoner trees and - -ubmitted 



by me in which characteristic species were assigned to each county 

 in the State. 



The list he r e presented completes this list, tho it has been in 

 my hands practkally as now printed for more than ten years. The 

 arrangement followed is that of dray's Manual, Seventh Edition. 

 A question mark precedes the names of species as to whose occurrence 

 in Kentucky T have some douht. Introduced trees are not included. 



