28 OHIO STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
DHE EEORA OF TITTLE |GHICKENASLAND: 
JOHN H. SCHAFFNER. 
This paper appears in the Ohio Naturalist 3: 331. 1902. 
Fifteen species of seed plants were found on the island. 
SOME ALGAE FROM SANDUSKY BAY. 
LUMINA C. RIDDLE. 
This paper is published in the Ohio Naturalist: 3: 317-319. 
1902. Seventy species are listed of which forty-four are new to 
the state list. 
NEW HELICONIAS FROM GUATEMALA AND 
ELSEWHERE, 
ROBERT F. GRIGGS. 
( Abstract. ) 
Because of the climate and other difficulties many of the 
groups of tropical plants have been neglected and are almost 
unknown. It is almost impossible to make good specimens of 
Heliconias in the moist regions where they grow. Specimens 
when made are of little value as they are fragmentary and color- 
less. They have never been studied specially in the field and 
hence there is much to learn about them. On account of unusual 
opportunities for collecting and study the writer has been able 
to discover and describe seven new species from Guatemala and 
one from Porto Rico. The closeness of one of the Guatemalan 
species to H. bihai necessitated the revision of that species. It 
was found to be a composite to which plants of at least three 
types and four species had been referred. This paper will be 
published in full elsewhere. 
THREE INTERESTING: TROPICAES PLANS; 
ROBERT F, GRIGGS. 
(Abstract. ) 
The first of these is a species of Physalis with flowers only 
2 mm. in diameter — so small that they had been entirely over- 
looked by everyone who has examined it during the ten years it 
has lain in the National Herbarium. 
