March, 1906.] Species for Ohio in Recent Literature. 495 



Aloites foliosa Greene. "Habit of the last, (^4. mesochora 

 Greene, ivhich see below) with very ample foliage: leaves 23^2 

 inches long, half as broad; umbellate flower clusters all sub- 

 tended by a pair of well developed leaves like an involucre ; 

 flowers smaller than in the last; calyx-tube broader, segments 

 partly subulate, partly exactly lanceolate, all very acute, the 

 longest half as long as the corolla, sinuses open, rather obtuse; 

 segments of corolla with short setaceous point." 



"Known onlv from along Vermillion River, northern Ohio; 

 E. L. Moseley, 1898." 



Partly as a further explanation to the last species and partly 

 because from its distribution it might possibly be expected to 

 occur in Ohio it may be well to note also: 



Aloites mesochora Greene. 



"Larger plant than the last (A. occidentalis (Gray) Greene — 

 Gentiana quinquefolia occidentalis (Gra}') Hitchcock) with 

 larger foliage and larger flowers but of less branching habit, 

 large plants often simple save as to the axillary pedunculiform 

 branches ; calyx with extremely narrow tube, the unequal seg- 

 ments partly linear, partly lanceolate, all setaceously acuminate, 

 the longest of notably less than half the length of the corolla, 

 the sinuses not closed, acute; corolla lobes with unusually long 

 and slender acumination." 



"Northern Indiana, also adjacent Michigan and westward to 

 Illinois and Dakota." 



The plant here referred to as Aloites foliosa Greene is evi- 

 dently^ the same as the one referred to by Prof. Moseley in his 

 Sandusky Flora as "Gentiana quinqueflora Lam. Vermillion 

 River; frequent on the east fork. Margaretta Ridge; rare," and 

 in this connection one is led to think that perhaps some of the 

 specimens in the State Herbarium at O. S. U. and reported in 

 the Fourth State Catalogue of Ohio Plants as Gentiana quin- 

 quefolia L. may also be Prof. Greene's new Aloites foliosa. 



Carnegie Museum, Dec. 26, 1905. 



