Jan., 1902.] Minor Plant Notes, No. 4. i8i 



Dr. Brittou lias described this sunflower in his ' ' Manual of the 

 Flora of the Northern States and Canada," published by Henry 

 Holt & Co., New York, 1901, from which the following is repro- 

 duced : 



" Helianthus Kellermani Britton, n. sp. Kellerman's Sun- 

 flower. Stem -3 ni. high, very smooth, much branched above, 

 the branches slender. Leaves narrowly elongated-lanceolate to 

 linear-lanceolate, drooping, rather thin, distantly serrate with 

 very small teeth, long-acuminate at the apex, attenuate at the 

 base into short petioles or the upper sessile, scabrate and spar- 

 ingly pubescent on both surfaces, pinnatel}' veined, the lower 

 about 2 dm. long and 1.5 cm. wide ; branches of the inflores- 

 cence pubescent ; bracts of the involucre linear-lanceolate about 

 1.5 cm. long and 1.5 mm. wide at the base, ciliate, long-acu- 

 minate ; rays golden-yellow, i^ cm. long ; chaff of the receptacle 

 linear, Columbus, Ohio. W. A. Kellerman, Sept. 5, 1898." 



Scutellaria Parvula Ambigua ( Nutt. ) Fernald. — In 

 Rhodora, 3 : 198-201, July, 1901, Fernald gives an interesting 

 account of "Scutellaria parvula and S. ambigua." He says 

 that Scutellaria parvula was published by Michaux in 1803, as 

 follows : " S. pusilla ; dense pubescens ; foliis ovalibus, integris, 

 omnibus conformibus ; floribus axillaribus. Obs — Afflnis S. 

 minori. Folia sessilia, parvula, iraa interdum subdentata. Hab. 

 in regione Illinoensi et Canada." In 1825 Sir William Hooker 

 noted another character, namely, " plant everywhere covered 

 with short glandular pubescence." The other form, the smoothish 

 plant, was first described bj- Nuttall in 1818 as Scutellaria am- 

 bigua, having a " stem four to six inches high, smooth, mostly 

 purple." This was, however, reduced to S. parvula, and neg- 

 lected generalh', though Gray described it as " var. mollis." 

 Britton raised it to specific rank and called it S. campestris. Mr. 

 Fernald furnished diagnoses of the two forms, S. parvula Mx. 

 as a species and ambigua as a variety of the former. The distri- 

 bution in Ohio as shown by specimens in the State Herbarium is 

 as follows: Scutellaria parvula Mx., Ottawa, Clarke, Madison 

 and Hamilton counties; Scutellaria parvula ambigua (Nutt.) 

 Fernald, Franklin, Greene, INIontgomerv and Gallia counties. 



The following donations have been received for the zoological 

 museum recently : 



A fine specimen of the Florida tarantula, from Southern 

 Florida, by William F. Saner, of Columbus. 



A specimen of the Gila monster, Heloderma suspectum, Cope, 

 from J. W. Estill, of Oracle, Arizona. 



A specimen of Cassowary from Australia, from Sells' Brothers, 

 circus managers, of this city. 



