Jan., 1907.] An Interesting Boulder. 6i 



ADDITIONS TO THE OHIO FLORA FOR 1905 6. 



Freda Detmers. 



The following plants have been added to the State Flora 

 since the last report, made in 1903-4. It has been customary to 

 report onl_v those of which there are specimens in the State Her- 

 barium, however, this list contains exceptions to this rule. Two 

 plants are included which are not in the Herbarium of the Uni- 

 versity; both are reported on good authority and one is in the 

 Herbarium of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Wooster, also a state hei^barium. 



Coronilla varia L. In the Herbarium of the Ohio Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, Wooster, O. Collected by M. M. 

 Murphy, Ripley, 0., June 1899. It was reported by Mr. A. D. 

 Selby. I quote from Mr. Selb3''s letter: "Mr. Murphy wrote that 

 the specimens had become well established and that he had 

 observed the plant for several years." 



Danthonia compressa Austin. Collected by Roscoe J. Webb, 

 Garrettsville, Portage County, July 8, 1906. 



Hartmannia speciosa (Nutt.) Small. (Oenothera speciosa 

 Nutt.) Collected by Thomas S. Earl, along Railroad track, Co- 

 lumbus. 



Polystichum acrostichoides (Mx.) Schott, var. incisum Gray. 

 (Dryopteris acrostichoides var. incisum). Collected by L. S. 

 Hopkins, Wayne County, July 25, 1905. 



Trillium declinatum (A. Grav) Gleason, n. sp. Reported 

 for Ohio bv Gleason in Torr. Buh. Bot. Club VII:389. July, 1906. 



WolfRella floridana (J. D. Smith) C. A. Thompson. Deter- 

 mined by C. A. Thompson. Collected by W. A. Kellerman, 

 Buckeye Lake, Licking County. Oct. 19, 1906. 



AN INTERESTING BOULDER OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Edo Cl.\.'\ssex. 



Among the many boulders of Northern Ohio, which repre- 

 sent granite, amphibolite, gneiss and other rocks, one occasion- 

 all}^ finds a specimen more interesting than usual. It is such a 

 piece of rock that is lying partly imbedded in the ground on 

 Superior Avenue, west of Forest Hill Park, in East Cleveland 

 Township near the top of a hill, several hundred feet above Lake 

 Erie. The boulder is evidently gneiss and has a nearly flat sur- 

 face of an OA'al shape, when seen from above. It has a circum- 

 ference at the surface of the ground of about nine feet, a some- 

 what cleavable structure, produced by the quartz having been 

 mostly deposited in layers and, while a considerable amount of 



