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pods glabrous or with a few scattered hairs; plant inclining to 

 yellowish-green . ' ' 



Dr. Robinson notes that the variety is the common American 

 form, the opposite being true in Europe, and that the true species 

 is as yet chiefly established in the United States in California, 

 although it has now been found in Maine. The writer would 

 here report having collected specimens of the true species along 

 Mill Creek, Sandusky, Ohio, July, 1905. 



4. Ribes Cynosbati glabratum Femald.'* 



"Leaves pubescent only with scattered hairs, becoming 

 glabrate in age." * * * "Ohio Painesville, 1871 

 (H. C. Beardslee); Oberlin, June, 1894 (Hicks)." 



Mr. Fernald points out that Ribes oxycanthoides L. has dis- 

 tinct characters of pubescence on certain calcareous soils which 

 he designates as R. oxycanthoides calcicola Fernald, and further 

 states that "A striking difference in the degree of pubescence, 

 suggesting that shown in Ribes oxycanthoides is found also in 

 Ribes Cynosbati." The "typical form of R. Cynosbati, with 

 soft-pubescent leaves extends through the St. Lawrence basin 

 to the Great Lakes and beyond, and southward in the Eastern 

 States. An extreme with leaves quite as glabrate as in the true 

 R. oxycanthoides is found on the south shore of Lake Erie and on 

 the slopes of some of the higher AUeghanies. Whether this 

 smooth-leaved extreme is, like the typical smooth-leaved R. 

 oxycanthoides, confined primarily to the less calcareous soils, 

 the data at hand do not clearly show; but the very glabrate 

 phase of the plant seems worthy of distinction." 



While at O. S. U. the writer recalls having on several occa- 

 sions, although with inward misgivings, designated certain very 

 glabrous specimens as R. Cynosbati L., particularly specimens 

 collected by himself along the Huron River in the western part 

 of Huron County and also along the Big Darby between Franklin 

 and Madison Counties. It will be noticed that both these 

 localities are practically in the Devonian limestone outcrop and 

 as nearly as the writer can recall the specimens, which are prob- 

 ably to be found in the State Herbarium at O. S. U., correspond 

 exactly to Fernald's description of R. Cynosbati glabratum. 



5. Aloites farinosa Greene." 



Prof. Greene would accept the genus Aloites of Rafinesque 

 for certain of the North American species usuall}^ placed in the 

 genus Gentiana in our present manuals. He describes among 

 others a new species as follows: 



4. Fernald, M. L. Some Lithological Varieties of Ribes. Rhodora, 

 7 : 153-156. Aujj., 1905. 



5. Greene, Edward L. On certain Gentianaceae. Leaflets, I : 91-95. 

 Dec. 31, 1904. 



