THE FLORA OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY. 
BY W. M. WHEELER, 
CURATOR OF Tut MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MuaCUU. 
It has become customary of late to publish lists of the 
species of plants and animals occurring in limited areas 
o the country. To the student of the distribution of organ- 
sms these lists are of great value. They are the necessary 
of fact from which generalizations can some day by 
some one be drawn to throw light on the exceedingly complex 
inter-relations of organisms. Though these lists necessarily 
occupy obscure places in the pages of little-read proceedings 
ransactions, they aie, nevertheless, when accurate, quite 
valuable as any other mere facts, whether morphological 
or physrologioal. The following list of the plants observed 
thounh r , ,tS ,° f ° Ur C0Unty ’ iS intend «l as a very small 
hough „°t valueless contribution to the flora of Wisconsin. 
to sol t C °T ? largdy fr ° m ^ OW " observations, but 
anists LT r r” ^ ° b ! CrVat, °- of our county bob 
Milwaukee PuWi^Mureum 3 ' 560 ''”^ 3 herbari “ m °' the 
annual tTnlperZe" Wd T “• “ 
country directlv Her' ^ r °“ raphy and annual rain fall of a 
of Place briefly to coTsideV tlesTdiff”"""" * 
waukee County. Afferent conditions in Mil- 
theXeTan obi?? ° f aBoUt *40 antes. It has 
■'a irregularly and ofttn delpl!^ ° f the Ion g sid « of which 
■would represent the Lake mL ° S ' ThiS si " U ° US ' me 
hig a n or eastern boundary 
