A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE FLOWERING 
PLANTS OF MADISON COUNTY. 
BY H. A. MUELLER. 
Madison is a prairie county, yet nearly one-fourth of 
its area was covered at some time, with timber. 
The surface, generally speaking, is quite undulating, 
becoming broken along the courses of the streams. Thus 
the conditions for a varied flora are favorable, from plants 
growing on the high prairies to those growing on the 
timbered hillsides, in the swamps, and along the creeks 
and rivers. 
At the present time the homes of most of our native 
flowers are limited to the highways and timbered areas on 
account of the cultivation and pasturage of the land. 
The following list of flowering plants was collected 
during the summers of 1900, 1901, 1902 and 1903. The 
grasses and sedges have not been studied. The nomencla- 
ture followed is that of Gray’s Manual, Sixth Edition. 
Ranunculace,e. Crowfoot Family. 
Clematis virginiana L. Common Virgin’s Bower. Not 
common; rich soil; woods. 
C. viorna L. Leather Flower. Rare; river bottoms. 
Anemone cijlindrica Gray. Long-fruited Anemone. In- 
frequent. 
A. pennsglvanica L. Common on low land. 
Hepatica acutiloba DC. Rare ; steep hillsides in open 
woods. 
Anemonella thalictroides Spach. Rue-Anemone. Rare. 
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