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lium. Tothis group belong a large number of the sunflower 
family, as several asters, solidagos, the compass plant (Si/phium 
laciniatum), four species of cone flower (Echinacea and Rudbeckia), 
a few sunflowers proper (Helianthus), artemesias and hawkweeds 
(Hieractum). The verbenas, especially V. stricta and V. bracteosa, 
are missed in the East, and the mountain mint (Pycnanthemum 
lanceolatum) and wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) do not pre- 
vail in waste land in New Jersey. Among the borrages the false 
gromwell (Onxosmodium Carolinianum) and the puccoon (Litho- 
spermum canescens) common to Iowa do not appear in the New 
Jersey list, neither do several of the smart-weeds (Polygonum). 
If we look at the additions made for the eastern list we find 
present many of the standard weeds; thus wild radish (Raphanus 
Raphanistrum), a rank pepper grass (Lepedium campestre) and 
the turnip (Brassica campestris), escaped from cultivation, white 
melilot (Melilotus alba), vetch or tare (Victa sativa), and live for 
ever (Sedum Telephium), are common pests to New Jersey. The 
button weed (Déodia teres) and teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris) are not 
overlooked also, and in the great weed family (Composite) wild 
feverfew (Chrysanthemum Parthenium), elecampane (/nula He- 
lenium) and salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius) figure largely in 
New Jersey but not in Iowa. Pennyroyal (Hedeoma pulegioides) 
and horehound (Marrubium vulgare) are two of the eastern weeds 
that take the place of some mints that are in the western list. 
While there are several weedy Ipomeeas, the /. pandurata or man- 
of-the-earth is one that will balance several of the same family in 
the Iowa flora. The goosefoots are numerous in species in the 
East, and in place of the three for Iowa there are not less than 
six in New Jersey. There is also a doubling of the number of 
Amaranths or pigweeds. One of the worst eastern weeds with 
an equal representative in Iowa is the wild onion (A//ium vineale), 
and its own sister the wild leek (Allium tricoccum) is a pest also 
in New J ersey. Among the grasses New Jersey is plagued with, 
the Bermuda grass (Cynodon Dactylon) and two cheats (Bromus 
racemosus and B. tectorum) are above what Iowa can claim as pests; 
while one sedge called nut-grass or coco-grass (Cyperus rotundus) 
is becoming a greater pest each year in the eastern fields. 
In short the New Jersey list can be made up from the one 
