Checklist Acknowledgements

A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Texas

Stephan L. Hatch

Professor and Curator, S. M. Tracy Herbarium

Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX 77843-2126

Kancheepuram N. Gandhi

former Assistant Curator, S. M. Tracy Herbarium

Larry E. Brown

Instructor

Houston Community College

Houston, TX

We are grateful to John T. Kartesz, Fred E. Smeins, Bob J. Ragsdale, and Barren S. Rector for their critical review of the manuscript. We thank Barney Lipscomb and Carol Lehmkuhl for providing literature on nomenclatural data and Kevin B. Jensen, Stanley D. Jones and Joseph K. Wipff for help with distributional data. Our thanks are due to Stephanie Coleman and LeNae Boyett, who assisted in the technical preparation of the manuscript. We also thank our wives, Nora Lee Hatch, Kasthuri Gandhi, and Ruby L. Brown for their encouragement and understanding.