June, 1906.] Key to the Ohio Virhurnums. 551 



extinct in the state ?/^ If it is extinct what has caused it to 

 become so? 



I am pleased to record for the hrst time the occurrence in the 

 state of the Prairie White-footed Mouse, Peromyscus michi- 

 ganensis. Specimens were taken in Madison County in 1905, by 

 turning over logs in a low woods pasture. 



The Jumping Mouse, Zapus hudsonius americanus, was 

 observed to be abundant in certain parts of Summit County last 

 summer. Mr. Eugene F. Cranz captured a number of specimens 

 at Ira. They were found mostly in fields of standing grain and 

 hay. 



The Badger, Taxidia taxus, has been reported as exitnct in 

 the state, but observation the past summer proves it to still be 

 present in northwestern Ohio. In some sections it is common. 



Last year at the meeting of the Academy the late Prof. A. A. 

 Wright, gave a paper on the Alleghenian Least Weasel as a 

 member of the Ohio fauna. Since that time a specimen has 

 been received from Summit County, taken by E. F. Cranz who 

 procured it in April, 1905, from a shock of fodder. This specimen 

 was a female in dark pelage. A male trapped December 25, 

 1905, at Suffield, Portage County, by Orlando Wise, was sent to 

 the O. S. U. Museum by Oscar Himebaugh. The color is white, 

 with the exception of a few reddish patches on the back. So 

 far there are records for six Ohio specimens of this interesting 

 species. 



KEY TO THE OHIO VIBURNUMS IN THE WINTER CON- 

 DITION. 



I Robert A. Young. 



Viburnum L. Shrubs or small trees with opposite leaf scars, 

 the leaf scars meeting or connected by a line ; twigs gray, brown 

 or reddish; stellate pubescent or glabrous, sometimes peltate 

 dotted; terminal bud present or tips withering; axillary buds 

 single, visible scales 1-3 pairs, the outer pair short or completely 

 covering the bud; leaf scars V-shaped to broadly U-shaped or 

 heart-shaped, the bundle scars 3; stipular scars none; pith small, 

 cylindrical or nearly so, solid. 



Some of the species are very difficult to separate unless dry 



leaves are present. 



1. Buds completely covered by the outer pair of scales, some with a mi- 

 nute pair at the base. 2. 



1. Outer pair of bud scales about half the length of the bud or less; 



twigs of the season scattered stellate pubescent. 5. 



2. Twigs of the season glabrous, pellate dotted and light colored; buds 



very long, slender and pointed. V. cassinoides L. Withe-rod. 



2. Twigs of the season glabrous. 3. 

 2. Twigs of the season densely stellate pubescent. 4. 



