74 The Ohio Naturalist [Vol. IV, No. 8, 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



Most of the papers and abstracts in tliis issue of the Natural- 

 ist were read at the November meeting of the Ohio State 

 Academy of Science. Others wih appear in later numbers of the 

 Naturalist. 



Errata. — In Prof. Griggs' " Notes on Interesting Ohio 

 WiUows" (Ohio Nat., 4:11 ) the following corrections should be 

 made: p. 13, 37th line, ior disfii/rl \'ijiv\ dis/an/ : p. i4, i^lhline, 

 for nominal read normal : p. 15, 3()lh line, for hairy like read 

 /miry, like. 



During the past year the dandelion (Taraxacum taraxacum and 

 T. erythrospermum ) has been in bloom in the open every month 

 from January to December. Other plants which are in bloom 

 during the greater part of the year, at Columbus, are Alsine 

 media, Iye])idium virginicum, and Lamium amplexicaule. 



Recently Mr. A. A. Eaton has written an interestiitg account 

 of Equisetum laevigatum A. Br. (Fern Bull 11 140). His obser- 

 vations agree with my own as I know this species in the west. 

 The manuals, even the latest, say that the stems of this species 

 are perennial, evergreen, the cones tipped wiih a rigid point. 

 The aerial stems are annual and the cones do not have a point. 

 Formerly in Kansas the plants growing on the prairie were 

 burned off annually and the new aerial stems usually had the 

 cones mature by the first of June. Either the description in our 

 manuals of Braun's E. laevigatum is wrong or else we have to 

 deal with a composite species as Eaton suggests. 



Since all three forms of the prickly lettuce occur in Ohio, 

 Lactuca saligna E. should be added to Miss Burr's Compass 

 Plants of Ohio, Ohio Nat. 3 : 333. j. h. s. 



The Moth Book. — We have been interested in turning- 

 through the pages of this work, and delighted in using the plates 

 for the determination of specimens. The author. Dr. W. J. 

 Holland, and the publishers, Doubleday. Page & Co., deserve 

 especial credit for producing .so important a volume. As The 

 Butterfly Book has stimulated the study of butterflies, so will 

 The Moth Book stimulate the study of moths. The tricolor 

 process of photography by which the i)lales are produced is very 

 satisfactory for the particular group treated, the careful selection 

 of specimens and their preparation is commendable, and the 

 chapters on Eifc-history and Anatomy, and on Capture, Prepara- 

 tion and Preservation of Specimens are full enough for general 

 usage. We predict that the book will be welcomed by high- 

 school pupils, by teachers, by amateurs and by specialists. — j. s. 11. 



Date of publication of December number, Dec. 15. 1003; date of publication of 

 January number, Jan. 20 , 1904. 



