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angustif olia, are included in the catalogue of the flora of the 

 State by Hale, Riddell and Carpenter. Graiidiflora and maxima 

 were particularly conspicuous on the prairies, the former show- 

 ing a preference for dry situations and the latter for moist. 

 Alismaefolia was only found north of Lake Charles at a place 

 called Kinder, about half way between Lakes Charles and Alex- 

 andria. 



Coreopsis. 



The following species of Coreopsis were noted: Coreopsis 

 sieiiophyUa Boynton, and what the writer took to be Coreopsis 

 tripteris. But of the latter, Dr. Greene wrote that it is very small 

 and delicate compared with the northern forms, and oueht to i^o 

 <•; new variety. This species was connnon about forty miles north 

 (.f Lake Charles in dry soil. 



Helianthus. 



One species of Helianthus was very conspicuous, both by its 

 abundance and striking appearance, which the writer t )ok to be 

 H eliantlms Mollis, and so it was labeled by all the older collectors 

 in Louisiana. But Dr. Greene says that this plant cannot pos- 

 f:ibly be the same as the northern Helianthus Mollis, and that they 

 have nothing like it from .the North or South. He says that this 

 plant should be described as a new sub-species. 



Lacinaria. 

 (Liatris.) Several species of Lacinaria were collected, of 

 which the writer gives the names with uncertainty : 



Lacinaria acidota. 



Lacinaria spicata. 



Lacinaric, squarrosa. 

 And a fourth species, which is entirely unlike any Lacinaria he 

 has seen. AVhile the individual heads and flowers are almost iden- 

 tical with those of the species which he takes to be Lacinaria 

 acidota, the inflorescence is markedly racemose, with each head on 

 a bracted pedicel two to six inches long. The writer sent a draw- 

 ing of this species to Dr. E. L. Greene, but has as yet not heard 

 from him. 



