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Abnormal Trillium, by Jos. F. James. Botanical Gazette, Vol. IX, 

 p. 113, July, 1884. 



Four-parted Trillium erectum, whorl of three leaves and small leaf 

 on peduncle. 



Contributions to the Flora of Cincinnati, by Jos. F. James, in the 

 Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, July, 1884. 



The article covers fourteen pages and gives the results of observa- 

 tions of the plants of the vicinity of Cincinnati, which have been accu- 

 mulating the past two years. Besides critical notes on the species, new 

 localities are given for many plants and a few, not before reported for 

 that region, are given. 



1885. 



Descriptive notes of some of the newer and least known weeds of 

 the State (W. R. L,azenby) in the Third Annual Report of the Ohio Agr. 

 Experiment Station for 1884, Columbus, 1885, p. 164. 



Twelve species are described from notes "from the answers received 

 from the circulars and from observations made by the Station." 



1886. 



Report on Forestry (by W. R. Eazenby), in Fourth Annual Report 

 of the Ohio Agr. Experiment Station for 1885, Columbus, 1886, pp. 242. 



The report covers two pages (242-3) and contains, (1) a "list of the 

 principal timber trees of Ohio," fifty-one species, both common and 

 scientific names are used; (2) a tabulation of "comparative growth and 

 hardiness of forest tree seedlings," sixteen species. 



Report on Weeds (by W. S. Devol), in Fourth Annual Report of the 

 Ohio Agr. Experiment Station for 1885, Columbus, 1886, p. 193. 



This report covers fourteen pages and includes "weeds on different 

 soils" (p. 193); "general remarks" (p. 194); "descriptive notes of five 

 species" (pp. 194-196); "prolificacy of weeds" (pp. 196-198, essentially 

 the same also in the Journal of the Columbus Horticultural Society, Vol. 

 Ill, No. 3, March, 1888, pp. 38-43); and a "List of the Plants of Ohio 

 (229 species) which generally appear as weeds" (pp. 198-206). 



The Flora of Ross County, Ohio, compared with that of New Eng- 

 land, by W. E. Safford, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. XIII, 

 p. 114, July, 1886. 



Notices a large number of conspicuous plants, many of which do not 

 reach New England. 



Natural History of the Grape, by W. R. Lazenby, in Proceedings of 

 the Columbus Horticultural Society, Columbus, Sept. 25, 1886, pp, 4. 



