Dec., 1905.] 
Notes from Ohio State Herbarium. 
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indicate the group of C. alleni. Within the latter group it 
stands rather isolated with regard to the male organs, which 
show a rather primitive conformation, within exception of the 
distinct backward curve of the distal part. The shape of the 
rostrum is peculiar on account of the almost triangular outline 
(similar to C. advena), with hardly any traces of lateral angles 
in the place of marginal spines. The areola is exceptionally 
broad, broader than in any of the known species of this group. 
The most striking character (disregarding the male organs) is 
furnished by the chelae of the male, since the fingers are unusu- 
allv short, shorter than in any other species of the genus. Thus 
the new s])ecies is well characterized by the shape of the rostrum, 
of the areola, chelipeds, and the m.ale sexual organs. 
Its distribution agrees with that of the alleni-grottp, in so far 
as it belongs of the lowlands of the coastal plain of the southern 
United States. It is the most western locality known for this 
group, being close to the Texas state-line (disregarding the 
Mexican C. luiegmanni) . 
NOTES FROM THE OHIO STATE HERBARIUM, V. 
H. A. Gle.-^sox. 
A Revised List of the Hypericace.\e of Ohio. 
The status of the family Hypericaceae m the catalogues of 
Ohio plants has been very varied. Dr. J. L. Riddell, in his 
Svnopsis of the Flora of the Western States, listed nine species 
from Ohio, including among them Hypericum galioides Lam. and 
H. densiflormn Pursh, species which in all probability do not 
occur within the State. They are both plants of the austro- 
riparian zone, ranging from Xew Jersey to Texas along the 
coastal plain, and inland to Tennessee. Dr. Riddell’s Synopsis, 
as its name indicates was not restricted to Ohio, but included all 
of the Western States so far as he knew them, and he might 
possibly have seen specimens from Tennessee. A few other 
doubtful species have been added to our flora by some of the 
earlier authors* such as H. adpressum Bart., H. ellipticum Hook., 
and Triadenum petiolatum (Walt.) Britton. From these sources 
they were admitted to the Catalogue of Ohio State Plants bv 
W. A. Kellerman and Wm. C. Werner, and from that to the 
Fourth State Catalogue by W. A. Kellerman, the latest one pub- 
lished. Two of the seventeen listed by Kellerman and Werner 
do not appear in the Fourth Catalogue, H. densifioruin Pursh and 
H. galioides Lam. Two others were added, H. gymnattthum 
Eng. and Gray and H. drummondii (Grev. and Hook.) T. and 
G., leaving the total number of species still at seventeen. 
