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69; Philip Frederick Gmelin (1721-1768) published numerous 
works las did John Frederick Gmelin (1748-1804) who was a 
noted professor at Tuebingen and Goettingen. Ferdinand Gotlob 
Gmelin (1782-1848) was a professor at Tuebingen and the author 
of De Plantarum Bxhalationihus. Carl Christian Gmelin, phy- 
sician to Carlsrhue, published a work on ferns in 1784. Christian 
Gotlob Gmelin (1792-1860) was a chemist and botanist at Tuebin- 
gin. Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin traveled and made extensive collec- 
tions of plants in south Russia and the Caspian Sea region. P. 
Gmelin published in 1867 a systematic work reviewing the system 
of Jussieu, De Candolle and Eudlicher. W. Gmelin of Stuttgart 
was also well known as a botanical collector, several specimens of 
his collection being in the writer’s herbarium. The Linnaean genus 
Gmelina, a verbenaceous genus of some eight species of southeast- 
ern Asia, Malay Archipelago and tropical Australia commemorates 
the name, while Lithospermum Gmelini (Michx.) Hitch., which is 
now the accepted name of the L. hirtum of Eehmann, a common 
Iowa plant, commemorates the work of an early collector in this 
country. Dr. Gmelin’s collections in the three states previously 
mentioned were made as follows: St. Cloud, Minnesota, 1874- 
5; St. Paul, 1875; Guttenberg, Iowa, 1876-7; Fountain City, Wis- 
consin, 1880-1 ; DaCrosse, Wisconsin, 1882 ; Elkader, Iowa, 1880- 
94. 
In the following list the synonomy used is that of Gray’s Man- 
ual, 7th edition. 
FILICES 
Adiantum pedatum L. St. Paul, Minnesota. 
Camptosorus rhizophyllus Link. Elkader, and Guttenberg, Iowa. 
Onoclea sensihilis L. St. Paul. 
Botrichium virginianuni (L) Sw. St. Paul. 
PINACEAE 
Juniperus virginiana L. St. Cloud, Minnesota. 
ALISMACEAE 
Sagittaria arifolia Nutt. Elkader. 
GRAMINEAE 
Echinochloa xrus-galli (L) Beauv. St. Cloud. 
Sorghastrum nutans (L) Nash. St, Cloud. 
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx) Torr. St. Cloud. 
Eragrostis megastachya (Koeler) Link. St. Cloud. 
Elymus canadensis L. St. Cloud. 
CYPERACEAE 
Cyperus ferax Richards. St. Cloud; Guttenberg, Iowa. 
C. rivularis Kunth. Fountain City, Wisconsin. 
Scirpus atrocinctus Fernald. St. Paul. 
S. atromrens Vahl. St. Paul. 
