Nov.,* 1905. }>' , Xofes from Ohio State Herbarium. 
397 
Since the homology of the stamen and the bract subtending- 
the seed bearing scale is evident, the contention is still Concern- 
ing the homology of this extra structure the ovuliferous scale. 
As an excellent summary of the numerous theories relating -to 
this subject is given in Coulter and Chamberlain’s Morphology of 
Spermatophytes, and as their repetition here vould be entirely 
bevond the scope of this article, they may for convenience be 
condensed into the two following simple propositions: 
First. The carpellate cone represents a regular branch; the 
bract represents a leaf ; the ovuliferous scale represents an 
axillary stem with one or with two leaves all greatly reduced and 
modified and it may or may not also represent the outer 
integument. 
Second. The carpellate cone represents a dwarf branch like 
the staminate cone; and the ovuliferous scale is a ligular or 
chalazal outgrowth of the megasporophyll or carpellate bract 
which corresponds to the microsporophyll. 
The writer is inclined to favor the second view not only from 
the study of this monstrosity if any great importance is to be 
attached to it but also for the same reason that Bessey gives in 
his article in the Botanical Gazette, 33:157, namely, that were 
we to favor the first view we would have to assume that the 
megasporangiate cones and sporophylls in the closely related 
families of Finales, in some of which there is no ovuliferous 
scale, are not homologous. 
NOTES FROM THE OHIO STATE HERBARIUM. IV. 
H. A. Gr.r.Asox. 
During the past year much of the unidentified herbarium 
material has been studied, and a number of particular genera 
have been worked over, with the result that several species of 
flowering plants and ferns are to be added to the state flora. A 
list of those sj^ecies with notes on their distribution and their 
distinguishing characters is here given. Some of them have 
already been reported in this journal, but for sake of complete- 
ness are listed again. In every case the writer is responsible for 
their identification. 
36b. Asplenium parvidum Mart, and Gal. Ohio Nat. 5:206. 
460a. Care.y alata jerrugi)iea Fernald. Along Big Darbv. 
Creek in Madison County, Professor W. A. Kellerman. The 
variety, as described by Fernald (Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and 
Sci. 37:477. 1902.) differs from the species in the spikelets tawnv 
colored from the first, the narrower ovate perigynia about 2.;> 
mm. wide, and the ovate-lanceolate scales. The species has- 
