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P. pubescens. Through eastern Kansas. 
Cheetochloa levigata perennis. Reno, Stafford, Meade, Gray. 
Aristida dichotoma. Kingman. 
A. gracilis. Montgomery, Chautauqua. 
Muhlenbergia capiliaris (Lam.) Trin. Elk, Chautauqua. 
Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) Beauv. Wyandotte (MacKenzie). 
Sporobolus argutus. Stafford, Edwards. 
Agrostis elliottiana Schultes. Chautauqua. 
Chloris elegans HBK. Reno. 
Eatonia pennsylvanica. Montgomery, Cherokee. 
Poa sylvestris. Bourbon, Montgomery, Nemaha. 
Agropyron tenerum. Cheyenne. 
ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF KANSAS. 
By B. B. SmytuH, Topeka. Read (by title) before the Academy January 2, 1897. 
The past two years have been a very fruitful period in botanical work. More 
collectors than usual have been at work in Kansas, and altogether it has been a 
period of unusual activity. The results of the work of the government collector, 
Mr. Chas. H. Thompson, through the southern and southwestern parts of the 
state in 1893, have been worked up by Prof. A. S. Hitchcock, and published by 
the Division of Botany at Washington, D. C., as a contribution from the United 
States National Herbarium. 
Professor Hitchcock has explored pretty thoroughly the southeastern, south- 
ern, and, with his assistants, the southwestern parts of the state, and added 
many new plants to the herbarium of the Agricultural College. 
The writer has taken a second trip along the line of the Arkansas river from 
Hutchinson to Coolidge, at the west line of the state, and returned through 
Wichita, Scott, Ness, Barton, McPherson and Marion counties. The use of a 
bicycle and the usually splendid condition of the roads in the western parts of the 
state greatly facilitated visiting remote places. Much of interest and value was 
collected and noted on the trip. A trip into Allen, Anderson and Woodson 
counties was also taken, and some important collections made. Add to this that 
some of the material collected on previous trips into the southwestern, western 
and northwestern parts of the state has been worked up; though there still re- 
mains some work to be done in determining plants of recent and former collec- 
tions. 
Mr. Elam Bartholomew, of Rockport, Rooks county, has worked incessantly 
among the parasitic fungi, and has not only discovered many plants new to the 
state, but has discovered many that are new to science. A part of the results of 
his work is here given. 
Mr. J. A. Rich, of Ellis, has collected pretty thoroughly the plants of Trego 
county and has made some collections in Gove. Nearly 400 specimens have been 
sent down by him to the state herbarium from Trego county and 26 from Gove 
county. Among all these are several that have been hitherto unreported, and 
most of these are given in the following list, though a few yet remain to be de- 
termined. 
Numerous plants have been sent in from nearly all parts of the state by people 
who were unfamiliar with them. Nearly all such have proved to be familiar or 
well-known plants, and the names returned to the senders. In case the plants 
