FEB 2 s 1910 
The Ohio V\>jituralist, 
PUBLISHED BY 
The Biological Club of the Ohio State University. 
library 
NEW YOR 
botanica 
garden. 
Volume X. FEBRUARY, 1910. 
No. 4. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Hine— Ohio Species of Mice 65 
Detmers— Medicinal Plants of Ohio (concluded) 73 
Vickers — List of Ferns of Mahoning Co. with Special Reference to Mill Creek I’ark S6 
OHIO SPECIES OF MICE. 
James S. Hine. 
Two different papers enumerating the Ohio species of mam- 
mals known as mice have been published. Jared P. Kirtland, 
in the Ohio Geological Survey Report for 1838, named four 
species as follows: house mouse, common white-footed mouse, 
jumping mouse and the meadow mouse. All of these are 
common in the state today, although the jumping mouse is 
reported as rare in some localities, but in other localities it 
certainly is rather plentiful. About the year 1878 A. W. Brayton 
of Irvington, Indiana furnished the manuscript for a report on 
the Mammals of Ohio, in which he listed the house mouse, white- 
footed mouse, rice field mouse, pine mouse, common meadow 
mouse, prairie meadow mouse, and jumping mouse. Two other 
species, namely: Cooper’s mouse and the northern golden mouse 
were mentioned as of probable occurrence within our limits. 
There appears to be some mistake about the record for the 
prairie meadow mouse for no specimens have been reported in 
recent years and the material on which Brayton bases his record 
turns out to be the pine or mole mouse. Cooper’s mouse has 
been taken in various parts of the state and in some places is 
known to be common, but no record for the golden mouse is yet 
reported. Of the nine species mentioned by Brayton therefore, 
further records of seven are at hand. Bravton’s paper was 
published in the Report of the Ohio Geological Survey, 1882, 
Volume IV. 
The collecting that has been done in more recent years has 
brought together Ohio material of at least nine species and 
varieties, while the work in adjoining and neighboring states 
suggests the possibility that four or more additional may be 
procured when further work has been done and all favorable 
localities investigated. 
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