Feb., 1909.] New or Noteworthy Plants of Ohio. 44 1 



Cerastium arvense villosum Hollick & Britton. (C. arv. 

 velutinum (Raf.) Britton. Similar to the preceding in height; 

 densely villous-pubescent: leaves lanceolate to more or less ovate; 

 pod usually more than twice as long as the calyx. Usually on 

 serpentine rock, eastern Pennsylvania, also reported from 

 Hamilton, Ontario; not reported from Ohio. 



Cerastium arvense Webbii var. nov. Similar to the other 

 "varieties" in height, our specimens about 3.5 to 4 dm., more or 

 less densely viscid-pubescent, especially above. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate below to ovate-lanceolate above, the latter attaining a 

 size of 1.2 cm. wide by 6 cm. long, all somewhat obtuse, paler 

 beneath. Cymes rather strict, pedicels rather stiff and 1 to 3.5 

 cm. long. Sepals narrowly oval, acute, white-scarious margined, 

 about 2 mm. wide by 6 mm. long. Petals 1 cm. long by 5 mm. 

 wide, obovate, the apex emarginate to the depth of about 1.5 

 mm. Mature pods not seen. 



Named in honor of the collector. Type specimens: two 

 sheets, one in the General Herbarium of the Carnegie Museum at 

 Pittsburg, the other in the herbarium of Mr. Roscoe J. Webb, 

 Garrettsville, Ohio. 



A cursory examination of the material in the Ohio State Her- 

 barium, State University, Columbus, last spring indicated that 

 there are likeh" other specimens extant from Ohio localities which 

 belong with our Rock}' River specimens thus indicating perhaps 

 a considerable range for our new "variety." 



Lycopodium lucidulum porophilum (Lloyd & Underwood) 

 Clute. In August, 1908, a specimen of Club Moss was received 

 from Mr. Almon N. Rood, of Phalanx, Trumbull County, Ohio, 

 with the interesting information that he had found it early in 

 the fall of 1907, growing on the perpendicular face of rocks at 

 Nelson Ledge, Portage County, Ohio. After puzzling over this 

 plant for some time Mr. Rood sent a specimen to a prominent 

 botanist in the East and was informed that it was L. Selago L. 

 The plant was growing on cliffs of "sub-carboniferous conglom- 

 erate," the height of the cliffs being not over 75 feet and the 

 surroundings in general were not such as would be expected in a 

 localitv harboring L. Selago. 



On August 18, 1908, Prof. L. S. Hopkins and Mr. Roscoe J. 

 Webb, acting under direction of Mr. Rood, found a considerable 

 colonv of the plant at the first localitv, Nelson Ledges. On the 

 23d of August, 1908, Mr. Rood and Supt. F. N. Barber, of 

 Crafton, Pa., discovered a second locality for the Club Moss on 

 conglomerate cliffs at Woodworth's Glen, in southern Portage 

 County, Ohio, there being here quite a number of the plants and 

 many of the plants being in inaccessible locations. 



The writer has examined a number of these plants and there 

 can be no doubt that they represent true L. lucidulum porophilum 



