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[[underline]]Kansas[[/underline]]

[[underline]]July 6[[/underline]]. Reached Kansas City at 8 A.M. [[strikethrough]]on[[/strikethrough]] Mo. Pac. & left at 9:45 am Santa Fe for Pueblo. The Kaw River is over its banks & full of floating drift, lots of fields flooded All streams & ponds full. Country green & rich but crops show effects of too much water.

No trace of Lower Sonoran plants noticed near Kansas City or beyond. Westward the woods soon retreat to narrow fringes of low trees along streams mostly box elder, cottonwood, elm, low oaks ^[[ash]] & altis. Near Burlingdame we heard a bluejay & west of Osage City heard 2 meadowlark songs that from the train seemed to be negleta. 

West of Osage City the country becomes more plains, & is characterized by lots of plains species of plants, Petalostenom violace, Amorpha canescens, Psoralea (argophylla?), [[aesebpies?]] Merolix etc.

West of Emporia we follow up the Cottonwood River is out over