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the vegetation was very rank. We saw a beautiful mallow (Hibiscus 

 militaris) growing wild in huge clumps, as shown in figure 74. It 

 looked like a wild rose of Sharon and is entirely worthy of cultivation. 

 One afternoon we went out to the Belmont mound to see what sort 

 of northern plants we might find, and while there took a look at the 

 first capitol of Wisconsin, built and used in 1836, when Wisconsin was 



Fig. 74. — Hibiscus militaris, Wisconsin's "Wild Rose of 

 Sharon," in the Grant river bottoms, near Potosi, Grant 

 Co., Wis. 



a territory. It is kept in repair by the Woman's Clubs of Wisconsin, 

 and is three and a half miles from Belmont. On the mound near there, 

 we found our northern flora and some interesting things besides. After 

 making our collections around there, we found we- had been collecting 



