Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 247]

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SILPHIUM, Rosin Plant, perennial. laciniatum, Rosin Weed, or Compass Plant, native, Lapham. Cook county, Babcock; Champaig-n county, Macauley. trifoliatum, L. Cook county, Hill. terebinthinaceum, Prairie Cock, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaign county. integrifolium, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaig-n county. v a r . la>ve; McLean county, Hill p e r f o r a t u m , Cup Plant, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaign county. DAHLIA, perennial. varabilis, cultivated t o r ornament from Mexico. I n great variety. PARTHENIUM. integrifolium, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaig-n county IVA, Marsh Elder, hi^h water s h r u b . ciliata, native, L a p h a m . ECLIPTA. procumbens, native, L a p h a m . COREOPSIS, Tickseed, many ornamental. tinetoria, cultivated from A r k a n s a s , •drummondii, cultivated from Texas. coronata, cultivated from Texas. lanceolata, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock. Cultivated. aurieulata, native, Lapham. Cultivated. senifolia, native, Lapham. palmata, native, Lapham; Cook county, Babcock. tripteris, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock. aristosa, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; St. Clair county. var. mutica, Gray, Low g r o u n d s ; not common. trichosperma, Tickseed, Sunflower, native, Lapham; Cook county, Babcock. discoidea, native, L a p h a m ; Kane county, Babcock. BIDENS, Bur Marigold, Beggar Ticks. frondosa, Common Beggar Ticks, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock. Champaign county. Coarse weed cernua, C. Peoria, Henderson and Champaign counties, northward. connata, Swamp Beggar Ticks, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaig-n county. chiysanthemoides, Larger Bur Marigold, native; Cook county, Babcock. Champaign county. beckii, Water Marigold, native, Lapham. bipinnata, Spanish Needles, native, L a p h a m . All t h e species here e n u m e r a t e d are very worthless and particularly disagreeable weeds, on account of barbed awns of the fruit, which cause it to adhere in great n u m b e r s to the clothing. —Darlington. A supposed hybrid between a Corypsis and Bidens, with t h e a p p e a r a n c e of the former and the barbed awns of the latter, is very abundant in Champaign county. HYMENOPAPPtTS. scabiosus, L. Her. , Mason county, Mead, Hall. LEPTOPODA. braohypoda, T. and G., Hancock county, Mead and southward. ACTI NOME R1S, Tall Perennials. squarrosa, native, L a p h a m . helianthoides, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock. KRIGIA, Dwarf Dandelion. virginica, Wild, Pulton county, Wolf; Mason, Brendel Menard, Hall. VERBESINA, Crown Beard, perennial herbs. siegesbeckia, native, Lapham. virginica, native, Lapham. XIMTNESIA, ornamental annual. eucelioides, cultivated from T e x a s and Mexico, HELIANTHIJS, Sunflower, mostly perennial. a n n u u s , Common Sunflower, cultivated from tropical America. argophyllus, cultivated from Texas for its heavy, white foliage, a n n u a l . angustifolius, native, L a p h a m . astrorubens, native, Lapham rigid us, native, L a p h a m ; Champaign county. lactitiorus, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock. oecidentalis, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock. mollis, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Champaign county. microcephalus, native, Lapham. giganteus, native, Cook county, Babcock. divaricatus, L., n e a r Chicago, Babcock; Hancock, Mead; Champaign, Burrill; Wabash, Schneck. doronicoides, L a m . b a n k of streams, common, P a t t e r s o n ; Champaign county. grosseserratus, native, Lapham; Cook county, Babcock; Champaign c o u n t y . ' tomentosus, native, Lapham. strumosus, n a t i v e . L a p h a m . hirsutus, native, Lapham. tracheliifolius, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock. decapaetlus, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock. tuberosus, Jerusalem Artichoke, cultivated % and escaped into fence rows. Gray r e -