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List of the medicinal plants of Ohio, with brief account of their prop- 

 erties, by John M. Bigelow, M. D., Columbus, Ohio, 1849. 



Pamphlet of forty-seven pages. (Not seen; given in Britton's State 

 and Local Floras. Torrey Bulletin; vol. X. p. 104). 



1852. 



Catalogue of Flowering Plants and Ferns observed in the vicinity of 

 Cincinnati, by Joseph Clark. Adopted and published by the Western 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Cincinnati, 1852. 



Pamphlet of thirty pages. The list — preceded only by a list of the 

 officers and curators of the academy, there being no preface — embraces 

 the plants "observed growing in a compass of about six miles around 

 Cincinnati." In a foot-note the author says, "Some of them cannot be 

 found in the circuit * * * * but they were all found as above indi- 

 cated, within the last fifteen years." The genera of the flowering plants 

 and ferns (Chara flexilis also included) are arranged alphabetically, and 

 the orders are not indicated. No varieties as such are recognized. Six 

 hundred and one -species are given, and in an Addenda, by Robert 

 Buchanan, ninety-five more are given, or a total of 696 species. 



1854. 



The Grasses of Wisconsin and the adjacent States of Iowa, Illinois, 

 Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, and the territory of Minnesota and the 

 region about Lake Superior, by I. A. Lapham. Trans. Wis. State, 

 Agr. Soc. Ill, 397-488, 1853. Madison, Wis., 1854. 



The introduction covers two pages. "For the grasses of Ohio be- 

 sides my own (Lapham's) observations in that state, I am indebted to the 

 catalogues and communications of Dr. J. L. Riddell, Mr. Wm. S. Sulli- 

 vant, Mr. Joseph Clark and the late Mr. T. G. Lea." The list contains 

 149 species. They are arranged in tabular form giving "the scientific 

 name, the common name, the duration and time of flowering, height or 

 length of culms, kind of roots and natural place of growth." Of the 149 

 species "eleven are found in Ohio and not in the other states or territories, 

 adjoining Wisconsin." Following the tabulation is a general discussion, 

 "artificial arrangement" (key), a full description of all the species men- 

 tioned and eleven full paged plates. 



1858. 



List of the Grasses found in Ohio, by John H. Klippart. Twelfth 

 Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, 1859. Columbus, 



1858, p. 37. 



This compiled list includes both the native and cultivated grasses, 

 and gives, in tabular form, the scientific name, common name, place where 



