1892. ] The Flora of Chicago and Vicinity. 249 
NATIVE PLANTS.—There are a few plants of a different 
character, native to the region, which are worthy of mention. 
1. Desmodium Illinoense Gray.—Found last year at Auburn 
Park within the limits of the city. It has been known hith- 
erto as aplant of western Illinois and westward. From the 
locality where it grew it was evidently indigenous, and may 
occur elsewhere in this vicinity, as it is easily overlooked from 
its close resemblance to one or two other species of this trou- 
blesome genus. ! 
2. Rosa setigera Michx.—In the summer of 1890 I came 
across a few bushes, or clumps of bushes, of this rose at Willow 
Springs, in the southwestern part of Cook county, Ill. They 
were on the wooded hills which rise abruptly on the east side 
of the Desplaines river. They grew on the borders of rather 
Py Desplaines, a couple of miles below. In a narrow strip 
& Woods between the river and Flag Creek, which enters it 
at this point, they occur plentifully, clambering over shrubs 
cre small trees. These stations seemed to have elud- 
evi 
c.. the Illinois river, or close by, the Desplaines being 
ti ary, and Morgan Park being situated on the dividing 
in . “ge it and Lake Michigan. The prairie rose 1s rare 
gan 2 ‘gan, though one of its common names is the Michi- 
se, but is considered indigenous there. 
* Report — 
Flora (1892) as found at Ann Arbor, Mich., in Beal and Wheeler's Michigan 
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