86 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



Orchis spectabilis, Gay orchis. 



Aplectriura hyemale, Putty root. 



Cypripedium spectabile, Mocasin flower, 



Cypripedium pubescens, Mocasin yellow flower. 



Cypripedium Candidum, Small white, 



Asclepias tuberosa, Swallow wort. 



Asclepias quadrifolia, Swallow wort. 



Asclepias verticilata, Swallow wort. 



Apoeinema canabinum, Indian hemp. 



Amoonia salixifolia, Indian hemp. 



Asarum canadensis, Wild ginger. 



The foregoing list of native plants of Ohio, was furnished 

 me by R. Buchanan of Cincinnati. The most of them have 

 been cultivated in his own garden. Many of them are found 

 in the gardens of Mr. Joseph Clark, and of Mrs. G. Lea, and 

 all of them in the beautiful grounds of N. Longworth, Esquire. 

 This gentleman's taste for the collection of the elegant and 

 curious plants of our own region, is deserving of all praise. 

 Why should we be indebted to other climes, for sickly exotics, 

 whilst the woods and prairies of our own state, furnish the 

 most beautiful variety of flowering plants, throughout the sea- 

 son? They are all perfectly hardy and are cultivated with 

 but little trouble. 



The misseltoe grows on the banks of the Ohio, and near 

 them. By procuring its seeds in September, it might be 

 transplanted into the trees of our woods, where it would grow 

 well, any where almost, in this state. 



We see all along the bottoms of the Scioto and the Great 

 Miami rivers, all the plants that we do along the bottoms of 

 the Cumberland and Tennessee, excepting the reed cane, 

 growing still, near these latter rivers, where protected from 

 cattle. 



Such plants as require a very poor soil are rare in Ohio, be- 

 cause, we have little such soil; so of those that grow in very 

 high latitudes, or in elevated grounds. Such is the arbor vi- 

 tae; it is found near the Yellow springs, in Greene county. 



