378 The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. Ill, No. 4, 



those of the cabbage butterfly and the canker worm moth for ex- 

 ample, while entomologists will be likely to puzzle over the pho- 

 tograph from life of a " Woodboriug beetle at work in yellow 

 pine board." H. O. 



MEETING OF THE BIOLOGICAL CLUB. 



Orton Hall, January 12, 1903. 



The club was called to order by the president, Mr. Morse. 

 The paper of the evening was given by Dr. Kellerman, who 

 spoke upon his last summer's trip to West Virginia. He pointed 

 out our interest in all the floras near our own. But that of 

 West Virginia is especially interesting because so closely allied to 

 that of Southeastern Ohio. The flora of the State has been in the 

 main neglected. Dr. Millspaugh and Mr. Nuttall have done 

 practically all the work that has been published, but their lists 

 include only 1366 embrj^ophytes. The portion of the State along 

 the Ohio River has a flora very much the same as that of the 

 river counties in this State ; but higher up along the Gauley 

 River the flora is different and very interesting. He exhibited 

 specimens of a number of the most interesting plants. He then 

 spoke of his work on the Greenbrier River and the differences of 

 the flora there from that of the Gauley. He spoke of the deso- 

 lating effect of the destructive lumbering in the region, especially 

 that now being perpetrated on the Cheat Mountain. 



Under personal observation Mr. Sweze}- reported strawberries 

 blossoming during Christmas week in Illinois, and that a few 

 berries ripened as late as Thanksgiving day. 



Mr. Jennings reported Epilobium adenocauluvi from West 

 Virginia, which is considerably out of its range. He reported 

 Paspalum pubescens from Sandusky. 



Mr. J. G. Sanders spoke of an abnormal Podosphaera described 

 by him in the current number of the Journal of Mycology. 



Dr. Kellerman spoke of an abnormal beet six feet tall which 

 flowered the first 3'ear. He showed pictures of an abnormal 

 buckeye with very peculiar almost pinnate leaves. He spoke of 

 three new species named for himself b}- a German botanist, to be 

 described in the Journal of Mj'cology. He reported a large 

 number of successful experiments in tracing the connection of 

 different forms of rusts with each other. He spoke of the three 

 forms of prickly lettuce in Ohio, and of the disagreement of the 

 eastern botanists in regard to them. 



Miss Safer, Miss Brace, Mr. Whetstone, Mr. E. A. Sanders, 

 Mr. Whetsel, Mr. Arundel, Miss Stewart, Miss Hite, Mr. Dyer 

 and Mi.ss Mark were elected to membership. 



R. F. GRIGG.S, Sec'y. 



