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1449. Heracleiim lanatum L. Reported from Paola by Dr. Oyster. 



1450. Grindelia ciliata. Described in Loudon. Found in Lawrence, and reported 



doubtfully in last report. Common in Rice and Barton counties. 



1451. Inula heleninm L. One specimen seen in Lawrence. 



1452. Rudbeckia fulgida Ait. Ind. 



1453. Actinella acaulis L. Rooks county. 



1454. Senecio vulgaris L. Rooks county. 



1455. Bumelia tenax Willd. Ind. 



1456. B. lycioides Gaert. Sumner county. 



1457. Plantago cordata Lam. Found in Douglas county by Prof. Snow. 



1458. Myosotis verna Nutt. Found in Douglas county by students. 



1459. Ipomea ciliolata Pers. Greenwood county. 



1460. Asclepias brachystephana Eng. Rooks county. 



1461. Asarum Canadense L. Reported from Johnson county by two persons, 



1462. Chenopodium murale L. Lawrence. 



1463. Echinodorus radicans Eng. Emporia. 



1464. E. parvulus Eng. Near Bismarck. 



1465. Juncus marginatus L. Douglas. 



1466. Fuirena fquarrosa Mx. Near Arkansas river. 



1467. F. pumila sp. or var? Near Arkansas river. 



1468. Scirpus pungens Kohl. Near the Arkansas. 



1869. Parpalum latifolium Le Conte. Near the Arkansas. 



1470. Eragrostis oxylepis Torr. Stafford county. 



1471. Aspidium Nov-Eboracense Willd. From Wamego. 



1472. Acacia filicina Willd. Independence. 



1473. Scirpus maritinus L. Near the Arkansas. 



A PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF THE FLORA OF MONT- 

 GOMERY COUNTY. 



BY E. N. PLANK, INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS. 



Montgomery county, which was, or should have been, named for Colonel 

 James Montgomery, the noted Kansas Jayhawker, is one of the southern 

 tier of counties, and third from the Missouri line. The thirty-seventh par- 

 allel forms its southern boundary, and its west line extends nearly to the 

 ninety-sixth meridian. The county is not a large one, being only twenty- 

 seven miles in extent from north to south, and twenty-four miles from east 

 to west. In various parts of the county, ridges or mounds, the remains 

 probably of a former elevation of the country, rise perhaps two hundred feet 

 above the surrounding prairie. These mounds give us a flora similar to that 

 of the country one or two hundred miles west of us. 



Thinking that I might learn as much by confining my labors to a single 

 county as by traveling over a larger extent of country during the botanical 

 season of 1881, and especially during that of 1882, I have given my spare 



