i6o Wyoming Experiment Station. 



Cuscuta decora, Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad, i, 501 (1859). C. 

 indecora, Choisy. 



Parasitic on Alfalfa, Sheridan Experiment Farm, August 19, 

 1S92. 

 Cuscuta epilinum, Weihe. Archiv. Apoth. viii. 54 (1824). 



On Alfalfa, Laramie Experiment Farm, July, 1894 (No. 1210). 



SOLANACE^. 



Solanum. rostratum, Dunal. Sol. 234, t. 24 (1813). 

 Probably abundant on the eastern border. 



Fort Laramie, September 5, 1892 ; Whalen Canon, July 18, 

 1894 (No. 527). Not yet reported as a bad weed in any locality. 



Solanum triflorum, Nutt. Gen. i, 128 (18LS). 



Particularly annoying as a weed in garden and " truck " patches; 

 small plants, such as Carrots and Parsnips, must be " weeded " by 

 hand or this weed will completely smother them. 



Experiment Farm, September 15, 1894. 



Physalis lanceolata, Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i, 149 (1803). 



This genus seems to be confined to the lower altitudes of the 

 north and east ; rather plentiful on the Platte and adjoining foot- 

 hills. 



A large form of this species from Blue Grass Hills, August 8, 

 1894 (No. 365); also a small and more pubescent form from the 

 same place (No. 295). 



Physalis lanceolata laevigata, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, x, H2. 



Infrequent ; in a canon near the Platte at Fairbanks, July 14, 

 1894 (No. 478). 



SCROPHULARIACE^. 



Scrophularia Marylandica, L. Sp. PI. ()]9 (1753). 



Our specimens are far from typical ; the thyrsus very narrow, the 

 separate cymes simple ; leaves large and truncate at base. 



Sybille, July 8, 1894 (No. 317); Pole Creek, June 30. 1895 (No. 

 1410). Specimens from Garfield Peak, July 29. 1894 (No. 690) 

 have large deltoid-cordate leaves even to the summit of the stem ; 

 infloresence only a simple cyme. 



