In your Gardeners' Monthly for October, Mr. Thomas Bassler speaks of the pretty wild flowers of Kansas, and I fully endorse his opinion that many of them are well worthy of cultivation. Never having collected plants in that State I judge its flora will be much like that of other Western States. He mentions the names of only three plants: two of them, CEnothera Missouriensis and speciosa. The last I have never seen, but CEnothera caespitosa I have found in great abundance in the valley of the Platte. I hope Mr. Bassler will do all in his power to create a taste for this delightful study by pointing out the localities where such things may be found. Having several times looked over the flora of the Western States, I have always made additional discoveries of plants which I had missed in my former journeys.

Two years ago I visited Long Lake, Dakota, and there found Heliotropium curasaviscum-This is the most beautiful of the Heliotropes - pure white with lemon eye, and delightful fragrance. Long Lake is seven miles from Woonsocket and is a long shallow lake. Most of the water evaporated during the summer heats, leaving a large strip around its margin highly impregnated with the washings and salts of the burned prairies, on which the Heliotrope grows with great luxuriance, sometimes many acres in one patch. What seemed curious to me was the fact that nothing else grows on it but Ammannia latifolia, and that sparingly. If Mr. Bassler will visit this bed of Heliotrope I think it would delight him as much as it did me and he will find in his journey to the Lake many interesting plants, such as Kuhnia eupatorioides, Echinacea angustifolia, Aplopappus spinulosus, Lepachys columnaris, Lygodesmia juncea, Grin-delia squarrosa, Malvastrum coccineum, Oxytropis Lamberti, Cleome integrifolia, Schrankia uncinata, Dalea alopecurioides and many others.

I hope this catalogue of plants will not be tedious.

Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 15,1886.