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REPORT OF THE STATE HERBARIUM. 



BY W. A. KELLERMAN, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. 



The State Herbarium in charge of the Botanical 

 Department of the Ohio State University, has been 

 steadily growing- for six years and now includes over 

 ten thousand mounted sheets of phanerogans and 

 vascular cryptogams. It contains also a large number 

 of specimens of the lower plants, but these are only 

 partially mounted and arranged and not as yet counted. 

 The incorporation into the herbarium of a large 

 number of specimens collected recently is now being 

 rapidly carried on. While the author's labor on this 

 State collection may be indicated to some extent by 

 the fact that his name as collector occurs on the 

 labels of nearly four thousand of the higher plants 

 and many of those of the lower plants, it must be 

 understood that assistance has been rendered by a 

 large number of persons throughout the State, and 

 sincere thanks for these important contributions are 

 hereby tendered. 



The herbarium of the late Joseph F. James was 

 purchased by the State University, and that collection 

 furnished about five hundred and fifty specimens for 

 the State Herbarium. The next largest collector so far 

 represented is Mr. Wm. C. Werner, formerly an 

 assistant in the Botanical Department. Previous to 

 the past season the persons contributing over one 

 hundred specimens were. Mrs. ". J. Spence (354 

 specimens). E. L. Fullmer (346), E. Wilkinson (310), E. 

 E. Bogue (309), Ed Claassen (299), A. W^etzstein (273), 

 E. L. Mosely (222), J. A. Sanford (160), Wm. Krebs 

 and Claassen (136). H. Jaske (131), W. H. Aiken (112), 

 and J. S. Vandewoort (105). 



