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such specimens as really show what a plant is_ like. 
InLtinois. Royal A. Dixon and L. Cornelia Gage, Morgan 
Park Ridge (Chicago), 15 May, 1907; 5 specimens, all male, rather 
small and young. Mrs. Agnes Chase, ‘‘ Low prairie west of Harlem,” 
Cook Co., 17 May, 1900. V. H. Chase, “Sterile prairie near Wady 
Petra,’ Stark Co., 8 May, 1900. These two sheets by the collectors 
Chase, from northern Illinois exhibit both male and female plants, 
the latter unusually stout and low, the former uncommonly tall, 
and are farther from the norm of the species in this particular 
than are any others seen. 
Philip Price, Wilmette. “‘Sterile banks’; no date what- 
ever, not even the year; the specimens female, and typical for 
the West. 
Charles P. Johnson (Freeport). “Open clayey hillside, Sciota,”’ 
1 May, 1899. Specimens so stout and low, also so much whitened 
as to the leafy stolons, that one is loath to record them as belong- 
ing to the species. Also by Mr. Johnson, the same year “Sandy 
barren west of Ottawa,’’ 10 May; three specimens, all female, are 
as tall as the tallest of eastern plants, the involucre in all the 
examples—there are seven on the sheet—as much racemose as 
one ever sees them, and this is almost an exceptional phase of the 
western plant. 
F. E. McDonald (Peoria). ‘‘On gravelly dry knolls, Peoria,”’ 
9 May, 1901; sheet of 4 female and 3 male specimens, represent- 
ing the southern limit of the species for the Middle West, as far 
as my own herbarium and that of U. S. Museum have to show; 
but the plants are too far from typical. The scales of the involucre 
are too few and their white tips too much reduced, and the pappus- 
bristles in the male plant are not only more evidently thickened 
at tip, the tips are neither serrulate nor barbellate, but appear 
as if quite smooth under a hand lens of low power. There is ground 
for a suspicion that this Peoria plant may yet claim the rank 
of a species. 
While passing from Illinois to Wisconsin and Iowa I remark 
that our herbaria in Washington have nothing by which to prove 
the occurrence of A. neglecta in either Indiana or Ohio; but it 
must be found in the northern parts of both. 
Wisconsin. The oldest specimens of anything called A. 
neglecta which are now before me were collected by myself, at 
Albion, Dane Co., 12 May, 1862. The sheet contains two good 
