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Minnesota. — Northern Minnesota. was greatly sur- 
prised to find, some eight years ago, that it was even growing 
on the confines of civilization.” 1886. (L. H. Bailey.) 
St. Paul, E. J. Hill, 1889 (Arthur, Bulletin 52, Vol. V, 
Indiana Agric. Exp. Station, p 90). 
St. Anthony’s Park, 1888 (J. H. Schuette). 
Minneapolis, Minnesota (J. H. Sandberg, 1891) Ft. Snelling 
(Means). 
Missouri. * ‘Ht was found in St. Louis in 1878 by Mr. I. 
C. Martindale, and was seen by local collectors even earlier; a 
specimen of the plant in the herbarium of the Purdue University, 
collected by Mr. H. Eggert, is labeled ‘ waste places, St. Louis, 
July 18, 1877.’ Mr. G. W. Letterman said in 1886 that it had 
been ‘ thoroughly naturalized in St. Louis during the past eight 
years, and has now taken to the woods.’ In 1880 it was 
‘ extremely abundant (in St. Louis) in waste places, ’ according 
to Dr. Geo. Engelmann.” (Ind. Agl. Exp. Station Bull. 52, VoL 
V, p. 88.) Tracy, Catalogue of the Phaenogamous and Vas- 
cular Cryptogramous Plants of Missouri, 1886, p. 52.) 
Quite common in Kansas City, Mo,, 1889. (Pammel.) 
St. Louis. (Engelmann, July, 1875.) 
Jackson county. (Bush, 1890). 
Springfield. (Dewart, 1892). 
New Jersey. — Ballast and made land near Communipaw 
Perry, July, 1879. (Addison Brown). (Britton: A Preliminary 
Catalogue of the Flora of New Jersey, 1881, p. 56). 
New York. — “Abundant all through the state so far as I 
have seen.” (L. H. Bailey). Trumansburg Point, Cayuga 
Lake, gravelly field a few rods south of the landing, where it is 
abundant, 1886. (W. R. Dudley, The Cayuga Flora, Bull. Cor- 
nell University; Science, Vol. II, p. 55). Starkey, New York: 
(Comm. Torrey Botanical Club, Poggenburg, Britton, Sterns, 
Brown, Porter, Hollick, Preliminary Cat. of Anthophyta and 
Pteridophyta, growing spontaneously within one hundred miles 
of New York city, p. 31). Brooklyn: Ballast. (B. D. Halsted). 
East Buffalo: An adventive well established. (1882, David F. 
Day, Bull, of the Buffalo Soc. of Nat. Sciences, Vol. IV, No. 4, 
p. -261. The Plants of Buffalo and its Vicinity, 1883, p. 197). 
Elmira, Syracuse, Clyde, and rapidly spreading at Albany. 
(Charles H. Peck, letter to L. H. Dewey.) 
* Indiana Agricultural Exp. Station, Bull. 53, Vol. V, p. 88. 
