CHECK LIST OF THE FLORA OF MILWAUKEE 
COUNTY. 
By Howland Russel. 
The following list is, of course, mainly a compilation of the 
two lists of W. M. Wheeler, published in April, 1888, and April 
'89, with those of W. T. Bennetts, published July, 1900, and 
Jan. 1902, all of which were issued as bulletins of this society. To 
them have been added the names of such species as have been re- 
ported since the last of those lists was published. The generic 
and specific names used in those lists have been altered, wherever 
necessary, to bring them in accord with the latest authorities. 
There are several species given in the old lists which probably 
were never found in this county, but were so recorded as a result 
of imperfect identification. But, as this cannot be conclusively 
proven, these names have been included in the present list, 
although those plants are not now found in the localities men- 
tioned. There are others reported from localities the character 
of which has so changed that the species recorded are no longer 
found there, although they may perhaps grow elsewhere in the 
county. This is notably the case with those plants given as found 
in "Larkins Tamarack Swamp" (Sec. i Town of Greenfield.) 
This swamp has entirely disappeared, the trees have been cut 
away, the soil drained and the entire tract divided into vegetable 
gardens, so that there is now practically no trace of the original 
flora. The same is true of one or two localities from which spe- 
cies were reported by Rev. T. A. Bruhin. Some of these spe- 
cies, it may be confidently stated, no longer grow in the county. 
The present list is doubtless more or less incomplete in several 
ways, for new species are constantly being added to our records 
as certain groups of plants and certain localities are more care- 
fully studied. Except in the neighborhood of the lake, the ex- 
treme Northern and Southern parts of the county have received 
very little attention or study, and there are but few records from 
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