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vegetation. The following statements taken from I'.ritton and 

 Brown's Illustrated Flora of the Northern States and Canada 

 give the technical description of the plant : 



Biennial or perennial, somewhat wooly when young, but becoming 1 

 glabrate ; stem branched, leafy. 2 ft. to 5 ft. high. Leaves green 

 both sides, lanceolate or oblong in outline, sessile and clasping or the 

 basal ones short-petioled and somewhat spatulate pinnatifid into tri- 

 angular or broader, spinulose-margined and prickle-tipped, entire or 

 dentate lobes ; heads involucrate by the upper leaves, 2 to 4 inches broad, 

 \ 1 A to \ l /2 inches high; bracts of the involucre narrowly lanceolate, 

 roughish and ciliate, long-acuminate, unarmed ; flowers pale yellow, 

 yellowish, or occasionally purple. 



In moist or sandy soil, Maine to Pennsylvania, Florida and Texas. 

 Abundant along the edges of salt-meadows in New York and New 

 Jersey. May-August, or earlier in the South. 



In Louisiana this plant is attractive to very few animals; 

 however, certain insects may be found feeding on or visiting 

 this plant. The collections of these insects* were made by the 

 author in the vicinity of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, including the 

 levee along the Mississippi River, and all dates in this paper 



ai'e of the year 1920. 



HEMIPTERA. 



Acanthocephala declivis Say. (Coreidae.) Mar. 29. Several speci- 

 mens taken on leaves. May 4. Numerous. 



Agallia constricta Van D. (Cicadellidae.) Mar. 29. Few. 



Euschistus bifibulus P. B. (Pentatomidae.) Mar. 29. Common. 



Euschistus ictericus L. Mar. 29. One specimen taken. 



Euschistus servus Say. Alar. 28. Common. April 20. Numerous, 

 copulating. May 4 and 20. Common. Specimens practically 

 on every plant. 



Euschistus tristigmus Say. Alar. 28. Two specimens. 



Entylia concisa \Yalk. (Alembracidae.) Mar. 29. Common. 



Leptoglossus phyllopus Linn. (Coreidae.) Alar. 28 and 29. Nu- 

 merous all over plants. 



Myzus braggii Gillette. (Aphididae.) April 8. Some of the plants 

 almost covered with this aphid. 



Nezara viridula L. (Pentatomidae.) Mar. 29. Few. April 8. 

 Common. 



Phymata wolfii Stal. ( Phymatidae.) April 8. Occasional specimen- 

 found in (lowers. 



Repipta taurus Fab. (Reduviidae.) April 20. One specimen. 



* The author is indebted to the following for some identifications: 

 Dr. J. M. Aldrich, Dr. H. G. Dyar, W. L. McAtee, H. L. Viereck, 



