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0. S. U. Naturalist. 
[Nov. 
Advisory Board — Professor W. A. Kellerman, Ph. D., Depart- 
ment of Botany; Professor Herbert Osborn, M. Sc.. Department of 
Zoology; Professor J. A. Bownocker, D. Sc., Department of Geology. 
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J. H. S. 
AN OHIO STATION FOR AMPELOPSIS CORDATA. 
W. A. Kellerman. 
(Plate 1.) 
While collecting in Scioto County on the 8th of July, 1900, I was 
fortunate enough to come across an indigenous specimen of Ampe- 
lopsis cordata. *The station for the plant is on a hillside one mile 
east of Portsmouth, Ohio. The character of the environment is in- 
dicated in figure 3, plate 1 ; the plant in question growing on the 
bank by the roadside at a point immediately above the bicycle in 
the central part of the picture. The photograph from which the half 
tone was made shows only a portion of the high hills that border the 
Ohio river. The soil is clay and not regarded as very fertile. It is 
generally the case perhaps that this species grows in “ swamps and 
along river banks,” as stated in the manuals, but the ground here is 
high and dry. 
*Since the MS. for this article was passed to the printer, the locality was again visited and 
several plants, some of large size, were found further up the hill-side. 
