THE WOODY PLANTS OF KENTUCKY. 



By H. GARMAN, 

 Entomologist and Botanist of the Station. 



The following list is to be regarded as preliminary to a more 

 complete account of the woody plants of Kentucky. The material 

 for it has been accumulated during a good many years of collect- 

 ing and observation, both as State Inspector of Nurseries and as 

 Entomologist and Botanist of the Kentucky Experiment Station, 

 tho most of the time spent on native shrubs and trees has been in- 

 cidental to the other work. It is believed that the list is nearly com- 

 plete, notwithstanding, but some species are included more to get 

 further information about them as Kentucky plants than because of 

 a belief that they occur here. An example is the long-leaved or 

 Georgia pine, said by Lafayette DeFriese to have been observed by 

 him near Pound Gap. This pine is the common species in the 

 sandy regions of the South Atlantic coast, and it seems very un- 

 likely that it ever extended northward to our limits. But De- 

 Friese wrote many years ago, at a time when our forests were much 

 more extensive than now, and may be supposed to have had an op- 

 portunity to observe species here that have since been exterminated 

 by farming and lumbering operations. 



Several earlier lists of Kentucky plants have been prepared at 

 different times. One of the earliest, perhaps the first, was written 

 by ''Henrico M'Murtrie, M. D.." under the title "Florula Louis- 

 villensis" and was published in Louisville in 1819, coming from 

 the press of "S. Penn, Jun. Main Street." It was printed with 

 other observations made by the author, the whole being described 

 by him as, 



"Sketches of Louisville and its Environs, including, 

 among a great variety of miscellaneous matter, a Florula 

 Louisvillensis ; or, a catalogue of nearly 400 Genera and 600 

 Species of Plants that grow in the Vicinity of the Town, Ex- 

 hibiting their Generic. Specific and Vulgar English Xames." 



