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muticus^ Pursli.; Cirsium pumiliim^=Cnicus pumilus, Torr.; Cirsium 
horridulmn^=-Cmcu$ horridulus^ Pursh.; Cirsium arv€Nse^=Cnicus ar- 
vensis, Hoffm.; Lappa officinatis=Arctium Lappa^ L. ; Cynthia Virgi- 
nica=^Krigia aviplexicaiilis^ Natt.; Cynthia Dandelion=^Krigia Dan^ 
delion, Nutt.; Hieracium scabrum^ in part=Z^. Marianum^ Willd.; 
Nabalus albus=Prenanthes alba^ L.; Nabalus albus^ var. Serpentaria 
Prenanthes Seri>entaria, Pursh • Nabalus altissimus=P rtnanthes altis- 
Nabalus 
Nabalus 
Fraseri, var, iniegrifolius=P, Serpentaria^ var, ^^zr^^/a, Gray; Naba-^ 
lus namis=^P renanthes Serpentaria^ var. nana^ Gray; Nabalus Bootit 
Prena?ithes Bootii^ Gray; Nabalus virgatus=^Prenanihes virgata^ 
Michx.; Nabalus racemosus^^Prejianthes racemosa^ Michx.; Nabalus 
crepidineus-=-Prenanthes crepidi?iea, Michx.; Taraxacum Dens-leonis 
officinale, Weber; Lactuca Canadensis, var. iniegrifalia==-L. in- 
tegrifolia 
Mulgedium pulchellum 
Z. >^/r5///^,Muhl.; 
Muli 
atum=Lactuca acuminata^ Gray; Mulgedium Floridanum=L, Flort- 
dana^ Gaertn.; Mulgedium leucophceum^=L. leucopkcea. 
A. F. FOERSTE. 
Botanical Notes from Kansas,— As it is rarely that we see any 
communications from this State concerning our flora, in any of our 
botanical publications, I have thought a few lines in regard to it 
might be of interest. I made a trip during the first week of Septem- 
ber out as far as Harper County, a little over three hundred miles 
southwest of Kansas City, Mo., traveling over the Southern Kansas 
R. R., which runs through the best counties in the State, Fine 
crops were noticed in every county through which I passed. The 
emigration to Southern Kansas this year is very large. 
The following is a list of some of the plants collected on this trip: 
Menizelia ornata, T. & G., Harper Co.; Eryngium Leavenworthii, T, 
& G., Allen Co., common; Grindelia lanceolata, Nutt., Southern 
Kansas; Helianthus Maximiliani^ Schrader, common everywhere I 
traveled; H, petiolaris, Nutt., in Cowley Co, and west, common in 
Harper Co.; Coreopsis cardaminifolia, DC, Cowley and Harper 
Counties; T/ielesperma gracile, Gray, Harper Co.; Liatris punctata, 
Hook., found here, and common southwest; Hosackia Purshiana, 
\Benth., grows here and is common in Harper Co.; Dalea laxiflora, 
Pursh., Harper Co-; Aster patens, L., near Independence; Dicliptera 
brac/iiata, Spr., Cowley Co-; Solanum elceagnifolium, Cav., Cowley 
and Harper Counties; Eriogonum tomentosum, Mx., common in Har- 
per Co.; Atriplex hastata, L., Sumner Co ; Frelichia Floridana, Moq., 
Harper Co., common. Southwestern and Western Kansas are w^ 
fields for botanists. 
Paola, Kansas. J 
Death of John Williamson.— We have to mou 
Mr. 
Williamson was born in Scotland in 1857, came to this country in 
1866, and established himself in Louisville, Ky., at first in the busij 
ness of wood-carving, and afterwards in a foundry for ornamenta 
brass-work. An innate taste for decorative art here found oppor- 
