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time to a study of the flora of this county. For this purpose I have visited 

 every township and school district in it — standing on its highest mounds and 

 going into its deepest valleys and ravines. 



Hoping to find time during the coming year to prepare and publish a cat- 

 alogue of the plants of this county, at this time a few general observations 

 must suffice. I have found growing in this county over a thousand species 

 of flowering plants and ferns, and shall have a plant for every name reported; 

 all of which I have seen growing, and which, with perhaps a half-dozen ex- 

 ceptions, I have gathered with my own hands. These plants represent over 

 ninety orders, and more than three hundred and fifty genera. It is about as 

 large a number of plants as are reported in Coulter's and Porter's Flora of 

 Colorado, three-fourths as many as have been reported as growing in Kan- 

 sas, and more than one-fourth as many as have been found in the entire 

 United States east of the Mississippi river. We have about seventy-five 

 species of climbing plants, and over one hundred species of shrubs and trees. 



Our flora is rich in species of Cruciferse, Leguminosse, Umbelliferse, Com- 

 positse, Scfophulariaceaj, Labiatse, and in Gramiueaj. We have at least a 

 hundred and twenty-five species of grasses, native and naturalized; nearly 

 as many as have been found in all Kansas. 



We are so far south that a few plants from the extreme southern portion 

 of the country have ventured to emigrate here, and are trying to make a 

 permanent home with us. Among these are Acacia filicina, Willd. (occa- 

 sionally found on the mounds), and more rarely Cooperia Drummondii, a 

 Texan member of the Amaryllis family. 



Other interesting plants, whose range botanists may be glad to learn, grow 

 here, among which are — 



Acer saccharinum, Wang. 

 Sapindus marginatus, Willd. 

 JEscuIus parvi flora, Walt. 

 Stylosanthes elatior, Swartz. 

 Gnaphalium purpnreura, L. 

 Centanrea Americana, N. 

 Passiflora incaruata, L. 



Quamoclit coccinea, Mcench. 

 Gilia coronopifolia, Pers. 

 Sabbatia campestria, Nutt. 

 Solanum alrea^ifolium, Cav. 

 Comandra umbellata, Nutt. 

 Phoradendron flavescens, Nutt. 

 Acorus calamus, L. 



Lobelia cardinalis, L. j Muhlenbergia capillaria, Ruth. 



Castilleia coccinea, Spring. 



Monarda punctata, Le. 



Eryngium Leavenworthii, Torr. & Gray. 



Gymnopogon racemosus, Beauv. 

 Chloris verticillata. 

 Camptosorus rhizophyllus, Link. 



