PLANTS OF ARKANSAS. l6l 



The article, in two parts, beginning on page 188 of Vol. 

 VI, is an enumeration of the ferns of Arkansas, with their dis- 

 tribution. The same author has also a note on the flora of 

 Arkansas in the American Naturalist, Vol. XV, p. 388. 



Other sources of information. — Some notes on the size 

 and occurrence of a few trees are given by John A. Warder 

 in the Botanical Gazette, Vol. VI, p. 188. 



In the Report on the Forests of North America, Vol. IX, 

 by Professor Charles S. Sargent, of the Tenth Census of the 

 United States, pp. 543, 544, is given a short sketch of the for- 

 ests of Arkansas ; an estimate of the standing short-leaved 

 pine (Pinus mitis) ; and a map of the pine, hardwood and 

 prairie lands of the state, probably prepared for that volume 

 by Professor Harvey. 



In 1884, the firm of Higgins & Bro., of St. Louis, Mo., pub- 

 lished a series of maps of the state, one of which gives out- 

 lines of the hardwood, pine and prairies of the state, the areas 

 being compiled from the notes of the original United States 

 land surveys. 



Mr. G. W. Letterman, of Allenton, Missouri, and a few of 

 Professor Harvey's former students at the Industrial University, 

 have also done some botanical work in the state. 



Nomenclature. — The oldest specific or varietal names are 

 used in this list (not going back of Linnaeus' Species, 1753) 

 under whatever genera they may originally have been em- 

 ployed. On this principle Professor William Trelease, Director 

 of the Missouri Botanical Gardens at St. Louis, has kindly re- 

 vised the list. It is but just to Professor Trelease to add, how- 

 ever, that the time that could be allowed for this revision was 

 too short to admit of the necessary investigations in all cases, 

 so that a few plants appear under questionable names current 

 in Gray's Manual or other works in general use. 



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