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April, 1902 .] Trailing and Creeping Plants of Ohio. 
Following is a tabulation of the results obtained : 
Number of row 
I 
X 
2 
x 
3 
X 
4 
X 
Total number of stalks 
972 
1,026 
842 
841 
806 
777 
737 
884 
Percentage of stalks smutted, 
•5 
9-7 
n -5 
8.5 
10.4 
8.6 
H -5 
9-5 
Percentage of diseased stalks 
having diseased ears 
29.2 
32.6 
18.6 
l8. 1 
16 6 
20.9 
22-3 
2S.6 
Percentage of smut above ear, 
7-5 
8 
8.2 
8-3 
8-3 
7-5 
2-3 
7 -i 
Percentage of smut below ear, 
63 -3 
60 
73-2 
73-6 
75 
71.6 
75-3 
64-3 
Percentage of smut on or with- 
in six inches of wound 
34-2 
13.6 
59 'S 
17-5 
Percentage of smut over six 
but less than twelve inches 
from wound 
.... 
x, check row. 
TRAILING AND CREEPING PLANTS OF OHIO. 
Alice Dufour. 
Lines of demarcation between creeping forms and climbing 
forms and also between creeping forms and those that are nearly 
decumbent do not exist. Creeping plants do not include those 
with special runners like the strawberry, or those with deep 
underground root-stalks like some lilies, or those forming mats 
like some of the spurges. Under the term creeping plants are 
included such forms as are prostrate and spread as do the melons, 
or such as spread by the stems striking root as does the winter- 
green . 
There are about 42 creepers in Ohio. Of these 8 are annuals, 
34 are perennials; 9 w r oody, 33 herbaceous; 26 native, and 16 
introduced. These are : 
Ranunculus repens, herbaceous perennial from Europe. 
Rubus hispidus, 
villosus, woody plants. 
Dalibarda repens, herbaceous perennial. 
Potentilla canadensis, herbaceous perennial. 
Trifolium repens, herbaceous perennial. 
Lespedeza repens, 
procumbens, herbaceous perennials. 
I.athyrus niaritimus, 
palustrus, 
myrtifolius, herbaceous perennials. 
Vicia hirsuta, annual from Europe. 
