﻿Contributions to the Flora of Cincinnati. 



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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF CINCINNATI. 

 By Joseph F. James. 



Read and referred to the Publishing Committee March 4, 1884. 



The following remarks are the result of observations on the plants of the 

 vicinity of Cincinnati, which have been accumulating during the past two 

 or three years. The Catalogue of Plants of Cincinnati, published in 1879, 

 was compiled hastily, and errors unfortunately crept in. Some of these 

 were corrected, and some additions made in 1881, by Mr. D. L. James The 

 preseut observations embody the results of study of some of our species and 

 genera, and are here presented in the hope of making our flora better 

 known and of inducing others to study it. Some of the notes have ap- 

 peared elsewhere, but others are entirely new. 



T feel indebted to many persons for information in regard to localities. 

 Most of all, to the late Mr. T. W. Spurlock, one of the most indefatigable 

 students our flora has ever had; to the Misses Mohr, Dr. R,. M. Byrnes, 

 Mr. D. L. James, Mr George B. TwitchelL Mr. C. B. Going, Mr. 0. G. 

 Lloyd and Mr. A P. Morgan, I am also indebted, and desire to thank for 

 their assistance in making the list more complete than it otherwise would 

 have been. Joseph F. James, 



Custodian Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



RANUNCULACEiE. 



7. Anemone Thalictroides, L., has been considered by many writers 

 Thalictrum Anemenoides, Michx. It is still so named in Gray's Manual, and 

 that authority was followed in the catalogue of 1879. Study of the species 

 convinced me that it was more of an Anemone than a Thalictrum, and in 

 Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol x., p. 56, 1 suggested that the old Linnean name 

 be restored, and for the following reasons: It differs essentially from Thal- 

 ictrum in having an involucre, and agrees in all respects with Anemone, 

 except that Dr Gray makes the arbitrary distinction, "achenia — not 

 ribbed." Omit the not and let it read, " Achenia pointed or tailed, flattened 

 or ribbed," and the generic description of Anemone of Dr. Gray will fit ad- 

 mirably the Rue- Anemone. Since making my note to this effect, I fin-d 

 that Bentham and Hooker have placed Syndesmon, Hoffm., under Anemone, 

 though Dr. Gray considered it a subgenus under Thalictrum. 



11. Trautyetteria palmata, F. M., was inserted into the catalogue of 

 1879, on the authority of Mr. Lea's list published in 1849. No one has 



