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those of the cabbage butterfly and the canker worm moth for ex- 
ample, while entomologists will be likely to puzzle over the pho- 
tograph from life of a “ Woodboring beetle at work in yellow 
pine board.” H. O. 
MEETING OF THE BIOLOGICAL CLUB. 
Orton Hall, January 12, 1903. 
The club was called to order by the president, Mr. Morse. 
The paper of the evening was given by Dr. Kellerman, who 
spoke upon his last summer’s trip to West Virginia. He pointed 
out our interest in all the floras near our own. But that of 
West Virginia is especially interesting because so closely allied to 
that of Southeastern Ohio. The flora of the State has been in the 
main neglected. Dr. Millspaugh and Mr. Nuttall have done 
practically all the work that has been published, but their lists 
include only 1366 embryopliytes. The portion of the State along 
the Ohio River has a flora very much the same as that of the 
river counties in this State ; but higher up along the Gauley 
River the flora is different and very interesting. He exhibited 
specimens of a number of the most interesting plants. He then 
spoke of his work on the Greenbrier River and the differences of 
the flora there from that of the Gauley. He spoke of the deso- 
lating effect of the destructive lumbering in the region, especially 
that now being perpetrated on the Cheat Mountain. 
Under personal observation Mr. Swezey reported strawberries 
blossoming during Christmas week in Illinois, and that a few 
berries ripened as late as Thanksgiving day. 
Mr. Jennings reported Epilobium adenocaulum from West 
Virginia, which is considerably out of its range. He reported 
Paspalum pubescens from Sandusky. 
Mr. J. G. Sanders spoke of an abnormal Podosphaera described 
by him in the current number of the Journal of Mycology. 
Dr. Kellerman spoke of an abnormal beet six feet tall which 
flowered the first year. He showed pictures of an abnormal 
buckeye with very peculiar almost pinnate leaves. He spoke of 
three new species named for himself by a German botanist, to be 
described in the Journal of Mycology. He reported a large 
number of successful experiments in tracing the connection of 
different forms of rusts with each other. He spoke of the three 
forms of prickly lettuce in Ohio, and of the disagreement of the 
eastern botanists in regard to them. 
Miss Sater, Miss Brace, Mr. Whetstone, Mr. E. A. Sanders, 
Mr. Whetsel, Mr. Arundel, Miss Stewart, Miss Hite, Mr. Dyer 
and Miss Mark were elected to membership. 
R. F. Griggs, Sec'y. 
