32 SANDUSKY FLORA. 



we omit Stra\vberry Elite, Chenopodium capitatum, 

 seen on Green Island in 1892, but not collected, and 

 Hedeoma hispida, given in a list of plants, analyzed in 

 the eastern part of Erie county by Josephine Fish, a 

 number of years ago. The last has been found in 

 Lorain County by Prof. Kelsey, but perhaps is not in- 

 digenous to Ohio. 



FOREST TREES. 



Most of the land of Erie county' is now under cul- 

 tivation. Much of it w^as treeless when the earliest 

 settlements were made. Nevertheless, it supports a 

 greater variet}^ of trees than do most of the counties of 

 Ohio, greater, perhaps, than any similar area farther 

 north in America. Birch, alder and tamarack, which 

 grow farther east in Ohio, are lacking in Erie county, 

 but it has ten kinds of oak, six of hickory, five of ash, 

 four of maple, four of poplar, four of willow, three of 

 thorn, two of elm, two of ironwood, two of wild crab, 

 and one each of black cherry, chokecherry, plum, june- 

 berry, basswood, box elder, buckeye, staghorn sumach, 

 papaw, tulip, cucumber, red-bud, locust, coffee-tree, 

 dogwood, pepperidge, sassafras, mulberry, hackberry, 

 buttonwood, beach, chestnut, walnut, butternut, hem- 

 lock, cedar and pine. Besides these, there are several 

 cultivated kinds that have become naturalized. The 

 distribution is given in the catalogue, where the names 

 may be found by referring to the index. Erie county 

 has five times as many native trees as the whole of 

 Great Britain. 



THE CATALOGUE. 



The catalogue that follows gives the names of the 

 phenogams and vascular cryptogams in the her- 

 barium of the Sandusky high school which have been 

 collected in the region shown on the accompanying 



