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outline of the tree presenting these innumerable litile crosses against 
the sky, but now they are all turned downwards.’ It thus appears 
that in this species the young cones recurve a few weeks after flow- 
ering. In P. glabra, Walt., this takes place du~ing the first sum- 
mer’s growth, as I have specimens collected in November, with the 
spring fruit recurved. In some species they remain erect or at 
right angles, and in others recurve at the beginning of growth of 
the second season. This peculiarity is worthy of more attention, 
as {t may furnish important specific characters. 3 
“T enclose also a sprig of P. glabra, exhibiting the true leaves — 
very finely. You will observe that, while the true leaves are unusu- — 
ally well developed, the phylloid shoots are mostly wanting in their — 
axils, and that the leaves are finely serrulate, while the phylloids 
are smooth and have entire margins. 
“T also send some fruit of the very rare and curious Carya myrs- 
ticeeformis, Mch., found in swamps in the seaboard districts of this — 
State.” 
60. Hottonia inflata, Ell—I have recently found this rather rare — 
plant in such quantities, and so near New York, as perhaps toren- 
der the locality worthy of record. It grows by the roadside, about 
a mile east of Woodridge Station, on the Hackensack branch of the 
- Erie R. R. The ditch is completely covered with it for several rods 
. length, Near it is also found Glyceria acutiflora, Torr., in abun- — 
ance, 
Bromus sterilis, L., is very abundant about cultivated grounds near — 
Passaic, N.J., and in timber lands Aselepias quadrifolia, Jacq., together 
with A. phytolaceoides, Pursh. Chamelirium luteum, Gray, grows between — 
Hackensack and Lodi, N. J., though not plentiful. hoe 
I found this spring, on Todt Hill, Staten Island, a white variety 
of Silene Pennsylvanicea, Mchx. All the plants I found had white — 
flowers. A s 
245, Broadway. 
Gl. Broussonetia—A few days since, walking down through the — 
Park, between 10 and 11 o’clock a. m., I saw numbers of Broussone. — 
tia trees, in full flower, very cloudy with exposive puffs of pollen, 35 _ 
noticed by Prof. Martin in a last year’s number of the BuLiET™. 
picked up a catkin, just blown off by the wind, and some pufis 
— * T held it in my hand. I. 
une 3d. 
62. New Localities.—Mentha aquatica, L., var. erispa, Benth., at Tarry- 
town. Geranium Robertianom, L., in the cedar groves on Rockaway — 
Beach, W. H. L. Hgopodium podagraria, L., waste places, Prospect 
Park, Merriam. : 
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