Vol. HI. No. 10. BULLETIN OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. [New York, October, 1871. 
GENTIANACE®. 
SABBATIA, Adans.—S, paniculata, Pursh ; “In bog meadows, July. 
_ white” Torr. Cat. This is probably a mistake, possibly a white 
variety of some other species.—S, angularis, Pursh ; rather com- 
mon ; N. Y.; abundant on Long and Stony Hills, N. J.; Closter, 
Austin ; New Durham, Le Roy; Staten Island, W. H. L.; Glen- 
dale, L. L, Ruger ; frequent in southern part of the state, State 
Flora.—, stellaris, Pursh ; common in salt meadows; N. Y.; 
sometimes white, Coney Island, Aug. 1865, W. H. L.—X, gracilis, 
Salisb. ; “In wet meadows, New York.” Torr. Cat., but as nothing 
is said of it in the State Flora, we presume that it was a mis- 
take, if indeed this species be distinct from the former.—S, ¢hlo- 
roides, Pursh ; Hackensack meadows; “Brackish bog meadows 
on the Island of New York, and on Long Island.” State Flora ; 
Harlem marshes, Austin. 
ERYTHREA, Pers.—E, ramosissima, Pers., Var. pulehella, Griseb.; wet 
meadows, Flushing, L. 1, State Flora; Tappan and Closter, 
1857 & 1858, Austin. ; 
GENTIANA, L.—6, quingueflora, Lam.; “In woods near Elizabethtown, 
N.J., Eddy.” Torr. Cat.; very common in Orange Co., does not 
occur about Closter, Austin.—. erinita, Froel.; “In low meadows. 
New York. Toteway mountains. New Jersey.” Torr. Cat; 
Closter, common, often abundant on uplands, Austin ; Yonkers, 
' Pooley ; Long Island, Ruger, Coles ; Hackensack marshes ; Long 
Hill, N. J.; Staten Island.—€, ochroleueca, Freel. ; reported by 
Eddy in Torr. Cat., but discredited by Dr. Torrey in State Flora, 
and evidently by Dr. Gray in Manual.—t. Andrewsii, Griseb. ; 
common ; N. Y. , 
BARTONIA, Muhl.—B. tenella, Muhl.; common ; but not reported from 
N.Y. 
OBOLARIA, 1.—0, Virginiea, L.; said to have been found en Orange 
Mt., N. J., but has not been verified. ae 
MENYANTHES, Tourn.—M, trifoliata, L.; a small patch in a bog 1 ania 
S. E. of Closter, Austin ; New Durham, Le Roy ; on N. R. R. o 
N. J. near its junction with E. R. R. I have pointed out, on 
that this plant is dimorphous, W. H. L. ; Suffolk Co., £. 8. M. 
LIMNANTHEMUM, Gmelin.—tL, lacunosum, Griseb.; “In ponds, von 
Island and New Jersey, Eddy.” Torr. Cat.; Wading River, Suf- 
folk Co., E. §. Miller; probably grows elsewhere within our 
limits. 
APOCYNACER | 
VINCA, L.—¥, mmor, L.; Stryker’s Bay, N. Y.; Ridgewood, Flatlands, 
&e., L. L, Ruger ; vid. § 31, Vol. I. 
62, Opuntia Rafinesquii, Engelm.—About the middle of last June I 
gathered some scr ais of Opuntia Refinesqui, on & pret Bere of 
the Highlands, half a mile north of Cold Spring. One fe the plants 
bore a flower-bud that had just commenced to open. his was laid 
upon the table in my room at the hotel, but for three days it per- 
Sistently refused to expand its petals in that shaded place. Then a 
