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CATALOGUE OF THE PLANTS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
By I. A. Lapham, of 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
During several journeys through the state of Illinois, at 
various times, since the year 1836, I have carefully noted her 
botanical productions, and hence am able to make a catalogue of the 
species growing within her boundaries. But the following enumeration 
embraces many species which I have admitted on the authority of 
others. 
As early as 1794, Andre Michaux, a distinguished botanist of 
France, visited Illinois in search of plants, which were to be sent 
home to enrich the gardens and pleasure grounds of his own beautiful 
country. In 1803 was published, in Paris, his "Flora Boreali- 
Americana," the first general work on the botany of North America, 
in which a number of plants are set down as having been found " in 
regione Illmoensis," or " in vastissmus pratensibus Ill inoensibus ." 
In 1826 Dr. Lewis C. Beck published his contributions towards the 
botany of Illinois and Missouri, in the 10th and 11th volumes (1st 
senes) of Silliman's American Journal of Science and Arts. But most 
oi the localities mentioned by Dr. Beck are in Missouri. In the same 
work, volume 46, for 1843, we find a catalogue of a collection of plants 
made in Illinois and Missouri, by Charles A. Geyer, with critical remarks 
etc., by George Engelmann, M. D., of St. Louis. In this paper several 
new species are described, and quite a number added to the flora of the 
8tate. 
Dr. C. W. Short, of Louisville, Ky. , has puolished, in the W-stern 
