HO The Rocky Mountain Locust. 



and a number of plants new to the country are known to 

 have been introduced into France by the Germans during 

 the late Franco-Prussian war. So the locust incursions and 

 devastations m Kansas and Missouri were followed bv 

 some curious changes. These changes consisted mostly in 

 the great prevalence of plants that in ordinary seasons are 

 scarcely noticed. The Amarantus Blitum, already spoken 

 ol, spread at an unprecedented rate, and grew in great 

 luxuriance. Immediately after the locusts left, the common 



[ Fig. 17.1 



Gemot Heviop White-lined Moekieg Sphikx. 



purslane started everywhere and usurped the place of 

 many other species. The common Nettle (Solanum Caro- 

 hnense), and the Sand burr (S. rostratum), spread in 1875 

 to an alarming degree, and the Poke weed (Phytolacca 

 decandra), was very abundant. All kinds of grasses grew 

 very luxuriantly during the summer, a fact due to the wet 

 and favorable weather; but some kinds* that are rare in 

 ordinary seasons, got the start and grew in great strength 

 and abundance. Among these none are more notable than 

 the sudden appearance very generally over the locust- 

 devastated region, of what is usually called a new grass. 



for hay m SangUlmle was Iuxuria *t enough to he cut 



