2 0, S. U. Naturalist. [Nov. 



Advisory Board — Professor W. A. Kellerman, Ph. D., Depart- 

 ment of Botany; Professor Herbert Osborn, M. Sc. Department of 

 Zoology; Professor J. A. Bownocker, D. Sc, Department of Geology. 



The Naturalist, while aiming to be strictly scientific and tech- 

 nical in character, will endeavor to be of especial assistance to the 

 teachers and amatenr scientists of the state. It is believed that the 

 kind of work contemplated will be of great educational value. 



While The Naturalist is to be devoted especially to the inter- 

 ests of the state, other matter which may from time to time be 

 offered, will not be excluded. 



In these days, when specialization is the tendency in all branches 

 of knowledge, we think there is still room for the old-fashioned 

 naturalist who was well versed in a number of sciences. 



Wliatever one's career may be, we believe that every scientist, 

 and for that matter every person of education, should be a natural- 

 ist fli'st and cultivate a broad general sympathy witli nature, and 

 only after that has he a right to become a specialist. No apology 

 need therefore be made for the broad field which The Naturalist 

 is to cultivate, and we present it to the public, earnestly soliciting 

 the cooperation of university and college professors, high school 

 teachers, students, and amateurs in the different branches of natural 

 science; and asking tliat leniency of judgment which such enter- 

 prises merit when begun under special difficulties. Finally The 

 Naturalist is not intended to be a money-making institution, but 

 it will be improved and enlarged as rapidly as the income from sub- 

 scriptions and other resources will permit. 



J. H. S. 



AN OHIO STATION FOR AMPELOPSIS CORDATA. 

 W. A. Kellerman. 



(Plate 1.) 



While collecting in Scioto County on the 8th of July, 1900, I was 

 fortunate enough to come across an indigenous specimen of Ampe- 

 lopsis cordata. ®The station for the plant is on a Iiillside one mile 

 east of Portsmouth, Ohio. The cliaracter of the environment is in- 

 dicate4 in figure 3, plate 1 ; the i^lant in question growing on the 

 bank by the roadside at a point immediately above the bicycle in 

 the central part of the picture. The photograph from which the half 

 tone was made shows only a portion of the high hills that border the 

 Ohio river. The soil is clay and not regarded as very fertile. It is 

 generally the case perhaps that this species grows in " swamps and 

 along river banks," as stated in the manuals, but the ground here is 

 high and dry. 



*Since the MS. for ihi? article was passed to the printer, the locality was again visited and 

 several plants, some of large size, were found further up the hill-side. 



