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wide-spread species, however, being plentiful in Nebraska, Iowa 
and Illinois, and, doubtless, in other localities; more or less 
shaiteat all over the west and northwest, extending east also to 
Connecticut. The species may be easily known by its small 
contracted panicle and guger seeds, ee especially by its strong 
odor when bruised. It is inclined to grow in panes or stools, 
and where most abundant is meant occupies the grou 
The relative proportion of species as they occur in the locali- 
ties mentioned poew will pretty fairly represent the Graminea 
igh } 
furcatus, 6 per cent; Andropogon scopari ius, 30 per cent; 
Sorghum nutans, 45 per cent; Bouteloua curtipendula, 10 per 
cent; Panicum virgatum, 8 per cent; Panicum dichotomum, 
1 per cent. 
Same area in Anderson county; a thin soil, high prairie:— 
Andropogon scoparius, 50 per cent; Andropogon deeaine 
per cent; Panicum pauciflorum, 1 per cen 
determine the character of the vegetation, the soils not A 
ground from the high prairi aes con- 
sists in ne ie te lined out and et 
abundantly by a very notable Helianthus, (sunflower,) H. orgyalis, 
a species peculiar to ee region of the country and southward. 
of Kansas, and p uliar to those regions, is Amphiachyris dra- 
cunculoides. is an annual, resembling Solidago linifolia, 
but bearing an mes pe of showy, yellow flowers in Septem- 
ber. It has spread from its native —— rocky soils— 
per cent; Sorghum nutans, 40 per — oeleria cristata, 7 _ 
These stations are all on the prairie, at no local conditions 
ese rocky lands ft the botanist chest treasures. 
Another very Een ome of the saviors and middle portions 
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