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happened to be of economic interest, descriptions and remarks concerning such 
have been published in the Kansas Farmer. 
The following list contains the names of plants published for the first time in 
this Flora of Kansas or Additions; and in all cases where first publication was 
made outside the state, the place of such publication is given. Where no such 
credit is given, this is first publication. 
FLOWERING PLANTs. 
—Argemone alba Lestiboudois. (Hitchcock, in Bull. Kan. Exp. Sta., 
“Kansas Weeds,’’ No. 2.) This has been in the State herbarium for a long 
time, labeled ‘“‘Argemone platyceras L. & O.’’ Botanists seem disposed to 
recognize two species of Argemone in this state; but the differences are differ- 
ences of degree, not of kind. The forms are too near alike to be considered as 
separate species, or even strongly marked sub-species. The elder name is A. 
alba; the name A. platyceras must fall. 
1. Erysimum inconspicuum MacMillan. (Metasp. Minn. Val., 1892, p. 268.) 
Thomas county; frequent. In State herbarium. 
2. Sophia incisa Greene. (Pittonia, 1896, p. 95.) ‘‘Kansas.’’ Britton, in 
Illust. Flora Northern U.S. and Can., II, 145. This does not appear to agree 
with the plant, which is very common in Kansas, and heretofore listed under the 
name of Sisymbrium canescens. 
3. Cristatella erosa Nutt. Hamilton county; rather common in the sand-hills 
(Hitchcock). Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb., IIT, 541 (1896). 
4. Arenaria fendleri Gray. Hamilton and Wichita counties; frequent in 
rocks. Also sent in from Trego county by J. A. Rich. (No. 87.) 
5. Arenaria hookeri Nutt. Trego county; in State herbarium, sent in by J. A. 
Rich. (No. 25.) Also collected by the writer in Norton, Decatur, Sherman, 
Wichita, Hamilton, and Finney counties. 
6. Arenaria texana Britton. Norton county; frequent. In State herbarium. 
Determined by Dr. B. L. Robinson, in Proc. Amer. Acad., 1894, p. 302. 
7. Cerastium brachypodum Robinson. Shawnee county; occasional. In 
state herbarium. 
8. Loeflingia texana Hook. Wichita county; in State herbarium. 
9. Astragalus kentrophyta Gray. Wichita county; in State herbarium. 
— Astragalus filifolius (Gray). Hamilton county; in State herbarium. Here- 
tofore listed under name of A. pictus filifolius Gray. 
10. Astragalus scobinatulus Sheldon. Hamilton county ; abundant ( Hitch- 
cock). Cont. U.S. Nat. Herb., III, 543 (1896). 
11. Desmodium longifolium Nutt. Sedgwick county (Carleton ). 
12. Lespedeza nuttallii Darl. Kansas (N. L. Britton). Trans. N. Y. Acad. 
Sci., XII, 1893, p. 61. 
13. Lespedeza violacea Pers. Kansas (N. L. Britton). L.c., p. 62. 
14. Orophaca cespitosa Britton. Kansas(E. P.Sheldon). Bull. Geol. Surv. 
Minn., IX, 117, (1894,) under name of Astragalus gilviflorus. 
15. Petalostemon macrostachyus Torr. Grant county ; on sandy knolls along 
south fork of Cimarron; rare (Hitchcock). Cont. U.S. Nat. Herb., III, 543, 
(1896 ). 
16. Petalostemon decumbens Nutt. Chalk hills of Meade and Pratt coun- 
ties. In State herbarium. Closely related to P. oligophyllus. 
17. Petalostemon oligophyllus Torr. Phillipsburg; abundant in old brick- 
yard and other abandoned diggings. In State herbarium. Heretofore listed 
under name of P. gracilis, it being considered by Doctor Torrey a variety of that 
species; but now regarded by A. A. Heller as a distinct species. Some of its 
