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])ods glabrous or with a few scattered hairs; plant inclining to 
yellowish-green . ’ ’ 
Dr. Robinson notes that the variety is the common American 
form, the opposite being true in Europe, and that the true species 
is as yet chiefly established in the United States in California, 
although it has now' been found in Maine. The writer would 
here report having collected specimens of the true species along 
IMill Creek, Sandusky, Ohio, July, 1905. 
4. Ribes Cynosbati glabratuni Fernald.^ 
“Leaves pubescent only with scattered hairs, becoming 
glabrate in age.” * * * “Ohio Painesville, 1871 
{H . C. Beardslee) \ Oberlin, June, 1894 (Hicks).” 
Mr. Fernald points out that Ribes oxycanthoides L. has dis- 
tinct characters of pubescence on certain calcareous soils w^hich 
he designates as R. oxycanthoides calcicola Fernald, and further 
states that “A striking difference in the degree of pubescence, 
suggesting that shown in Ribes oxycanthoides is found also in 
Ribes Cynosbati.” The “typical form of R. Cynosbati, with 
soft-pubescent leaves extends through the St. Lawrence basin 
to the Great Lakes and beyond, and southw^ard in the Eastern 
States. An extreme with leaves quite as glabrate as in the true 
R. oxycanthoides is found on the south shore of Lake Erie and on 
the slopes of some of the higher Alleghanies. Whether this 
smooth-leaved extreme is, like the typical smooth-leaved R. 
oxycanthoides, confined primarily to the less calcareous soils, 
the data at hand do not clearly show; but the very glabrate 
phase of the plant seems worthy of distinction.” 
While at O. S. U. the writer recalls having on several occa- 
sions, although with inward misgivings, designated certain very 
glabrous specimens as R. Cynosbati L., particularly specimens 
collected by himself along the Huron River in the western part 
of Huron County and also along the Big Darby between Franklin 
and Madison Counties. It will be noticed that both these 
localities are practically in the Devonian limestone outcrop and 
as nearly as the writer can recall the specimens, which are prob- 
ably to be found in the State Herbarium at O. S. U., correspond 
exactly to Fernald ’s description of R. Cynosbati glabratuni. 
5. Aloites farinosa Greene. “ 
Prof. Greene would accept the genus Aloites of Rafinesque 
for certain of the North American species usually placed in the 
genus Gentiana in our present manuals. He describes among 
others a new species as follows: 
4. Fernald, M. L. Some Lithological Varieties of Ribes. Rhodora, 
7 : 1.53-1.56. Aug., 190.5. 
5. Greene, Edward L. On certain Gcntianaceae. Leaflets, I ; 91-95. 
Dec. 31, 1904. 
