Dec, 1905.] Notes from Ohio State Herbarium. 403 



indicate the group of C. alleni. Within the latter group it 

 stands rather isolated with regard to the male organs, which 

 show a rather primitive conformation, within exception of the 

 distinct backward curve of the distal part. The shape of the 

 rostrum is peculiar on account of the almost triangular outline 

 (similar to C. advena), with hardly any traces of lateral angles 

 in the place of marginal spines. The areola is exceptionally 

 broad, broader than in any of the known species of this group. 

 The most striking character (disregarding the male organs) is 

 furnished by the chelae of the male, since the fingers are unusu- 

 ally short, shorter than in any other species of the genus. Tluis 

 the new species is well characterized by the shape of the rostrum, 

 of the areola, chelipeds, and the m.ale sexual organs. 



Its distribution agrees with that of the alleni-group, in so far 

 as it belongs of the lowlands of the coastal plain of the southern 

 United States. It is the most western locality known for this 

 group, being close to the Texas state-line (disregarding the 

 Mexican C. iviegmanni). 



NOTES FROM THE OHIO ST.A.TE HERBARIUM, V. 



H. A. Gleason. 



A Revised List of the Hypericaceae of Ohio. 



The status of the family Hypericaceae m the catalogues of 

 Ohio plants has been very varied. Dr. J. L. Riddell, in his 

 Synopsis of the Flora of the Western States, listed nine species 

 from Ohio, including among them Hypericum galioides Lam. and 

 H. densiforum Pursh, species which in all probability do not 

 occur within the State. They are both plants of the austro- 

 riparian zone, ranging from New Jersey to Texas along the 

 coastal plain, and inland to Tennessee. Dr. Riddell's Synopsis, 

 as its name indicates was not restricted to Ohio, but included all 

 of the Western States so far as he knew them, and he might 

 possibly have seen specimens from Tennessee. A few other 

 doubtful species have been added to our flora by some of the 

 earlier authors, such as H. adpressum Bart., H. ellipticuni Hook., 

 and Triadenum petiolatum (Walt.) Britton. From these sources 

 they were admitted to the Catalogue of Ohio State Plants by 

 W. A. Kellerman and Wm. C. Werner, and from that to the 

 Fourth State Catalogue by W. A. Kellerman, the latest one pub- 

 lished. Two of the seventeen listed by Kellerman and Werner 

 do not appear in the Fourth Catalogue, H. densiflorum Pursh and 

 H. galioides Lam. Two others were added, H. gymnanthimi 

 Eng. and Gray and H. drummondii (Grev. and Hook.) T. and 

 G., leaving the total number of species still at seventeen. 



