Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 257]

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PHACELIA, mostly cultivated for ornament. congesta, cultivated ? from T e x a s . tanacetifolia, cultivated from California. bipinnatanda, native, Vasey; St. Clair county, Brendel. purshii, native, L a p h a m . viscida, cultivated from California. ELLISIA. nycteloa, L., common. WHITLAVIA, annual. grandiflora, cultivated for o r n a m e n t from California. HYDROLEA, perennial. • affinis, native, (on Ohio river) Vasey. P O L E M O N I A C E , E - - P O L E M O N I U M FAMILY. PHLOX. drummondii, cultivated for o r n a m e n t from Texas, and p a r e n t of t h e a n n u a l phloxes of the gardens paniculata v.ar acuminata, native, L a p h a m ; perennial. maculata, Wild Sweet William, native, Vasey; Woodford and St. Clair counties, Brendel; Champaign c o u n t y . glaberrima, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaign county, Macauley. pilosa, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaign county, Macauley. stellaria, Gray; Grand Tower, Jackson county. reptans, native, Vasey; Brendel. divaricata, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock, Champaign c o u n t y . v a r . laphamii, Champaign county, Macauley. bifida, native,* L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock. GLLIA, cultivated for ornament,, biennial. coronopifolia, or ipomopsis, Cypress. androsacea, or Letosiphon androsaceus, from California, a n n u a l . tricolor, annual, from California. capitata, from California and Oregon. POL.EMONIUM, Greek Valerian, Jacob's Ladder. reptans, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaign county, Macauley; cultivated . ca?ruleum, cultivated for o r n a m e n t from E u r o p e , also n a t i v e . capitata, cultivated from Oregon. COB2EA, perennial, climber from Mexico. scandens, cultivated as a house plant.

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QXJAMOCLJJ, a n n u a l s . . . vulgaris, Cypress Fine, cultivated from Mexico for o r n a m e n t . coccinea, naturalized from tropical America or India, Champaign county, Macauley. IPOMCEA, Morning Glory. purperea, Common Morning Glory, adventive from tropical America, V a s e y ; Champaign county, Macauley, annual. nil, Smaller Morning Glory, adventive from tropical America, L a p h a m ; Champaign county, Macauley, annual. learii, cultivated from South America, perennial. bona-nox or Calonyction speciosum, cultivated for o r n a m e n t . b a t a t u s , Sweet Potato, cultivated from the East Indie A, perennial. The production of this vegetable in Illinois and t h e United States has been as follows: Year. 1850 1860 1870 Production. Sweet Potatoes, bushels , United States. 38,268,148 42,095,026 21,109,824 Illinois. 157,432 306,154 322,641

Union c u n t y grew 65,052 bushels of t h e amount credited to t h e whole s t a t e for 1870; Williamson, J a c k s o n and Madison counties come n e x t . p a n d u r a t a , Wild Potato Vine, or Man of the Earth, native, L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaign county, Macauley, perennial. lacunosa, n a t i v e ; L a p h a m . CONVOLVULUS, Bindweed. tricolor, cultivated from Europe for ornament, a n n u a l . CALYSTEGIA, Bracted Bindweed. sepium, Hedge Bindweed, n a t i v e . L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaign county, Macauley. spithamaea, n a t i v e ; L a p h a m ; Cook county, Babcock; Champaign county, Macauley.