1892. ] The Flora of Chicago and Vicinity. 247. 
grows spontaneously inthe grass. The farm where it occurs 
is an old one for the locality, being cleared in early days in 
the pine woods, and is still encircled with timber. It is not 
reported elsewhere in the vicinity of Chicago. 
4. Helianthus annuus L..—This is not the cultivated plant 
escaped from gardens, but one introduced from the plains. 
It is well established in the western part of the city, near 
Brighton Park and along the C., B. & Q. R. R. The loca- 
tions reveal how it has been brought here, as it is seen most 
abundantly where the refuse from stock trains has been 
thrown out of the cars along the embankments, or piled in 
the fields. It has spread from such places into the neighbor- 
ing fields, and is sharing the ground with H. grosse-serratus, 
the most common indigenous helianthus in such situations. 
The heads of flowers are quite variable in size, the disks an 
inch or two in diameter, and are mostly larger than any of 
our wild sunflowers, and with a different aspect. 
olanum rostratum Dunal.—I came across this first in 
Gaz., xin, 323. The same year it was found at South Chi- 
_ ago, as mentioned by Higley and Raddin. In 1890 I found 
tat Dune Park, Porter co., Ind., along the L. S. & M. 2 
and the statement added, ‘“pretty common west.” It is not 
Ey ined in Babcock’s ‘‘ Flora of Chicago and Vicinity, pub- 
seein the Lens, the last part of which was issued in De- 
wood in 1875. It is not given in Patterson's ‘‘ Plants of Illi- 
(1876), nor in the ‘‘Catalogue of Plants of Indiana (Bor. 
“2, 1881), nor in Wheeler and Smith’s Michigan catalogue 
