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Pittsburg State University Pittsburg State University Digital Commons The Educational Leader, 1937-1959 University Archives 3-1-1951 The Educational Leader, Vol. 14, No. 2 Kansas State Teachers College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/edleader Recommended Citation Kansas State Teachers College, "The Educational Leader, Vol. 14, No. 2" (1951). The Educational Leader, 1937-1959. 39. https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/edleader/39 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Educational Leader, 1937-1959 by an authorized administrator of Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE EDUCATIONAL LEADER Published by the Faculty of the KANSAS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Pittsburg, Kansas Vo1,. 14 MARCH, 1951 No. 2 A1·chitect's drawing of the new Memorial Student Union Building, Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, now under construction on the north side of the campus, on Cleveland Street, between the Library and the Gymnasium. ]951] THE EDUCATIONAL LEADER 67 ton and Brown's Illustrated Flora last comprehensive Flora for this o/ the United States and Canada. area, and 42 years more recent than The flora of the central prairies and the Seventh Edition of the same plains extends east to the forested work, specifically covers the area areas of the Ozarks and the Mis south to the southern borders of ~i~ sippi River valley and is covered Missouri and Kansas and west to ]Jy Rydberg's Flora of the Prairies the 96th meridian. This, then, in and Plains of Central North Amer cludes the flora of eastern Kansas, ica. The flora of the southeastern north and east of Caney in Mont United States extends northwest as gomery County, and it is probable far as the Arkansas and the Okla that few native or naturalized homa Ozarks. Small's Manual of plants can be found in this area the Southeastern Flora covers this which are not included in this man area as far to the northwest as west ual. Hence, this new edition of emTennessee, and in general is the Gray,s is now being adopted as the best manual for the flora of Arkan principal authority for this her sas and eastern Oklahoma although barium. Rydberg's an d Small's these areas are not specifically cov works will still be used for their re ered by any comprehensive taxo spective areas for such plants as are nomic manual. Thus it is evident not included in Gray's Manual, that southeastern Kansas lies near while for those relatively few plants the limits of these three distinctly brought in from more distant re different regional floras. gions the best available manuals for Since Rydberg's Flora covers all those areas will be used. of Kansas and is newer (by some 20 This change of principal author years) than the Seventh edition of ity from Rydberg's Flora to Gray's Gray's Manual or Britton and Manual has made necessary an ex Brown's Flora (both of which were tensive revision of the scientific written primarily for the forested names on many of the herbarium northeastern s e c t ion of the sheets and in the catalogue. How country), it was decided (in 1946) ever, no further major revision of to adopt Rydberg's Flora as the names of herbarium specimens is principal authority for the herbar probable for many years. ium, and the collections were labeled accordingly. Plants not in SCOPE OF HERBARIUM cluded in Rydberg's Flora were Since the recognition of different named according to the Seventh species of closely related plants is edition of Gray's Manual or Small's made much easier by actually com Manual, depending on the locality paring the various kinds placed side of the collection. by side, no attempt is being made On the last of June, 1950, the to limit the collection in this her Eighth edition of Gray's Manual of barium only to the local flora. In Botany appeared. This remarkable stead, a representative collection of work, 19 years more recent than the specimens from various areas is be- 1951] THE EDUCATIONAL LEADER 69 ably obtained from the vicinity of Collections made o u t s i d e the Pittsburg. United States include one from Canada, one from England, and one DISTRIBUTION from Scotland. The distribution of Kansas col The collections in the KSTC her lections by counties is as follows:- barium represent the effort of 108 Allen . 1 collectors. Of these, 79 persons ~&nM ...... ... 1 made 1277 collections which had Bourbon .... ... 7 been deposited in the herbarium Butler .... 5 prior to 1946, while the remaining 122 Cherokee 29 have added 728 specimens since Crawford .... .. .. .. .... 1,236 Douglas 4 I became the herbarium curator. Greenwood .. ... .. ..... ... 3 COLLECTORS La bette 1 Linn 14 The following list of collectors Montgomery 1 not only includes the number of Miami . 1 collections made by each, but also Neosho .... .. .... ... · · 37 shows the years in which their col Sedgwick 1 lections were made. Sum ner ..... .. ... ... ... 3 No. of Wilson 8 Collectors collections Year County unknown . .. ..... ..... 6 Angelly, Doris . 1 1939 (Total of 16 counties) Baldridge, W. L. 16 1947 Bass, Harriette E. 21 1949 The distribution of specimens Blase, Robert. 35 1950 collected from other states is as fol Bolton, Rexford . 7 1939 lows: - Bond, Mrs. Ray . .... 8 1940 5 Boone, Leo .... ... 3 1940 Alabama . Bournonville, Lee . 9 Arizona ....... .... .. ... 1 1933(?) Breckenridge, Elma . 2 1938 Arkansas 21 Briley, Betty . 2 1941 California 1 Buess, John • •• • 0 • •• ••• 18 1940 Colorado .. .. ... .. .. ... .... 36 Buck, (?) . .......... 1 (?) Georgia 10 Burghart, Wilma . • • • • • 0 • 50 1939 Illinois ........ 46 Burner, Charles . 11 1948 Indiana 4 Burner, Pat Hoskins . 63 1949 Kentucky .. ... ... .. 4 Caldwell, Prof. L. H . 1 1949 Louisiana ....... .. .. ... 1 Carlile, ( ? ) .... 15 1941 Michigan ... 25 Chapman, Blair. ...... 10 1939 Minnesota 1 Clements, Sammy. 2 1938 Mississippi . 4 Colyer, Luther .. •••• • 0. 0 9 1939 Missouri ........ .. 138 Cooper, Virginia . 16 1939 North Carolina 6 Coughenour, V . 1 1929 Ohio .............. ... 2 Cox, Dillard. 12 1941 Oklahoma . ...... 26 Dellinger, Dr. 0. P .. 1 1940 Tennessee 3 Dennis, Prof. Parley . 1 1940 Virginia . ....... .... ... ... 4 Doores, James 11 1939 West Virginia . 3 Dobbs, Bruce A .. ... 9 1948 Wisconsin ..... 33 Drummiller, ( ?) ........ 1 1941 (Total of 22 states) Dryden, Fred . ...... 1 1950 70 THE EDUCATIONAL LEADER [MARcu No. of No. of Collectors collections Year CollectOTs collections Year Dumm, H . & Burnside, P., 1 ("? ) Rite, Harold . 12 1939 Fairley, Gretta . 1 1946 Robison, Dr. F. S. 1 1949 Featherstone, Fred . 15 1949 Ross, Bennington. 248 1938-39 Fish, Maxine .... 21 1949 Rutherford, Charles and Foiles, C. F .. 6 1939 Rutherford, Lillian . 1 1948 Fritts, ( ? ) ... 10 1941 Sammons, L. L. 8 1939 Galligar, Dr. Gladys C .. 3 1949 Sherman, Theodore 29 1948 Gardner, Lillian .. .... 10 1941 Shewmaker, Jimmie Jay . 16 1950 Gier, Dr. Leland J . ... 1 1940 Siple, Belle ............ _ 10 1939 Gier, Dr. Leland J. and Snider, Masse . .. .. .. 31 1928 Mannoni, S. A .. 19 1939 Snider, Masse and Gobetz, Robert .. _.... 14 1949 Nading, Ethel . 1 1928 Grawe, Avis, Iva Leist, Snider, Masse and · and Olive Falls 1 1928 Taylor, Vera. 9 1928 Hackney, Betty .. 2 1940 Spendlove, W. G. 1 1940 Hall, Louise . __ . 18 1939 Sperry, Dr. Theodore M., 253 )1934-40 Hammerton, Harry. 10 1940 l1947-50 Holmes, E. Bruce .. 13 1948 Stanley, G. Leigh . 26 1950 Householder, D. J .. 34 1939 Stevens, Edward . .. 16 1940 Howell, Nellie ... .. .. 5 1944 Stillwaugh, George 1 1947 Huffman, Marion . 37 1950 Stone, Elliott ... ..... 8 1939 Hunt, (?) .. _.. 10 (?) Sutterby, J. ..... .. 1 (?) James on, Marie . .. 2 1939 Taylor, Vera 34 1926-28 Johnston, Ellsworth 12 1948 Taylor, Vera and Jones, T. W . 16 1941 Nading, Ethel . 2 1928 Korte, Robert L. .. 9 1950 Trabue, ( ? ) and Lance, John . 29 1939 Robinson, (?) .. .. 1 ( ?) Lance, Ray ... .... 17 1942 Trent, Dr. J. A.. 49 1940 Leist, Dr. Claude .. 9 1927-30 Trogden, W ... 41 1939 Leist, Mrs. Iva. 1 1927 Van Cochrane, Bertie 1 1938 Leonard, Dr. Edgar M .. 32 1948 Van Norsdall, W .. 40 1942 Luciana, Sister M .. 45 1939 Viets, Loren ..... .... 2 1941 M~Cann, Pat 1 1950 Wantland, C .. 32 ( ?) McClure, Al . .. 7 1941 West, Kent ...... .. .. .. 4 1939 McDonald, Joyce . 1 1927 Wilson, Dan .......... 28 1948 Mannoni, S. A .. 1 1940 Yencie, Frances . 1 ( ?) Mertz, Edna .. 1 1939 Plant Taxonomy class . 4 1948 Miller, Herbert . 4 1939 Collectors unknown .. 193 1916 -4~ Miller, Jean ......... 19 1942 Modury, E. 1 1928 Any corrections or additional Moore, Lois ... ... 9 1929 items of information for these lists Mullen, G. A .. 22 1941 are welcome. The collections by Nading, Ethel _.. 6 1928 unidentified collectors, in addition Nelson, Ernest .. 54 1950 to the plants collected in Colorado Norman, Phil. .. 12 1941 in 1916 and 1917, were mostly Paradee, Dan .. _ 13 1942 Potter, Blendera .. .. 6 1937 made in 1927, 1928, and 1929. Register, Katy . 2 1938 Several of them, however, were col Rinehart, ( ? ) ..... ... 2 (?) lected in 1938 and 1939. 1951] THE EDUCATIONAL LEADER 71 PLANTS IN THE KSTC (PITTSBURG) HERBARIUM, AS OF SEPTEMBER 7, 1950 In order that a permanent record H ypnaceae-Concluded of the plants of the herbarium may Leptodictyum riparium ( L. Hedw.) Warnst. be made available to those inter Leskeaceae ested this initial list is being pub Leskea graciliscens Hedw. lished with the expectation that Thudium microphyllum ( Hedw.) Best. from time to time supplementary Mniaceae lists of additions to the herbarium Mnium cuspidatum Hebw. Polytrichaceae will be made. For brevity, (and Atrichum angustatum ( Brid.) BSG since common names are very un Catharinaea angustata Brid. certain entities anyway), only the Pottiaceae scientific names are listed. These Barbula unguiculata Hedw.