Jan., 1902 .] 
Minor Plant Notes, No. 4 . 
181 
Dr. Britton has described this sunflower in his 1 ‘ Manual of the 
Flora of the Northern States and Canada,” published by Henry 
Holt & Co., New York, 1901, from which the following is repro- 
duced : 
‘‘Helianthus Kellermani Britton, n. sp. Kellerman’s Sun- 
flower. Stem ?3 m. high, very smooth, much branched above, 
the branches slender. Leaves narrowly elongated-lanceolate to 
linear-lanceolate, drooping, rather thin, distantly serrate with 
very small teeth, long-acuminate at the apex, attenuate at the 
base into short petioles or the upper sessile, scabrate and spar- 
ingly pubescent on both surfaces, pinnately veined, the lower 
about 2 dm. long and 1.5 cm. wide ; branches of the inflores- 
cence pubescent ; bracts of the involucre linear-lanceolate about 
1.5 cm. long and 1.5 mm. wide at the base, ciliate, long-acu- 
minate ; rays golden-yellow, L cm. long ; chaff of the receptacle 
linear. Columbus, Ohio. W. A. Kellerman, Sept. 5, 1898.” 
Scutellaria Parvula Ambigua (Nutt.) Fernald. — In 
Rhodora, 3 : 198-201, July, 1901, Fernald gives an interesting 
account of ‘‘Scutellaria parvula and S. ambigua.” He says 
that Scutellaria parvula was published by Michaux in 1803, as 
follows : 11 S. pusilla ; dense pubescens ; foliis ovalibus, integris, 
omnibus conformibus ; floribus axillaribus. Obs — Affinis S. 
minori. Folia sessilia, parvula, ima interdum subdentata. Hab. 
in regione Illiuoensi et Canada.” In 1825 Sir William Hooker 
noted another character, namely, “ plant everywhere covered 
with short glandular pubescence.” The other form, the smoothish 
plant, was first described by Nuttall in 1818 as Scutellaria am- 
bigua, having a “ stem four to six inches high, smooth, mostly 
purple.” This was, however, reduced to S. parvula, and neg- 
lected generally, though Gray described it as “ var. mollis.” 
Britton raised it to specific rank and called it S. campestris. Mr. 
Fernald furnished diagnoses of the two forms, S. parvula Mx. 
as a species and ambigua as a variety of the former. The distri- 
bution in Ohio as shown by specimens in the State Herbarium is 
as follows: Scutellaria parvula Mx., Ottawa, Clarke, Madison 
and Hamilton counties ; Scutellaria parvula ambigua (Nutt.) 
F'crnald, Franklin, Greene, Montgomery and Gallia counties. 
The following donations have been received for the zoological 
museum recently : 
A fine specimen of the Florida tarantula, from Southern 
Florida, by William F. Sauer, of Columbus. 
A specimen of the Gila monster, Helouerma suspectum, Cope, 
from J. W. Estill, of Oracle, Arizona. 
A specimen of Cassowary from Australia, from Sells’ Brothers, 
circus managers, of this city. 
