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diate vicinity of Hallock. These plants were the ordinary types of the 
prairie and woodland of that region. One plant, however, Plantago 
ertopoda, is worthy of note as being a salt lover; it was collected 15 
miles southeast of Hallock on sandy alkali soil. I afterwards found 
this plant growing sparsely six miles east of Warren. 
As a result of my observations I draw the following conclusions: 
The soil of the entire valley is alkaline. The alkalinity is strongly 
marked in small localities only, which are popularly called ‘ alkali 
spots.” In Kittson and Marshall counties there are a few similar 
‘¢ salt spots,” natural and artificial. 
There are few halophytes in the valley; I found but two which I 
considered purely halophytic, these are B. 2680 Sadliécornia, growing 
in a coulee which had formerly drained a salt well at Northcote; and 
B. 2789 Plantago, growing in somewhat elevated sandy soil near 
Warren. There are also four chenopods, B. 2701, B. 2702, B. 2787, 
and B. 2576, which are semi-halophytic in character. These grow 
quite generally in many places in the valley, but are most numerous 
and luxuriant on the beaches of alkali lakes and ponds and in the 
vicinity of alkali spots. 
A more thorough study of the region visited will doubtless add to 
the list of halophytes of the State and certainly extend the range of 
those already noted. 
The principal object of Professor MacMillan, in his visit to 
the valley, was to secure a series of characteristic photographs 
of vegetation and portraits of plants to illustrate the flora of the 
region. There are presented herewith some views selected by 
him and made under his direction by Mr. C. J. Hibbard, Pho- 
tographer of the Survey. They will serve to give an idea of the 
vegetation-sheet in the district covered by the list and will indi- 
cate some details of ecological distribution as suggested in the 
descriptions of the plates written by Professor MacMillan. 
LIST OF SPECIES. 
SPARGANIACEZ. 
Sparganium eurycarpum EncEeLm. in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 
2vASOn, EOSO. 
Coll.: MacMillan & Skinner 131, Maple lake; 398, 
Holmes. 
Sparganium simplex Huns. Fl. Angl. Ed. 2, gor. 1788. 
Coll.: Ballard 2581, Humboldt. 
