94 ^ Rhodora [May 
sundew, with rounded leaves and “subcapitate inflorescences of few 
flowers.” It was quite abundant in the marl marshes, and on the 
boggy margins of the lakes, alone, or in company with Drosera rotundi- 
folia L., t Juncus alpinus Vill., and other plants; also on treacherous 
sloughs bordering Deer Pond, with, but outnumbered by t Drosera 
intermedia Hayne. Specimens were sent to the Gray Herbarium and 
Mr. Fernald very kindly identified them as being “exactly” the plant 
which he had “in print for the forthcoming January RHopora.” On 
consulting my herbarium I found that I had previously, July 11, 1902, 
collected immature specimens of this curious plant, on the marl mar- 
gins of a Deer Pond (altitude 1950 ft.), near North Lake, Wilmurt, 
Herkimer County. ‘The companion plants were Drosera intermedia 
Hayne, Xyris montana Ries, and the rare Juncus stygius, var. Ameri- 
canus Bucheñau! This evasive rush known in Somerset County, 
Maine, and mentioned by Mr. Fernald (RHopona, vi. 41 and vii. 8), 
as growing in the Gaspé County bog, has a precarious existence in 
the State of New York. Perch Lake, Jefferson County, the station 
recorded in Paine’s Catalog, 145, and the only one known for years, 
was destroyed long ago. The plant, however, was rediscovered in 
the State by Professor C. H. Peck, “on the marshy borders of a lake” 
in the Adirondacks (27 Rep. N. Y. Mus, Nat. Hist. 113). Dr. Peck 
very discreetly withheld the exact locality. He has lately informed 
the writer that it was in Essex County. Therefore, I am doubly for- 
tunate in recording this plant in Herkimer County, and in the dis- 
covery of the unique sundew in a region far removed from the type 
locality. 
* XYRIS MONTANA Ries. There was a luxuriant growth of this 
species on the borders of White Lake and along its outlet, at Round 
Lake, Deer Pond, and in the beaver meadows. In a peat bog im- 
mense patches were in full bloom July 23. The sight was a beautiful 
one, worth going miles to see, and was ample recompense for the 
inconvenience of a sudden downpour of rain. Amongst the myriads 
of plants, an occasional one was found in which the lowest scale of 
the flowering head was transformed into a bract 5-15 mm. long. It 
may be designated as forma bracteosa. 
* XyRIS CAROLINIANA Walt. Common on the sandy and gravelly 
shores of White Lake, barely in flower on the above date and not de- 
tected elsewhere. An intermediate form with the leaves of AX. mon- 
tana and the heads of X. Caroliniana was common at White Lake, 
