BOTANY. 79 



Gives a general description of the group, followed by descriptions of 

 the species. Twenty-four species (five of them new) belonging to seven 

 genera are described, accompanied by a plate of twelve figures. 



Die Glumifloren des Noerdlichen Ohio, von Kdo Claassen, Cleveland, 

 Ohio. Pharmaceutische Rundschau, February, 1893. 



Gives list of species found along the shore of Lake Brie in the 

 counties of Cuyahoga, Ottawa, Erie, Lake, Medina, Summit, Geauga 

 and Portage. 



Ipomaea pandurata, by A. F. Linn. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club, Vol. XX, p. 258, June, 1893. 



Notes occurrence of a large root (weight twenty-five pounds) of this 

 species at Springfield. 



SCOPE AND CHARACTER OF PRESENT PUBLICATION. 



This catalogue is the first to include all the groups of plants repre- 

 sented in Ohio. Our knowledge of the flowering plants and of the 

 higher cryptogams, or fiowerless plants, is based on the work of many 

 botanists and hosts of collectors. A large portion of the collected mater- 

 ial has passed through our hands and we have visited many portions of 

 the state. But few of our botanists have studied the Mosses, Liverworts, 

 Lichens, Fungi and Algae and collectors have almost invariably neglected 

 them. The list in the lowest groups (Thallophytes) must be considered 

 very fragmentary and a mere beginning. 



The state catalogue also differs from its predecessors in giving 

 stations (with credit to first collectors) for all except the commoner 

 plants. It has been the aim to admit no plant of doubtful occurrence, 

 though in some of the groups, especially in the Algae, no censorship was 

 possible. 



A tabulation for popular use is here inserted, presenting a compre- 

 hensive view of the several groups and their relation to each other. 



