I56 ANNUAL REPORT STATE GEOLOGIST. 



He has gone carefully over the lists of Nuttall and Lesquereux, 

 has examined all the published papers that relate to or bear 

 upon the botany of the State, and incorporated whatever there 

 is of value in making up such a list in this table. He has also 

 pointed out errors in the old lists and appended notes on 

 many of the species that cannot fail to be of great service in 

 future work on the botany of Arkansas. 



It was originally my intention to publish the list as Pro- 

 fessor Coville's, but having traveled over every part of the 

 State and having thus had better opportunities for observing 

 its flora I have made additions and changes in it for which he 

 ought not to be held responsible. I have preserved, however, 

 the order of arrangement and all his notes substantially as he 

 handed them in. I wish therefore to give him credit for 

 whatever there may be good in the list and to take upon my- 

 self the responsibility for all its defects. 



Professor Coville's interesting paper on the general topic of 

 the flora of the State is appended to the list as a proper re- 

 sume of the subject, while his review of the bibliography of 

 Arkansas is inserted with this introductory part of the paper. 



Professor Call's aid. — Besides the botanists referred to in 

 Professor Coville's notes (Nuttall, Lesquereux, Harvey and 

 Butler) several of the assistants of the Geological Survey have 

 cordially co-operated with me in making the list as nearly 

 complete as possible. Professor R. Ellsworth Call, who was 

 engaged for several months on the geology of Crowley's 

 Ridge, has added his observations upon the botany of that 

 portion of the State. Professor Call has a chapter upon the 

 forest trees of eastern Arkansas in Volume II of this Survey's 

 report fDr 1889, chapter xxm, pp. 183-202. 



Professor Simonds. — Professor Frederic W. Simonds, for- 

 merly at the State University, kindly examined the herbarium 

 collected by Professor Harvey and now at that institution, and 

 a number of valuable observations have thus been added by 

 Professor Simonds to the list. 



