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ing county, 3'et I am sure to find a few each year. It is 

 less noisy and incessant in its piping and, being so small 

 and retiring, it could not be so conspicuous in a 

 locality as its larger comrade; this, in part, accounts 

 for the fact that it has been so long overlooked in this 

 state. While living in Berea, Cuyahoga Co., 1890- 

 1892, I took several specimens of this tree-frog, and Dr. 

 Kellicott informs me that E. Y. Wilcox took it at Sugar 

 Grove several years ago. In Vol. IV, Zoology and Bot- 

 any of the Ohio Geological Survey, Dr. W. H. Smith 

 says, in his report on the Reptiles and Amphibians of 

 Ohio, "I have not seen this species from the state, and 

 have included it here, solely on the extent of its extra 

 limital range." So evidently nothing was known of its 

 occurrence in Ohio up to the time of the publication of 

 that volume of the survey in 1892. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE NUTATION OF 

 HELIANTHUS ANNUUS. 



J. H. SCHAFFNER, M. A. 



[ABSTRACT.] 



Observations were made on the nutation of the 

 western variety of Helianthus,in Clay Co., Kan., during 

 the summers of '96 and '97. The terminal buds nutate 

 up to the time of anthesis. The bending is usually 90° 

 west in the evening, and about 60° west in the morn- 

 ing. From 10 o'clock P. M. to 1 o'clock A. M. the 

 plants assume a "sleeping" position. Cloudiness and 



