Date of Award

6-1933

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Biological Sciences

First Advisor

William N Steil

Second Advisor

William J Grace

Abstract

The study of the Betulaceae and the Fagaceae in Milwaukee County and the immediate vicinity, taxonomically and from the standpoint of distribution presents an interesting problem. The family Betulaceae (Birch Family) comprises 11 species and 3 varieties, 8 species of which are arborescent. One genera is sometimes referred to as being arborescent in this vicinity, but since the author does not consider a lower growing shrub arborescent, he has excluded it from the classification of trees but has in the following discussion treated it as a shrub. The family Fagaceae (Beech Family) which comprises 8 species of which one is of the genus Fagus, and 7 of the genus Quercus. Primarily then, this study is one of trees with the exception previously mentioned.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment for the Degree of Bachelor of Science. Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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