E. Hall on the Flora of Eastern Kansas. 33 
Lespedeza capitata, of the Pea family, is everywhere abundant 
on the prairies, and cut with the hay often forms too large a 
portion of tonnage for the interest of the buyer; which also must 
be said of Ziatris scariosa and LD. squarrosa; the former some- 
times equal to a fourth or fifth of the gross weight of a stack. 
Two other species, but less abundant, are represented in the 
State, LZ. punctate and L. pycnostachya. These noble plants em- 
purple the landscape on thousands of acres in August and Sep- 
tember. Gerardia asperifolia is abundant almost everywhere on 
the prairie, and contributes a good share to the weedy character . 
of the hay. Eryngiwm Leavenworthii in the extreme south is a 
ously marche 
abiding their time for the conditions of soil necessary to their 
ong in vain through all the Middle 
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