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P. fastigiata, Grev. Glen Cove, Montauk Point; July and 
August. 
Bostrychia rivularis , Harv. Flushing Bay, Whitestone. 
Dasya elegans, Ag. Common; July to November. 
Corallina officinalis, L. Common. 
Melobesia farinosa, Lamx. Glen Cove, Greenport. 
M. pustulata, Lamx. Flushing Bay, Rockaway. 
M. macrocarpa, Rosanoff. Orient, Canarsie, Quogue. 
M. Lenormandi, Aresch. Fort Hamilton College Point., 
* Those marked with an asterisk were found in fruit at the time specified. 
The Flora of Ross County, Ohio, 
COMPARED WITH THAT OF NEW ENGLAND. 
Read June 8th. 
W. E. SAFFORD. 
In Southern Ohio the first of the spring flowers is the “pep- 
per-and-salt”, or “harbinger of spring”, Erigenia bulbosa, Nutt., 
a tiny Umbelifer. I have found it as early as the last week in 
February, although it does not usually appear until a month later. 
It grows in shady woods, where it is usually found nestling be- 
tween the forking roots of beeches, associated with Jsopyrum bi- 
ternatum, T.and Gr. The latter is a beautiful little plant closely 
resembling Thalictrum anemonoides, but with fibrous instead of 
tuberous roots. In the region through which I botanized nearly 
every specimen of Thalictrum anemonoides had pink-tinted sepals. 
Of the two species of Hepatica which occur in Southern 
Ohio, Hepatica acutiloba, DC., is much more common. I have 
found many specimens which seem to be intermediate between 
the two species. Many other spring plants occur which are fa- 
miliar to New England botanists, such as: Diécentra Canadensis, 
DC., and D. Cucullaria, DC:; Dentaria laciniata, Muhl.; San- 
guinaria Canadensis, L., and Podophyllum peltatum, L. Ane- 
mone nemorosa, L.., does not occur. I have never found Dentaria 
diphylla, L.; but it has been recorded as growing in the vicinity 
of Cincinnati. 
Trillium grandiflorum, Salisb., is common. Associated with 
it are two Trilliums not found in New England: Trillium sessile, 
