Essential and Fixed Oils of Kansas Plants

Abstract

The following report deals with those Kansas plants (one or two trees included) which are known to yield or are suspected of yielding essential and fixed oils . No cultivated plants have been considered. Bernard B, Smyth's "Check List of the Plants of Kansas", published in Topeka, 1892, was used. This is the most complete catalog of Kansas plants available at the present time. The numbers to the Left of the botanical names refer to those of this check list . A new flora of the state has been in preparation for several years since the publication of the list mentioned above, but it is still unfinished. Wherever possible the analyses of the contained oil is given or else references where that information may be found. In many cases the analysis of the plant merely mentioned the presence or even suspected presence of an oils.