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of 1913 in the dry oak woods at Glencoe, 111., only a few rods 

 from the shore of Lake Michigan, the station at Casello being but 

 little farther from the shore. In 1906 I came upon some on the 

 wooded bank of Fish Creek, near Dillman, Wis., a short distance 

 north of Milwaukee. This station also was close by the lake. 

 The collections were all made in the month of June. No mention 

 is made of this species for Illinois in Patterson's Catalogue of the 

 plants of the state published in 1876. For Indiana it is given in 

 Stanley Coulter's Catalogue (1901) for Tippecanoe county, about 

 100 miles south of Lake Michigan, and for Steuben county at 

 the northeast corner of the state. 



Agropyron Richardsonii Schrad. In 1881 specimens of an 

 Agropyron were obtained in open sandy woods by Lake George, 

 near Whitin, Ind. They were referred at the time to A . violaceum 

 Lange, and listed under that name in Higley & Raddin's Flora of 

 Cook County, Illinois and part of Lake County, Indiana, 

 Having found the true A. violaceum at Ha! Ha! Bay, Quebec, 

 in 1888, it became evident that the Indiana plant was something 

 different. But what to call it was not at once apparent. In 

 1902 while collecting plants at Dune Park in company with 

 Mrs. Agnes Chase we came upon an Agropyron with rather 

 prominent awns growing in somewhat open woods of sand hills. 

 On comparison with the descriptions in Britton's Manual and 

 in Scribner's American Grasses, the Dune Park grass was 

 decided to be ^ . Richardsonii. This also covered the case of the 

 Whiting plant. From all indications in both of these stations 

 the evidence was that they were not introduced, but indigenous 

 plants. The station near Whiting was long since destroyed, like 

 many another of our interesting or rare plants, by the encroach- 

 ments of industrial works. 



Agropyron Smithii Rydb. Patches of this were found in 1910 

 in a deep cut of the Rock Island railroad in the morain hills west 

 of Mokena, 111. It was evidently of comparatively recent intro- 

 duction since up to 1902, while making botanical investigations, 

 I had frequently been in the locality, and occasionally for about 

 four years afterwards, and had not seen it. The dense patches 

 were made very conspicuous by their glaucous green color. 



