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specimens are devoid of chaff, possibly through age. The indusia 
are large and firm, irregularly orbicular, and much depressed in the 
middle. 2k, 
§ 362. A few Plants of the North Woods.—During the month of 
August, I spent two weeks on Beaver lake, Watson, No. 4, Lewis 
Co., N. Y. It lies 18 miles east of Lowville, the point of departure 
from the Black River R. R., and 6 miles deep in the woods. Beaver 
River flows into the upper end of the lake, and takes its departure 
again from the lower end, the expanse between occupying about 2 
miles and being about one mile wide. In the same neighborhood 
are numerous smaller lakes, a beaver dam, and several beaver mead- 
ows. Earlier in the season this should be an excellent region for 
botanizing, but in the latter part of August the drought had parched , 
the entire under growth of the woods and clearings, so that it was 
only by the waterside that one could find plants in blossom. It #as 
in this locality that Mrs. Barnes, of Syracuse, discovered that abun- 
dance of Botrychium simplex, which furnished Mr. Davenport with 
much of the material for his monograph. Unfortunately I was just 
a month too late for this rarity. But there were other things of quite 
as much interest and scarcity, particularly for this State. To begin 
with the lake; there were three white water lilies, Mymphaea odora- 
fa, Ait., the var. minor, Sims, and WV. tuderosa, Paine. Much rarer, 
however, than either of these was Vuphur luteum, var. pumilum, Gray, 
which grows here in great profusion. Another scarce plant which is 
- found in the lake is Myriophyllum tenellum, Bigelow, the stems of 
which often grow 18 inches long. Besides these, the bays are filled 
with Brasenia peltata, Pursh, and Limnanthemum lacunosum, Grise- 
bach. The shores are frequently lined with Ariocaulon septangulare, 
Withering, and on the muddy margin of one of the bays grows that: 
singular and delicate little plant U/tricularia resupinata, Greene. I 
do not remember to have seen this reported from any point in the 
interior of the State, nor am I aware of any other locality for it within 
our borders save the one reported by Mr. E.S. Miller on Long 
Island. Utricularia intermedia, Hayne, also grows in the sphagnum 
bogs. In a large bay on Francis Lake, about a mile east from 
Beaver Lake, we found the water filled with the interesting U¢ricu- 
laria purpurea, Walter, which is also reported by Mr. Miller as a na- 
tive of Wading River, but for which I have heard of no locality in 
the central part of the State. Another U¢ricu/aria grew in the sphag- 
num just at the edge of the water, which I took to be U. gibba, L., 
but did not have opportunity to examine it carefully. Others could 
doubtless be found by a more thorough search. Drosera longifolia, 
L., here replaces D. rotundifolia, L. in all the bogs. It was rather 
late to detect many orchids, although Hadenaria tridentata, Hooker, 
and /. blephariglottis, Hook., were still in blossom around the bor- 
ders of one the ponds. The rarest of the order gathered was H. ob- 
tusata, Richardson, and it was still in fair condition. It grew in a 
dark piece of woods bordering on a beaver meadow, where there was 
very little underbrush and where the ground was moist but not 
swampy. The keen eyes of Mrs. Barnes first detected this plant 
when a small party of us were out on a botanical tramp, and we soon 
