OHIO STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



ATTRACTIONS FOR A SCIENTIST IN THE VICIN- 

 ITY OF SANDUSKY. 



BY E. L. MOSELEY. 



( ABSTRACT.) 



The points of Geologic interest are the Castalia Springs, 

 six miles from Sandusky ; the glacial grooves of Kelly's Is- 

 land and of the other islands and the peninsula; the sandy 

 ridges which formed the shores of Lake Erie when it stood 

 at a higher level and covered a larger region ; fine examples 

 of erosion of the Huron shale, transportation of large boul- 

 ders and such a number and variety of the large calcareous 

 concretions as few localities can offer; also Celestite from 

 Green Island, Fluorite on Rattlesnake Island and Gypsum 

 on the north Side of Sandusky Bay, fossil fishes and inver- 

 tebrate remains. The region is also of much zoological in- 

 terest. 



Among the rarer plants are the following, the quota- 

 tions being from Kellerman and Werner's Catalogue of Ohio 

 Plants : 



Eryngium aquaticum L. (E. yuccaefolium Mx.) — Rat- 

 tle Snake, Master or Button Snake Root. "Central Ohio, 

 J. E. Riddell (Synop., 183o); W. S. Sullivant (Cat., 1840); 

 not observed by recent collectors." 



Helianthus mollis Eam. — "Cincinnati, Joseph Clark 

 (Cat.)" 



Rhexia virginica L. Deer Grass, Meadow Beauty. — 

 "Cincinnati, Joseph Clark (H. C. Beardslee, Cat.)" 



Meibomia .sessilifolia ( Torr.) Kuntze. — Not given in 

 Cat. of Kellerman and Werner, nor Wright or E. H. Jones' 

 list. 



Hypericum gentianoides (E.) B. S. P.; (H. nudicaule 

 Walt.)— "General, J. S. Newberry (Cat.) ; Portsmouth, J. 

 S. Hine." 



