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7]. Westchester County Plants.—Dr. S. B. Mead, of Augusta, Han- 
cock Co., Illinois, has sent us a list of plants which he gathered 
many years ago in Westchester Co., N. Y., and Greenwich, Ct. 
We select some of the most notable. NORTH SALEM: Clematis verti- 
cularis, DC.; Ranunculus abortivus, L., var. micranthus; Coptis tri- 
folia, Salisb.; Dentaria diphylla, L.; Acer dasycarpum, Ehrhart (Oro- 
ton River); Myriophyllum tenellum, Bigelow; Viburnum opulus, L.; 
Iiatris scariosa, Willd.; Solidago rigida, L.; Hottonia inflata, 1; 
Castilleia coccinea, Spreng. ; Dirca palustris, L.; Celtis occidentalis, L.; 
Abies nigra, Poir.; Arethusa bulbosa, L.; Liparis liliifolia, Richard; 
Aplectrum hyemale, Nutt.; Trillium erythrocarpum, Michx. (Peach 
Pond); Chameelirium luteum, Gray ; Juncus pelocarpus, E. Meyer; — 
Pontederia cordata, L., var. angustifolia (Peach Pond) ; Schollera 
graminea, Willd. (Croton River); Eleocharis quadrangulata, R. Br. 
(East Long Pond). PEEKSKILL: Polanisia graveolens, Raf.; Elatie 
Americana, Arnott; Tillwa simpler, Nutt.; Cranizia lineata, Nutt.) 
Limosella aquatica, L., var. tenuifolia, Hoffm.; Sagittaria pusilla, 
Nutt. GREENWICH; Reseda luteola, L. (roadsides) ; Tussilago Far- 
fara, Li.; Hottonia inflata, L. (He found this plant before the year 
1820) ; Galeopsis tetrahit, L.; Hyoscyamus niger, L.; Quercus — 
obtusiloba, Mchx.; Aplectrum hyemale, Nutt. RIDGEFIELD, Ot: — 
Tamarack swamp, about 2 miles from N.E. corner of Town of North 
Salem: Aralia hispida, Mchx.; Andromeda polifolia, L.; Kalmia 
glauca, Ait.; Nemopanthes Canadensis, DC.; Orontium aquaticum, L.; 
Xyris flexuosa, Muhl., Chapm.; Eriophorum alpinum, L. 
72. Trip to Staten Island—Herborizing with a friend, early in July, — 
we were struck with the frequency, near Tottenville, of Diospyr0s Vir. 
giniana, L. We saw some bushes of Pinus inops, Ait., almost stripped 
of their leaves by caterpillars. The most abundant growth of Apr — 
cynum cannabinum, L., that we have met with near the city, was just 4 
beyond Red Bank Light, along the shore, the nearest R.R. station — 
being Pleasant Plains. Teeoma radicans, Juss., is perfectly at home — 
here, spreading over the sand, and climbing the bushes, particularly — 
a group of self-sown Ailanthus glandulosus, Desf., which was in a blaze 
with the showy trumpets. The shore in the same locality wa — 
covered with Artemisia candata, Mchx., which has not before been Te 
ported from the Island. We picked up a pretty sound twig or | 
into a minute crevice of whose bark some grass (Calamagrostis are — 
narwa, probably) had inserted its fibrous root. The fibre had passed : 
between the bark and wood, and had found its way out some inches — 
away on the other side. The openings in both cases were 80 pe 
fectly filled by the fibre of the grass root, that it seemed to have 
bored its way through the hard bark, which must have been one-S 
teenth of an inch in thickness. My companion had ofter noticed 
similar appearances in the Northern woods. 3 
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Sor seven ; and half a dollar for every additional 
copy, per annum, 
local Herbarium, 3, R. 33d St.—Rditor, 224, B. 10th St. 
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