Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  1 
March,  1892.  / 
Flora  of  Northern  Ohio. 
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Catawba  Island  has  now  been  reached  ;  the  botanist  did  not  recognize  it,  as  a 
narrow  road  connects  the  same  with  the  territory  just  left  ;  moreover,  in  a  dry 
summer  no  water  can  be  seen  in  the  lake  arm.  Rocks  commence  to  appear, 
the  biggest  of  which  is  Sugar  Rock  ;  from  the  top  of  it  his  eyes  glide  down  to 
the  shore  ;  and  he  can  stay  there  no  longer  ;  a  magnificent  specimen  of  Hibis- 
cus Moscheutos,  Lin.,  with  large  light  rose-colored  flowers,  calls  him  down. 
Near-by  in  fissures  of  the  rock  grows  Liatris  scariosa,  Willd.  (with  handsome 
rose-purple  flowers  and  corms  or  tuber-like  roots)  ;  Solidago  ulmifolia,  Muhl., 
and  Lespedeza  violacea,  Pers.,  soon  appear.  A  big  swamp  then  makes  his 
heart  rejoice,  for  it  is  full  of  Nelumbo  lutea,  Pers.  Of  course,  he  is  now 
unable  to  go  forward,  he  cannot  pass  without  having  pressed  several  specimens 
against  his  bosom,  which  the  deep  mud  of  the  swamp,  however,  had  almost 
prevented  him  from  doing.  Ottawa  City,  a  beautifully  situated  small  place, 
opposite  Mouse  and  South  Bass  Islands,  with  a  shore  formed  entirely  of  rocks 
is  then  reached  ;  the  botanist,  after  -having  secured  fine  specimens  of  Euphor- 
bia commutata,  Engelm.,  closes  his  investigations  here  for  the  present  time 
and  returns  on  a  road  leading  through  orchards  of  peaches  and  pears  to  his 
starting  point,  Gypsum,  and  to  the  railroad  which  brings  him  home  late  in  the 
evening. 
After  a  recreation  of  several  weeks,  the  botanist,  finding  that  he  has  left  in 
the  vicinity  of  Catawba  Island  quite  a  territory  unexplored,  takes  the  cars  to 
Sandusky,  from  which  place  a  steamer  will  convey  him  to  Lakeside,  situated 
on  a  peninsula  in  Ottawa  County.  This  place  is  a  summer  resort  visited  by 
many  people  in  order  to  strengthen  themselves  or  to  regain  their  health.  He 
has,  however,  neither  motive  nor  time  to  stay  ;  he  immediately  goes  forward 
to  the  quarries  and  into  the  woods  and  fields  to  gather  whatever  he  can  find  of 
plants  new  to  him.  The  decomposition  of  the  corniferous  limestone  furnishes 
here  as  on  Kelley's  Island  the  soil  on  which  the  vegetation  lives.  Very  soon 
he  discovers  Symphoricarpus  racemosus,  Michx.  (known  by  its  snow-white 
berries  in  winter),  as  also  Ceanothus  ovatus,  Desf.,  Calamintha  Nuttallii, 
Gray,  Asclepias  verticillata,  Li?i.,  Acerates  viridiflora,  Ell.,  Isanthus  cceru- 
leus,  Michx.,  Scutellaria  parvula,  Michx.,  and  Cercis  canadensis,  Lin.;  even 
on  the  debris  taken  from  quarries  at  the  near-by  Marblehead  he  finds  the 
renowned  medicinal  plant,  the  horehound,  Marrubium  vulgare,  Lin.,  accom- 
panied  by  the  not  less  important  catnip.  He  stays  there  over  night  and  his 
absence  from  home  having  been  limited  to  2  days,  takes  the  first  steamer  to- 
Sandusky  and  there  another  to  Cedar  Point  (in  Brie  County).  This  is  a  neck 
of  land,  a  peninsula,  several  miles  long,  but  very  narrow  and  bounded  by  Lake 
Brie  on  one  side  and  by  Sandusky  Bay  on  the  other;  it  is,  with  the  exception 
of  a  small  area  covered  with  woods  (near  its  point  and  on  the  Bayside),  nothing 
but  drift-sand  deposited  there  by  the  lake- waves.  No  sooner  has  the  botanist 
put  his  feet  on  the  shore  than  his  astonished  eyes  meet  several  species  of  plants 
unknown  to  him.  It  takes  him  hardly  a  minute  to  decide  which  one  to 
examine  first;  he  walks  up  to  the  nearest  at  hand,  accidentally  the  nicest  one 
also:  it  is  Tradescantia  virginica,  Lin.,  and  the  other  ones  follow:  Artemisia 
canadensis,  Michx.,  Potentilla  supina,  Lin.,  Cyperus  Schweinitzii,  Torr.,  and 
Carex  Hough tonii,  Torr.  Stepping  further  up  he  finds  Juncus  balticus 
var.  littoralis, Engelm. ,  Festuca  tenella,  Willd.,  Glyceria  nervata,  Trin.,  Sporo- 
bolus  cryptandrus,  Gray,  Lithospermum  hirtum,  Lehm.,  Habenaria  fimbriata, 
