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The Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol. IV, No. .S, 
NEWS AND NOTES. 
Most of the papers and abstracts in this issue of tlie X.atural- 
IST were read at the Novcniljcr meeting (jf the Ohio State 
Academy of Science. Others will appear in later numbers of the 
Naturaust. 
Krr.vta. — In Prof. Griggs’ “ Ncjtes (m Interesting Ohio 
Willows” (Ohio Nat., 4:11) the following correc tions sh"uld he 
made : jr 13, 37th line, for h/s/iurt r(jad d/stau/ : p. i4, 131I1 line, 
for iiomi)ial read uoriual : p. J5, 36th line, for /miry ! Hr read 
hairy. Hire. 
During the past year the dandelion ( Taraxacum tara.xacum and 
T. erythrosi)ermum ) has been in bloom in the open every month 
from January to December. Other jdants which are in bloom 
during the greater ]rart of the year, at Columbus, are Alsine 
media, Lepidium virginicum, aud Lamium amidexicaule. 
Recently Mr. A. A. Eaton has written an interesting account 
of Hquisetum laevigatum A. Hr. (Fern Bull 11 140). His ob.ser- 
vations agree with my own as I know this .species in the west. 
The manuals, even the latest, sa\’ that the stems of this species 
are perenuial, evergreen, the cones tipped with a rigid point. 
The aerial stems are annual and the cones do not have a point. 
Formerly in Kansas the plants growing on the prairie were 
burned off annually and the new aerial stems usually had the 
coues mature by the first of June. Either the description in our 
manuals of Braun’s F. laevigatum is wr<mg or else we have to 
deal with a composite species as Fatou suggests. 
Since all three forms of the prickly lettuce occur in Ohio, 
Lactuca saligna L. should be added to Miss Burr’s Compass 
Plants of Ohio, Ohio Nat. 3 : 333. j. h. s. 
The Moth Book. — We have been interested in turning 
through the pages of this work, and delighted in using the plates 
for the determination of specimens. The author. Dr. W. J. 
Holland, and the publi.shers. Doubleday, Page & Co., deserve 
especial credit for producing so important a volume. As The 
Butterfly Book has stimulated the study of butterflies, so will 
The Moth Book stimulate the study of moths. The tricolor 
process of photography by which the plates are produced is ver\- 
satisfactory for the jjarticular group treated, the careful selection 
of specimens and their preparation is commendable, and the 
chapters on Life-histor\’ and Anatomy, and on Capture, Prepara- 
tion aud Preservation of Specimens are full enough for general 
usage. We predict that the book will be welcomed by high- 
school pupils, by teachers, by amateurs and by specialists. — j. s. it. 
Date of publication of December number, Dec. 15. 1903 ; date of publication of 
January number, Jan. 20 , 1904. 
