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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 included. 

 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. la. Acad. Sci., Vol. V, 1898. 



Manual of the Flowering Plants of Iowa, 1899. 



The Orchidaceae of Iowa.-Proc. la. Ac-ad Sci., Vol. VII, 1900. 



The Scrophulariaceae of Iowa,— Proc. la. Acad. Sci., Vol. X, 1903. 



*The Flora of the St. Peter Sandstone in Winneshiek County, Iowa, Bull. Lab. Nat. 

 Hist., S. U. I., Vol. V, 1904 



Notes on Some Iowa Plants, -Proc. Dav. Acad Sci., Vol. X, 1904. 



