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27th. — Acerates angustifolia, Cirsium undulatura, Coreopsis tinctoria 

 28th. — Asclepias tuberosa, Rhus radicans. 

 29th. — Dalea aurea, Dalea alopecuroides. 



.TULY. 



Petalostemon villosus, Cenchrus tribuloides, Mentzelia albicaulis, Cus- 

 euta chlorocarpa, Desraanthus brachylobus, Stenosiphon virgatus, Gerar- 

 dia purpurea, Cleomella angustifolia, Lobelia cardiualis, Salvia Pitcheri, 

 Asclepias verticillata, Silphium laciuiatum, Asclepias incarnata, Vernonia fas- 

 ciculata, Liatris pychnostachya. Cassia chamsecrista, Froelichia procumbens, 

 Acerates rotundifolia, Asclepias verticillata nana, Polygonum persicaria, Cus- 

 cuta glomerata, Erigeron divaricatum, Paronychia Jamesii, Gaillardia pul- 

 chella, Grindelia squarrosa, Eustoma Russelliana, Flaveria linearis, Liatris 

 squarrosa, Euphorbia marginata. Cassia Marylandica, Phaseolus diversi- 

 folius. 



STONE IMPLEMENTS IN TREGO COUNTY. 



BY J. SAVAGE, LAWRENCE. 



In company with Prof. Patrick, of the State University, the writer made 

 a short collecting tour in Trego county, Kansas, in 1878. We stopped off at 

 the new town of Wa-Keeney, for headquarters, and made side-trips to differ- 

 ent parts of the county 



The third day after our arrival, we made an excursion nine miles north- 

 west of Wa-Keeney, on the Saline fork of the Kansas river, to look after 

 some bones reported to be of large size. We found them to be the bones of 

 a buffalo, and protruding from the alluvial soil upon the side of a draw or 

 ravine. 



It was here, at the residence of Mr. J. M. Davis, that we found numerous 

 fragments of stone implements lying about the premises. These we readily 

 secured through the generosity of Mr. Davis, and also made arrangements 

 for saving any others he might afterward find. The implements thus secured, 

 whole and in fragments, amount to several hundred pounds in weight. They 

 consisted of stone mallets (many of them of large size), pestles, lap-stones, 

 grinding-stones, and smoothing-stones. The smoothing-stones were many of 

 them much worn by use, and nearly all of them were unbroken. 



The bottom upon the north bank of the Saline, where most of these imple- 

 ments were found, was covered so thickly with tent-poles, of oak and cedar, 

 that Mr. Davis and some of his neighbors used them for firewood nearly all 

 summer; and what seemed to me a little singular was, that over several 

 acres of the bottom and slope adjoining were, mixed with the coarse sand of 

 the numerous ant-hills, many glass beads of various colors, and of recent 



