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SANDUSKY FLORA. 



The flora of the Sandusky district is a rich one. 

 We believe there is no other local collection of Ohio 

 plants that approaches within three hundred species of 

 the number collected in the past seven years, in Erie 

 county and the eastern part of Ottawa county, and 

 now preserved at the Sandusky High School. Of the 

 many local lists published in other states, we have seen 

 none that give so many native species as have been 

 found near Sandusky, although several of them cover 

 much larger areas and represent the labors of many 

 botanists working for long periods of time. Some of 

 these lists, moreover, include territory that is regarded 

 especially rich in plants. 



The "Flora of Buffalo and its Vicinity," by David 

 F. Day, presents the names of all the plants which have 

 been detected within fifty miles of Buffalo, a territory 

 many times as large as Erie county, Ohio, and includ- 

 ing on the one side the whole of the Niagara river with 

 its profusion of flowers and ferns, and, on the other 

 mountains with an altitude of 2300 feet above the sea. 

 " The Cayuga Flora" by William R. Dudley, published 

 as a Bulletin of the Cornell University, covers an area 

 65 miles in extreme length and is based on numerous 

 collections, the first of which was made in 1827. The 

 " Plants of Monroe county, New York, and 

 Adjacent Territory," published by the Rochester 



