BULBS 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Vol. 11.) New-York, January, 1872. (No. 1. 
L. Blitum capitatum, L.,—I have received from. Delhi, Delaware Co., 
and hear that in that region it is not uncommon. I believe that it 
grows also in the neighborhood of Chester and Goshen, Orange 
Co., and I am very sure I have heard of its being found in Rock- 
land Co. I have also heard of and seen it all the way from Roches- 
ter to Rome. 
Blitum Bonus-Henricus, Reich.,—I have found at Blue Point, L. L, 
near Throgs Neck, and at other places in the S. E. part of West- 
chester Co. In Central and West N. Y. it is not at all uncommon. 
At Auburn, Aurelius, Clinton, Oriskany, and many other places I 
have seen it abundant. It loves the neighborhood of old wood piles, 
and corners of fences, and situations under the beams and around 
the posts of open sheds. 
Nalsola Kali, L.,—I have seen growing on the H. R. R. R. track, 
where it was daily passed over by the locomotives, all the way from 
_ Tarrytown to Sing Sing. It is quite common as far up the river 
as Tarrytown. I have often seen it growing in the interstices of 
timber wharves, high up above the water, where the wheels of car- 
mages disturbed it continually. 
Polygonum amphibium, L.—The two varieties grow larger in and on 
the shores of the outlets of the lakes of Western N. Y. than I have 
ever seen them elsewhere. On the shore of the Owasco Outlet the 
plant very frequently grows in a patch lying partly in and partly 
out of the water, all apparently the same in immediate origin. 
hat growing on the shore and for a foot or two from the edge 
Standing in the water is the Var. terrestre ; then, beyond it, trails 
in the water the Var. aquaticum. I cannot believe that there is any 
ing permanent in the varieties, but am of the opinion that the 
Same plant will change its form according to circumstances. There 
are also intermediate forms which it is hard to class under either — 
Variety. 
., Asplenium pinnatifidum, Nutt.—I learn that the Philadelphian local- 
ity of this plant is entirely destroyed, a new road or drive having = 
just been blasted through by the Fairmount Park Commission. oe 
The fern grew in crevices on the steep sides of the cliff along the che 
Schaylkill in the rear of Laurel Hill Cemetery. The taking off of 
the face of the cliff has entirely destroyed the locality and robbed 
armount Park of its rarest plant. It is to be hoped that a few spores 
ve made their way to some new crevice, and that the region 
may be replenished. Jan. 19th. Pk Teh 
