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DEFICIENCIES IN THE SANDUSKY FLORA. 



Of the four counties, Lorain, Cuyahoga, Franklin 

 and Licking, each two or three times as large as Erie, 

 lists of plants have been published. Several hundred 

 species are common to the four counties. Only four of 

 these species, Viola canadensis, Hieracium venosam, 

 Veronica americana and Habenaria orbiculata, have 

 we failed to find in Erie county. 



However twenty-five species not found in Erie 

 county, grow in both Lorain and Cuyahoga. If we 

 had complete lists for the counties farther east. Lake 

 and Ashtabula, we should probably find in them a 

 still larger number that do not grow in Erie county. 

 Their higher hills and deeper ravines, give them a 

 more northern flora, than one finds in the neighborhood 

 of Sandusky. Moreover the Sandusky district con- 

 tains no genuine bog or sphagnous swamp. Such 

 a bog encircles a little lake a few miles south-east 

 of Erie county in Camden township, Lorain county. 

 The list of plants growing at Camden Lake and not in 

 Erie county, is probably incomplete. For some of the 

 names, I am indebted to Isabel S. Smith who has found 

 the specimens in the Oberlin herbarium. 



The list of other plants growing in northern 

 Ohio is based mainly on the work of other collectors. 

 It includes only those species which are said to grow 

 in two or more counties bordering on the Lake. Of 

 some of the species I have seen no specimens. Many 

 other species have been reported and many others un- 

 doubtedly grow in one place or another, but this list 

 together with the catalogue of plants of Sandusky and 

 vicinity and the plants of Camden are thought to 

 include all the native phenogams and vascular dryp- 

 togams which grow in the Lake counties, excepting 

 such as are very rare or local. 



