. THE. WOODY PLANTS OF KENTUCKY. l
By H. GARMAN, · ‘ .
ENTOMOLOGIST AND BoTAN1sT or THE STATION.  
The following list is to be regarded as preliminary to a more 1  
complete account of the woody plants of Kentucky. The material 1 I
for it has been accumulated during a good many years of collect- {
.— · ing and observation, both as State Inspector of Nurseries and as  
~ Entomologist and Botanist ofthe Kentucky Experiment Station, V " . y
1 tho most of the time spent on native shrubs and trees has been in- · I A
· cidental to the other work. It is believed that the list is nearly com- _ It t
~ plete, notwithstanding, but some species are included more to gel:  
further information about them as Kentucky plants than because of   T
E a belief that they occur here. An example is the long-leaved or    
—_  Georgia pine, said by Lafayette De1i‘riese to have been observed by 4  
Q him near Pound Gap. This pine' is the common species in the 4
in sandy regions of the South Atlantic coast, and it seems very un-  
I likely that it ever extended northward to our limits. But De-  
_. Friese wrote many years ago, at a time when our forests were much   I
 ` more extensive than now, and may be supposed to have had an op-  
 - portunity to observe species here that have since been exterminated - L iii
  by farming and lumbering operations.  
 L Several earlier lists of Kentucky plants have been prepared at   -`'v'  
,t_   different times. One of the earliest, perhaps the iirst, was written  
  by "lvlenrieo M’Murtrie, M. D.," under the title "Florula Louis-  
M.   Yillensis” and was published in Louisville in 1819, coming from V 
i the press of "S. Penn, Jun. Main Street." It was printed with  
 t other observations made by the author, the whole being described  
  by him as, S  
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