106 Rhodora [Jury 
NAJAS MARINA L. (N. major All.). This widely dispersed species 
of brackish or fresh waters of tropical and temperate regions is rare 
in North America and in the Atlantic States is as yet known north 
of Florida only from central New York. From Morong's treatment! 
- it would be inferred that the species is there confined to the northern 
end of Cayuga Lake and adjacent marshes, but there are other 
long-known stations. In 1864 the species “ was discovered in Onondaga 
Lake, first by Judge G. W. Clinton, on the northern border of the 
lake (between Salina and Liverpool), and soon after by Mr. John A. 
Paine, Jr., on its western side.’ In his Catalogue, Paine? gives a 
very detailed account of the Onondaga Lake stations. The plant is 
found in streams entering the lake; but “It abounds, however, in 
the lake, in water ten to twenty-five feet deep; most luxuriantly 
along the edge of a sudden descent of the bottom, at a distance from 
shore. When the water is clear and still, the plants can be seen 
growing on the bottom, branching in all directions from the root. 
But the best specimens come from the deepest water, out of sight." 
In 1912 Mrs. Goodrich* reported it also from Tulley Lake, Onondaga 
Co. In 1865 the second New York region for the species was dis- 
covered, in Irondequoit Bay of Lake Ontario. Material from this 
region was sent to Dr. Gray by C. M. Booth but in recording the 
discovery Gray? accredited it to E. J. Pickett. The stations about 
the northern end of Cayuga Lake are either in shallow water of marshes 
or in lake-water, while in Wayne County Peck found it in “Seneca 
river near Savannah. "^ 
There are reports of the plant from Michigan and Minnesota but 
no material from the former region has been examined by the writer, 
although the Minnesota record (Lake Minnewaska, B. C. Taylor) 
is supported by good material; but, in view of the somewhat wide 
dispersal of Najas marina in the subsaline waters of central New 
York, it is certain that we should watch for it in similar habitats 
nearer the Atlantic coast. The probability of finding it along our 
coast is emphasized by the occurrence with it in or about Onondaga 
! Morong, Mem. Torr. Bot. Cl. iij. No. 2: 58, 59 (1893). 
? Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. ser. 2, xxxix. 107 (1865). 
3J. A. Paine, Cat. Pl. Oneida Co. and Vic. 80 (1865). 
* L. L. H. Goodrich, Fl. Onondaga Co. 30 (1912). 
* Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. ser. 2, xli. 131 (1866). 
¢ Peck, N. Y. State Mus, Nat. Hist. Ann. Rep. 1872, 88 (1874). 
