92 Rhodora [May 
striate-ribbed body greenish to straw-color, the thinner nerveless 
margin red-brown: anthers linear, 1.5 mm. long: achenes narrowly 
oblong, trigonous, attenuate below, abruptly short-beaked above, 3-4 
mm. long: bristles tawny to copper color. —Sp. 52 (1753); Michx., 
Fl. i. 34 (1803); Pursh, Fl. i. 58 (1814); Ell. Sk. i. 92, t. 4, fig. 1 
(1821) — uncharacteristic ; Big., Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 24 (1824) ; Torr., Fl. 
66 (1824), Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist, N. Y. iii. 338 (1836), and Fl. N. Y. 
ii. 358 (1843); Gray, Man. 529 (1848) ; Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. i. 
273, fig. 643 (1896); Small, Fl. 175 (1903). Lriophoropsis vir- 
ginica, Palla, Bot. Zeit. liv. ab. 1, 150, 151 (1896).— Bogs and 
meadows, Newfoundland to Ontario and Michigan, south to 
Georgia. Fruiting, July to September. 
Var. ALBUM, Gray. Bristles whitish.— Man. ed. 5, 566 (1867); 
Britton & Brown, |. c. — A scarcely noteworthy extreme, Quebec and 
Ontario to Connecticut and New York. 
(To be continued.) 
PLANTS OF ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK, AND 
VICINITY, — I. 
J. V. Haperer, M. D. 
IN the latter part of July, 1904, the writer, in company with Mr. 
L. M. McCormick of New York, spent several days botanizing in the 
town of Forestport, which forms the northeastern corner of Oneida 
County. A number of rare and interesting plants were found includ- 
ing one recently described in RHopona, therefore, the accompanying 
notes may be of interest to its readers. 
'The region visited is on the southwestern border of the great Adi- 
rondack wilderness, about forty miles north of Utica, and includes - 
White, Otter, Round and Long Lakes, Deer Pond, mountainous 
woods, extensive beaver meadows or marl marshes, and sandy fields, 
all within a radius of three miles. A ridge of Archaean rock, extend- 
ing from the northeast to the southwest, divides the region into two 
nearly equal portions. On the southeastern slope is White Lake, 
perfectly clear and transparent, and on the northwestern, the other 
