ne Ohio ^^Caturalis^^ 



PUBLISHED BY 



The Biologica.1 Club of the Ohio State University, 

 Volume X. FEBRUARY. 1910. No. 4. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



HiNE— Ohio Species of Mice •..'..• 65 



Detmers— Medicinal Plants of Ohio (concluded) 73 



VicKF.KS — List of Ferns of Mahoning Co. with Special Reference to Mill Creek I'ark 86 



OHIO SPECIES OF MICE. 



James S. Hine. 



Two different papers enumerating the Ohio species of mam- 

 mals known as mice have been pubHshed. Jared P. Kirtland, 

 in the Ohio Geological Survey Report for 1838, named four 

 species as follows: house mouse, common white-footed mouse, 

 jumping mouse and the meadow mouse. All of these are 

 common in the state today, although the jumping mouse is 

 reported as rare in some localities, but in other localities it 

 certainly is rather plentiful. About the year 1878 A. W. Bray ton 

 of Irvington, Indiana furnished the manuscript for a report on 

 the Mammals of Ohio, in which he listed the house mouse, white- 

 footed mouse, rice field mouse, pine mouse, common meadow 

 mouse, prairie meadow mouse, and jumping mouse. Two other 

 species, namely: Cooper's mouse and the northern golden mouse 

 were mentioned as of probable occurrence within our limits. 

 There appears to be some mistake about the record for the 

 prairie meadow mouse for no specimens have been reported in 

 recent years and the material on which Brayton bases his record 

 turns out to be the pine or mole mouse. Cooper's mouse has 

 been taken in various parts of the state and in some places is 

 known to be common, but no record for the golden mouse is yet 

 reported. Of the nine species mentioned by Brayton therefore, 

 further records of seven are at hand. Brayton's paper was 

 published in the Report of the Ohio Geological Survey, 1882, 

 Volume IV. 



The collecting that has been done in more recent years has 

 brought together Ohio material of at least nine species and 

 varieties, while the work in adjoining and neighboring states 

 suggests the possibility that four or more additional ma}^ be 

 procured when further work has been done and all favorable 





localities investigated. 



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