CATALOGUE 



OF THI 



FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS OF OHIO. 



The following catalogue was prepared at the request of the Ohio State Medical 

 Society, and was presented and ordered to be published at the meeting in Cincin- 

 nati, 1854, but by a miscarriage in the mail was not included in the proceedings 

 of that meeting. Though presenting but an imperfect view of the vegetation of 

 Ohio, as the first effort toward the formation of a complete flora of the State, it 

 will perhaps not be thought by botanists to be entirely without value or interest. 

 It includes many facts not yet in possession of the public, and such as perhaps 

 would never be put on record in any other form. When submitted to the Medical 

 Society this list of species formed but a portion of a report on the botany of the 

 Siate, more particularly in its relations to medicine. That report embraced a 

 brief exposition of the generalities of the geographical botany of Ohio, with an 

 attempt to deduce from the facts then in my possession some of the influences 

 which have controlled the distribution of plants within our boundary lines ; also, 

 from a point of view more strictly medical, a notice of some of the remedial agents 

 included in our flora. The circumstances under which this catalogue is now pub- 

 lished forbid anything but the briefest possible allusion to the subject matters of 

 that report ; and yet the value of a list of the plants inhabiting our State would 

 be greatly enhanced if the distribution of the species over the different portions of 

 the area which they occupy were also indicated, and the generalities at least of 

 the relations which the vegetation sustains to the physical geography. 



