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about Nashville, Tennessee, also in Giles County, Virginia, and 

 on the summit of Stone A-Iountain, Georgia, where it has been 

 repeatedly collected. But its main range seems to lie to the west- 

 ward of the species, from JNIissouri (Potosi) to Kansas (Cherokee 

 County) and southward into Texas. 



EUPATORIUM AROMATICUM IN OHIO. 



Robert F. Griggs. 



So far as the writer is aware Eupatorium aromaticum L. has 

 never been suspected of being a member of the Ohio Flora. Great, 

 therefore, was the writer's joy in finding it growing abundantly 

 along the roadside in the valley of Queer Creek about three 

 miles east of South Bloomingville, Hocking County, September 7, 

 1910. The plants were at once recognized as entirely distinct 

 from the common E. ageratoides with which the species some- 

 times intergrades and on comparison with herbarium specimens 

 proved to be perfectly typical representatives of E. aromaticum. 



The general distribution of the species as given by the manuals, 

 Britton and Gray, is "Copses, etc., Massachusetts to Florida near 

 the coast." Reference to herbarium specimens and local floras 

 shows however, a considerably wider range. In the Gray her- 

 barium at Harvard are specimens from Massachusetts, Rhode 

 Island, District of Columbia, Virginia, (Norfolk Co. on the coast 

 and Bedford and Craig Counties in the mountains). North and 

 South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana, 

 (Jacksonville). In addition it is reported from the Tullahoma 

 fiats near Knoxville, Tenn., by Gattinger and from Jackson 

 County in southern Illinois by Patterson and from the vicinity of 

 Pittsburg by Shafer, though in this case the reference is unsup- 

 ported by a herbarium specimen. Even with these additions the 

 present station is about two hundred miles from the edge of its 

 range as previously known. Whether or not it occurs generally 

 over the area indicated can not be detennined from the data at 

 hand but in any case the range should be revised to include the 

 localities given above. 



Date of Publication March 10, 1911. 



