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Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol. 1, No. 8 
Chrysemys marginata (Agassiz). Columbus aud Cedar Point. 
The species picta does not occur in central Ohio — at least west of 
Licking Reservoir. One specimen has the normal three dorsal 
plates broken up into six which alternate with each other, three 
being on either side of the median line. 
Clemmys guttatus (Sell.). Columbus and Licking Reservoir. 
Emydoidea blandingi Holb. Columbus and Sandusky. 
Terrapene Carolina (Linn.). Very numerous at Sugar Grove. 
Found in sand on Cedar Point. 
Summary for Reptiles:— Families 8; genera 22; species 30. 
A PRESERVING BOX FOR PLANTS. 
Edo Claassen. 
As the time for botanists has arrived when they will depart for 
some time from their work at home and walk over fields and into 
the forests to collect plants and flowers new to them, I have thought 
it would be interesting and useful to describe a box in which they 
may preserve for several days, the collected plants and keep them 
from shriveling, particularly if the same are quite large, and exceed 
in size the usual small collecting box. As I had one made to order 
and know by experience the valuable service it did me, I do not 
hesitate to recommend it highly. It is well known that many 
druggists buy their glycerine and castor oil in five gallon cans, for 
which, when empty, they have no further use. The botanist, there- 
fore, may go to such a druggist, procure two of the above cans, if 
possible of heavy tin and with flat sides, have the tinsmith take off 
their upper parts and solder the cans together, after having cut out 
of each of them a rectangular piece as long and wide as necessary 
to give room fora door and after having trimmed any inside edges. 
The door is then made from the two pieces cut out, (or from a new 
piece) with the addition of several strips of tin, so that it may over- 
lap and close tightly, and of the necessary hinges and hasp to open 
and fasten the door. One of the original wire handles of the cans is 
fastened in a similar manner as before on the top of the box and the 
preserving box is ready for use, as soon as it had received two coat- 
ings of asphaltum varnish inside and two of paint outside. Any 
vessel of of suitable size and containing water should then be put 
into the box, which will furnish the moisture for the roots or the 
lower ends of the plants and at the same time for the air surround- 
ing these. The dimensions of the box in question can easily be 
determined by the botanist himself, but for those not wishing to do 
so, I may be allowed to add, that the length of the box should be 
about twenty-five inches, the original width of the cans remaining 
unchanged. The door should commence at about three inches from 
the bottom, reach up to two or two and one-half inches from the top 
and have a width of six or six and one-half inches. 
Cleveland , Ohio. 
