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()64a. Quercus imbricaria x rubra. Franklin County, V^-^. 

 Fischer, 189.5. This interesting tree, now growing on a vacant 

 lot in the city of Columbus, was discovered by the writer in 

 September, 1S95, and regarded at that time as a cross between 

 Q. rubra and 0. imbricaria. Specimens in the herbarium, how- 

 ever, have always been labeled Q. imbricaria x velutina. If this 

 oak is to be regarded as a hybrid of the shingle oak and some 

 one of the red oak group, the evidence is certainly in favor of 

 Q. rubra being one of its parents. A few small entire leaves, the 

 pubescence on the under side of all the leaves, and the size of 

 the fruit are probably characters inherited from Q. imbricaria; 

 while the form of the majority. of the leaves and of the acorn, 

 especially the cup. also the habit and general aspect of the 

 entire tree all point strongly to a Q. rubra ancestry. 



1160a. Croton inonanthogynous Michx. Franklin County, 

 W. Fischer, 1905. Quite a patch of this western plant was 

 found along a railroad track at North Columbus. 



1593a. Perilla frutescens (L.). Warren County, W. Fischer, 

 1905. Around an old deserted dwelling and barn near Loveland, 

 where it has been doing well and multiplying for the past fifteen 

 years. 



1960a. Coreopsis lanceolata L. Franklin County, W. Fischer, 

 1905. Escaped from gardens at Marble ClifT, where is has been 

 spreading the last four or five years. 



While botanizing during the past summer and fall a few 

 other plants more or less rare were added by the writer. Some 

 of these had not been in the herbarium before, although pre- 

 viously reported for the State. 



Another hybrid oak, probably Q. imbricaria x velutina, was 

 discovered in Warren County near Loveland. This tree is 

 remarkable for having an aspect entirely that of Q. imbricaria . 

 The leaves are medium in size and almost entire, the majority 

 being wavy in outline, while lobed ones are very scarce. The 

 fruit resembles that of Q. velutina more closely than that of any 

 other of the red oak group. 



Aster sagittijolius urophyllus (Lindl.) and ^4. Lowrieanus 

 Porter, from the dry wooded hills of Fairfield County ; and .4 . 

 puniceus lucidulus A. Gray and A. junceus Ait. on Cranberry 

 Island, Buckeye Lake, Licking County, the last named also in 

 streams in Franklin County. 



Helianthus Maximiliani Schrad. and H. mollis Lam., both 

 western sunflowers, the former reported for Lake County in 1900 

 and the latter for Erie County in 1895, were found growing in 

 considerable quantities near Marble Clii^ in Franklin County. 



