“ Professor Kellerman said that moulds are an important factor to guard against in canning fruit. It would be a great step in advance if fruit could be canned and kept without its being cooked beforehand.
Miss Elma Perry gave a list of the edible fungi of Ohio. So far 200 species have been recorded and there are no doubt many yet to add. ”

“ They are long-lived however and wells drilled in the Sixties are still producing. The oil in Southeastern Ohio has its origin in the various sands and therefore differs from that of Northwestern Ohio where all the oil is of limestone origin. ”

“ A few species are already abundant and some like Amaranthus graecizans appear to flourish better than on the prairies of the interior. The past summer a number of cornfields about Columbus were covered with very large tumbleweeds and during the winter a number of hedgerows were filled with them, presenting an appearance quite as striking as anything the writer has seen along this line.
The following is a list of the Ohio plants which may develop as tumbleweeds. Those with a question mark have not been seen by the writer to act as tumbleweeds and a few are given on the authority of Dr. ”

“ On examining other species the same thing was found. The only exceptions to the true imbricate vernation found are represented in figures 3 and 4. The section Purpureae, on account of its tendency to have opposite rather than alternate leaves, often forms such decussate buds as are shown in figure 3. In Salix incana Schrenk, a species whose leaves at maturity have revolute margins, the leaves have a greater or less tendency to roll backwards in the bud. ”

“ But as numerous larvae were found in positions practically inaccessible to any such means of distribution—such as on the opposite side of a sharp ledge of rocks, across a bramble thicket, or [Pg 124] even on plants growing in the crevices of bare rocks at a considerable distance above any pines—it seemed nearly certain that the adults must fly back to the plants to deposit their eggs.
It will be interesting to discover whether a similar food habit occurs in any of the Eastern members of the genus or whether this is peculiar to the western species. ”

“ In the genus Aphrophora as now limited little is known of the food habits of the larvae. One species (A. 4-notata) has been found on various plants and shrubs. The remaining three eastern species, which belong to a different group and are of some shade of brownish testaceous, have been given as feeding on pines in the adult state by various authors. ”

“ ANNUAL TUMBLEWEEDS.
1. Cycloloma atriplicifolium (Spreng.) Coult.
2. Salsola tragus L.
3. Amaranthus graecizans L.
4. Lepidium apetalum Willd. Beal.
5. Trifolium procumbens L. Beal.
6. Onagra biennis (L.) Scop. Beal.
TUMBLE-GRASSES.
7. Panicum capillare L.
8. Panicum flexile (Gattg.) Scrib.
9. Eragrostis pectinacea (Mx.) Steudl.
10. Eragrostis trichodes (Nutt.) Nash.
11. Eragrostis capillaris (L.) Nees. ?
12. Eragrostis frankii Steud. ?
13. Eragrostis purshii Schrad. ?
14. Agrostis hyemalis (Walt.) B. S. P.
PERENNIAL TUMBLEWEEDS.
15. Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R. Br. ”