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forms grade close to P. candidus; but the latter species, which is common 
throughout the state, may be readily distinguished by its thinner leaflets, more 
compact inflorescence, fewer, longer, and more cylindrical spikes (commonly only 
one ), more acuminate bracts, and more solitary and strictly upright habit. 
18. Psoralea micrantha Gray. Riley county (Kellerman). Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Club, 1894, p. 94. 
— Agrimonia hirsuta Bicknell. (Bull. Torr. Club, 1896, p. 511; pl. 282, fig. 1.) 
Shawnee county; frequent. This is the species that is listed in Smyth’s Check- 
list of the Plants of Kansas as ‘‘ forma intermedia.”’ 
19. Agrimonia mollis Britton. (Bull. Torr. Club, 1892, p. 221; 1896, p. 515; 
pl. 282, fig. 3, Bicknell.) Shawnee county; common enough. In State her- 
barium. : 
— Amelanchier spicata Dec. Low Juneberry. Introduced into Kansas by 
nurserymen, and having a slight tendency to run wild. 
20. Cerasus besseyi ( Bailey). Western sand cherry. Phillips county; fré- 
quent in dry hills. In State herbarium. Too near Cerasus pumila to be con- 
sidered a separate species. 
21. Cercocarpus parviflorus H. & A. Western Kansas. N. L. Britton, in 
Illust. Flora, II, 223. 
— Fragaria americana Britton. (Bull. Torr. Club, XIX, 222.) This is the 
wild strawberry of our fields and woods instead of /. vesca, as heretofore re- 
ported. There is really very little difference, hardly enough upon which to erect 
a new species: butif there is any difference the patriotic American will recognize 
it for the sake of the name. 
22. Potentilla recta L. Topeka; one or two bunches introduced from the 
east found in the state yard before improvement. Listed heretofore as P. 
gracilis. 
23. Prunus watsoni Sargent. Sand plum. Central and western Kansas. 
First collected by Dr. Louis Watson, of Ellis. 
24. Adelia acuminata Mx. Labette county. Reported by Dr. W. S. Newlon. 
25. Epilobium lineare Muh]. Anderson county; in a marshy place; not fre- 
quent. In State herbarium. 
26. CXnothera fendleri Gray. Sherman county; in bluffs; not frequent. In 
State herbarium. 
27. Mentzelia multiflora Gray. Hamilton county; frequent in cultivated 
lands and sedimentary deposits in the low land (Hitchcock). Cont. U.S. Nat. 
Herb., IIT, 545 (1896). 
28. Sanicula gregaria Bicknell. Fort Riley (E. E. Gayle). Bull. Torr. Club, 
1895, p. 354. 
29. Grindelia grandiflora Hook. Trego county; sent in by J. A. Rich. (No. 
317.) This differs so decidedly from G. sqguarrosa that it is entitled to rank as 
aspecies. In G. sqguarrosa the leaves are spatulate to linear-oblong or obovate, 
with crenulate-denticulate to spinulosely serrulate teeth; usually slightly gummy 
and covered with minute translucent dots; the scales of the involucre are attenu- 
ate and recurved or squarrose and very gummy and sticky; the leaves near the 
heads are reduced, and there are no bracts immediately under the heads. In 
G. grandiflora the leaves are elliptical to ovate, broadest in the lower half, not 
dotted or gummy, and having spinosely-dentate teeth, like those of the American 
holly, or softly aristate, almost ciliate, serrate teeth; margin of leaves and teeth 
pale; the scales of the involucre are acuminate, appressed, and only slightly 
gummy; and each head is subtended by a leafy bract, almost laciniate, the ser- 
rations are so deep. 
