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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878
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229 militaris—native, L a p h a m ; Champaign county. trionum, Bladder Ketmia or Flower of an hour—adventive from esculentus, Okra or Gumbo—annual. Cultivated for soups. GOSSYPIUM, Cotton. herbaceum, common cotton—formerly considerably cultivated census gave 1,482 bales as the Illinois product, and in 1870, 14 of our southern counties. More t h a n half of this was Williamson. Europe, V a s e y ; a n n u a l . in Illinois. In 1860 t h e 465 bales, produced in grown in J a c k s o n and T I L I A C E ^ E — L I N D E N FAMILY. TILIA, Linden, Lime tree, Bass-wood. Americana, American Linden, or common Bass-wood. This t r e e is mentioned as growing in sixteen counties described in the geological report, and is probably as Dr. V a s e y ' s m a p indicates, fonnd in about every county in the s t a t e . But it is a n o r t h e r n r a t h e r t h a n a southern tree, and seems to affect the cooler grounds in the south p a r t of the s t a t e . The largest specimen measured by Prof. Swallow was in Howard county. Mo.: circumference, 23 feet: height, 110 feet. The t r e e is valuable for shade, for its honey-bearing flowers, its soft, strong, inner bark, and to a certain extent, for its lumber. heterophylla, Vent—Fulton county, Wolf; Wabash, Sehenck. var. pubescens is noted by Dr. Vasey as occurring in Illinois. europaea, European linden—cultivated for ornament, from E u r o p e . Mr. Bryant states that " i t does not appear to thrive in the soil of our Illinois p r a i r i e s . " LINAGES—FLAX FAMILY. LINUM, Flax. virginianum—native, Lapham; Cook county, Babcock. sulcatum—native, Lapham: Cook county, Babcock; Champaign county, Macauley. usitatissimum, common flax—cultivated from Old World, and r u n n i n g wild in fields, Vasey; Cook county, Babcock. ^ P O U N D S LINT. BUSHELS SEED. United States. Illinois. United States. 1850 7,709,676 160,063 562,312 1860 4,720,145 48,235 566,867 1870 27,133,034 2,204,606 1,730,444 perenne—cultivated from Europe, for ornament, striatum, Walt—Washington county, Vasey. grandiflorum—cultivated as an annual, from North Africa. Illinois. 10,787 8,670 280,043 G E R A N I A C E / E — G E R A N I U M FAMILY. OXALIS, Wood-Sorrel, siricta, yellow wood-sorrel—native. Laphan, Cook county, Babcock, Champaign. violacea—native. Lapham, Cook county, Babcock, Champaign county. LIMN ANT HES—Annual. douglasii—cultivated for ornament from California. FLCERKEA, False Mermaid—Annual. proserpinacoides—native, Vasey; Peoria county, Brendel. GERANIUM, Cranes-bill. maculatum. Native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaign county. carolianum. Native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock. PELARGONIUM. The geranium, so-called, of the house and s u m m e r garden c u l t u r e . Most of t h e n u m e r o u s species, natives of Cape of Good Hope. TROPiEOLUM, Many species tropaeolum, n a s t u r t i u m or Indian cress, cultivated from South America for ornament and t h e pickled fruits. ma jus. minus. tuberosum. peregrinum, Canai^y Bird Flower. IMPATIENS, Touch-me-not, Jewel Weed Balsam—annuals. pallida. fulva. balsamina, Garden Balsam—from India. RUTACE^E—RUE FAMILY. RUT A, Bue. Perennial. graveolens—Common Bue. Cultivated from t h e Old World. DICTAMNUS, Fraxinella. fraxinella—Cultivated from southern Europe for o r n a m e n t .
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