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Aloites foUosa Greene. “Habit of the last, (H. mesochora 
Greene, which see below) with very ample foliage: leaves 234 
inches long, half as broad; umbellate flower clusters all sub- 
tended by a pair of well developed leaves like an involucre ; 
flowers smaller than in the last; calyx-tube broader, segments 
partly subulate, partly exactly lanceolate, all very acute, the 
longest half as long as the corolla, sinuses open, rather obtuse; 
segments of corolla with short setaceous point.” 
“Known only from along Vermillion River, northern Ohio; 
E. L. Moseley, 1898.” 
Partly as a further explanation to the last species and partly 
because from its distribution it might possibly be expected to 
occur in Ohio it may be well to note also : 
Aloites mesochora Greene. 
“Larger plant than the last (A. occidentalis (Gray) Greene — 
Gentiana quinquefolia occidentalis (Gray) Hitchcock) with 
larger foliage and larger flowers but of less branching habit, 
large plants often simple save as to the axillary pedunculiform 
branches; calyx with extremely narrow tube, the unequal seg- 
ments partly linear, partly lanceolate, all setaceously acuminate, 
the longest of notably less than half the length of the corolla, 
the sinuses not closed, acute; corolla lobes with unusually long 
and slender acumination.” 
“Northern Indiana, also adjacent Michigan and westward to 
Illinois and Dakota.” 
The plant here referred to as Aloites foliosa Greene is evi- 
dently the same as the one referred to by Prof. Moseley in his 
Sandusky Flora as “Gentiana quinqueflora Lam. A'ermillion 
River; frequent on the east fork. Margaretta Ridge; rare,” and 
in this connection one is led to think that perhaps some of the 
specimens in the State Herbarium at O. S. U. and reported in 
the Fourth State Catalogue of Ohio Plants as Gentiana quin- 
quefolia L. may also be Prof. Greene’s new Aloites foliosa. 
Carnegie ^Museum, Dec. 26, 190.5. 
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