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71. *Salix interior var. wheeleri Rowlee. Cedar Point. W. A. 



Kellerman and R. F. Griggs, 

 71. *8alix petiolaris var. gracilis And. Perkins twp. R. F. Griggs^ 

 71. *Salix Candida X cordata. Castalia. R.F.Griggs. 

 73. Quercus leana Nutt. (Q. imbucaria x velutina). Cedar Point, 



three trees. W. A. Kellerman and R. F. Griggs. 



98. Crataegus sp. undetermined. Marble-head. W. A. Kellerman. 



99. Prunus pumila L. Sand Cherry, two plants on Cedar Points. 



W. A. Kellerman and R. F. Griggs. 

 130. Convolvulus japonicus Thumb. Sandusky, escaped. R. F». 



Griggs. 

 156. Eupatorium maculatum L. Blue Hole, Castalia. Frederick 



Dunlap. 



158. *Helianthus maximiliani Schrad. A single plant along L. S.. 



& M. S. tracks. R. F. Griggs. 



159. *Polymnia canadensis var. radiata Gray. Cedar Point, very 



abundant. R. F. Griggs. 



MINOR PLANT NOTES, NO. 3. 

 W. A. Kellerman. 



SoKGHUM Smut in Adams County. — A small field of Sorghum, 

 near Mineral Springs Station, Adams County, Ohio, was observed 

 last November to be badly infected with the grain smut of Sorghum, 

 known to botanists as ustilago sorghi, or perhaps more correctly 

 designated (according to G. P. Clinton) as Cintractia sorghi-vulgaris. 

 A careful inspection of the harvested stalks, still piled in the field, 

 showed that fully twenty per cent, of the panicles or heads were 

 infected. When there is infection by this smut, usually every grain 

 in the panicle is smutted according to repeated observations in 

 various localities. The field in question was very thickly planted to- 

 sorghum, the crop evidently being intended for stock feed. The 

 only other locality reported in Ohio for this smut, so far as at present 

 recalled, is Columbus, where however it has occurred only upon 

 artificial infection. Broom corn also was here successfully infected. 

 Sorghum is often cultivated, but not in large quantities in Ohio; a. 

 lai'ge acreage of broom corn is however annuall.y planted. Request 

 is hereby made for reports in case this smut is noticed in other- 

 localities in our State. The Head-smut of Sorghum, Ustilago 

 reiliana, should also be reported if observed. 



Notes on some Rusts.— M. A. Carleton, of the United States. 

 Department of Agriculture, has published some observations and 

 experiments on a few rusts that are of special interest, and may welli 



