32 E. Hall on the Flora of Eastern Kansas. 
to the road sides and into the fields of the farmers, where it has 
already become a formidable weed. Imagine a field of flax in 
full bloom, and you have a picture of many fields of the Kansas 
farmers, only differing in appearance by the flowers being yellow 
instead of blue. It has different loca names, such as Butter- 
weed, Tumble-weed, etc. A shopkeeper in Humboldt, to whom 
I applied for information, rather “ages tuously replied, “ Curl- 
ous any body didn’t know tumble weed.” Let not our readers 
imagine that the plant is iiinieidvd albus, or Cycloloma platy- 
phyla, that so often tumble over the fences and hedges in Ih- 
nois in the autumn months. But the Kansas plant does tumble 
some, too. When not growing too thickly, it forms a rather 
bushy, round head. 
Ste sarap the most notable plant on oo ae at this 
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plain below with a canopy of blue. Another species of Sage 
(Salvia trichostemoides) is common also. This is more of a weed 
in 2 Siar and even threatens to become troublesome to the 
agriculturist. 
The aeamsl ip tae flora is largely represented with the 
Helianthi. Helianthus lenticularis, a showy species, much re- 
sembling the common ceric sun- ‘flower, i is too abundant, being 
more or less troublesome as a weed to the farmer. Helianthus 
petiolaris, another annual species, is less common. TH. grosse- 
serratus, H. Maximiliant on most rich soils. H. rigidus every- 
where abounds, and H. mollis occurs in all the southern por- 
tions in immense quantity, but entirely disappears northward. 
Only Silphium laciniatum was seen. The other ootabie pene 
ies of “rosin weed,” Silphium terebinthinaceum does not 
ely occur. These plants I as are looked after by land 
unters as indications of a good I find the one species 
here of all heights, from a foot to six a ee the general average 
is about three feet this wet season, which i is mucl h below the or- 
dinary stature of the rel as seen on the ies of [linois. 
nol ene spec’ Se The ct nis Ding that 
gives so much ee oe and notability to the bottom lands and 
_ Wet prairies of Illinois in the autumn months, is here represented 
| ied species, meas gas much: fewer 
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