106 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
Of Franklin county plants with which I am most familiar, I have madea 
somewhat extended list to choose from. 
Uvularia perfoliata (bellwort). A slender-stemmed plant, with nodding 
yellow flowers. 
Polemonium reptans (Greek valerian). This plant has pretty pinnate 
leaves. Flowers light blue, bell shaped. 
Trillium erectum. Planta foot high. Flowers white, sometimes greenish, 
pink, or purple. This is, I believe, the only trillium found in Kansas. All mem- 
bers of the family are beautiful and are successfully cultivated in the East. For 
a common name the prettiest is the ‘‘ wake robin.”’ 
Geranium maculatum (wild cranesbill). This plant has palmate leaves and 
pale purple flowers. It seems to take very kindly to Kansas soil. 
LATE SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER FLOWERS, 
Mertensia virginica (lungwort, bluebell, Virginia cowslip). A very hand- 
some plant, which grows two feet high and has rich, blue-purple flowers, This 
plant grows in Kansas, in Franklin or Miami counties, where it has been intro- 
duced. 
Cypripedium pubescens (yellow lady-slipper). 
Cypripedium spectabile (showy lady-slipper). Flowers pink-purple. These 
two plants are terrestrial orchids, which I think would grow here, since we have 
the Cypripedium parviflurum, which florists consider one of the best. 
Asarum canadense (wild ginger). A plant with very beautiful leaves. 
Flowers stemless and interesting. 
Of early spring flowers, you will want the dog-tooth violets, Erythronium 
mesochoreum of the prairies and hillsides, and Erythronium albidum of the 
woods; the Dutchman’s breeches, Dicentra cucullaria; the blood root, San- 
guinaria canadensis; spring beauty, Claytonia virginica (this, I have been 
told, makes an elegant basket plant); all the violets, of which we have five species, 
including the wild pansy; the Anemone caroliniana and its near relation the 
Isopyrum biternatum. Golden Corydalis and chervil, Cherophyllum pel- 
tatum, seem worthy of a place here. 
Sweet-william, Phlox divaricata, and prairie phlox, Phlox pilosa, the 
former with its lavender blossoms, which you will find in bloom in the woods by 
May 1, and the latter the pink phlox of the meadows, a little later in time of 
blooming, will add both color and fragrance to your garden. You will make 
room for the larkspur, De/phinium tricorne, blue, and Delphinium carolinia- 
num, white, which I put together here, although the white bee larkspur belongs 
with summer bloomers. 
The wild columbine, A quilegia canadensis, with its bells of red and yellow, 
you will give a shady corner. The wild hyacinth, Camassia frazeri, and the 
common white mallow, Callirhoe alcwoides, will end the list of early spring 
flowers. 
Of late spring and early summer flowers, we have Penstemon cobea, the wild 
foxglove, the most showy of its kind, which is sometimes given in seed cata- 
logues: the evening primroses, yellow and white, Wnothera missouriensis, and 
(nothera speciosa; the wild petunias, two species, the common Ruellic 
ciliosa of the prairies, and the more rare and more handsome Fuellia strepens 
of open woodlands. This last plant has the peculiarity of forming seed in closed 
blossoms, and is therefore but a shy bloomer; still, the blossoms are so handsome 
and the plant itself so ‘‘ good looking’’ I venture to give it a place upon the list. 
The spiderwort, Tradescantia virginica, no patriot will be without, for it 
