
PREFACE. 

For a number of years the Local Flora Committee of 
the Engelmann Botanical Club, has been gathering data 
for the publication of the flora in and about Saint Louis. It 
was the intention of that committee to include species, local- 
ities and collectors, also to list the specimens in the _ her- 
baria of the Club, of the Missouri Botanical Garden, of the 
local collections and collectors. Since the manuscript has 
always been in the possession of the Local Flora Committee, 
it has not been an easy matter for individuals to know 
whether a certain species, or a certain locality for a report- 
ed species, has yet been listed A complete list of all the 
species contained in the manuscript together with numbers 
representing the reported localities, is embodied in this 
preliminary list, which it is thought will facilitate the entry 
of new species and localities into the list. Both alphabeti- 
cal and topographical lists of localities precede the main 
list, and every alternate page is left blank for notes and en- 
tries. 
Acknowledgment is due the members of the Local 
Flora Committees for the past twelve years, and other mem- 
bers of the Club, for the work on the Pteridophytes and 
Phanerogams, and without whose interest the publication of 
the present list would have been impossible. Among these 
may be mentioned Miss Mulford, and Messrs. Chandler, 
Coulter, Eggert, Hikenberry, Fullgraf, Giatfelter, Grindon, 
Hus, Irish, Kellogg, Letterman, Nelson, Norton, Pammel, 
Russell, Von Schrenk, Spaulding. Thompson and Trelease. 
With the exception of the Pteridophytes and Phanero- 
gams most of the lists have been prepared by individual 
workers as follows: Myxomycetes and Eumycetes (except 
the Hymeniales), by Dr. Perley Spaulding, assisted by Dr. 
G. G. Hedgecock; the Algae by Miss Hayden and Dr. 
Henri Hus; the Hymeniales by Dr. N. M. Glatfelter; the 
Lichens collected by Dr. Nelson, verified by Mr. Merrill; 
Mosses collected by Dr. Nelson; Hepatics collected by Dr. 
Nelson, verified by Dr. Evans. 
Genera and species have been named after MacBride’s 
