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99. Ballast Plants in and near New York City.-In continuation 



of the lists of adventive plants found in and near this city in 1878 

 and 1879, previously reported in the Bulletin (Vol VI, pp. 256, 

 273, and 355), I give below the additional species found "during the 

 past season in the same localities. 



The ballast grounds, however, at Hunter's Point, so fertile last 

 year in species new to this region, and most of the grounds at Go- 

 wanus, have been almost wholly occupied for business uses, so that' 

 scarcely anything could be gathered there. 



At Communipaw Ferry, also, the ballast deposits, have been fre- 

 quently dug up or covered ; and since the middle of July a corps of 

 laborers has been constantly employed in traversing the grounds 

 about the railroad tracks where most of the plants were procured, and 

 in digging up by the roots all traces of vegetation. What has been 



obtained there has been found during the intermission of their rav- 

 ages. 



At the 8th Avenue station and at 107th Street the grounds have 

 been mainly undisturbed, as have a part of the grounds at Com- 

 munipaw and Hoboken. It is somewhat remarkable that so many 

 new species have been found this year on these old deposits, as 

 the seeds must have been brought there with the ballast at least four 



years ago, and would have been noticed had they produced plants 

 last year. ^ ^ 



The greater part of the plants from Communipaw in the following list 

 are, however from neiv ballast earth used for filling about the railroad 

 tracks, though the "wliarf " before referred to has been undisturbed. 



hn. uI'a ''^'"'' I" t^^'' ^'- Martindale, who in previous years 

 has collected so many ballast plants from the deposits about Phila- 

 delphia and Camden, went over our chief localities, and a number of 



■list\?hw'"rf'''-TK ^''^ "°^^"^ by him as indicated in the 

 C^mhnH M V"" ^'^^f^'*^/^ ^^^'" "^^^ '^^ ^^'^^^ ^^ to Mr. Jones, at the 



Vnd^n n^''n' J'^'T' ^"^ *''" determination of some other species, 

 ana to IJ>r. Ihurber for grasses. 



A few corrections should be made in the list for last year 

 ^o. 76, tor Brassica inoneiisis read *B. Cheikanthus Vill 

 Wo. 117, for TrifoHum ekgans read T. hybridum 

 Mo. 182 IS Echium vulgare, with long spreading branches, very different 



in appearance from the usual form. 



No. 2^0 ior Anlhericumramosum, read *AsP.ioDF.LUs ramosus, L. 



(.A. microcarpus, Vis.) ' 



foun^d .!ln;.'?r '^'^"'' Previously reported, upwards of 200 were 



fo nd t:T JT' """^ '^ '^'' 'P'^'^^ b^ ^■^^^"^d that were only 



de Proved mo'reH ' '''''""' 1 "^^"'^■"/'^ ^^^'^^ ^'^^ Gowanus since 

 tht vear ^r^h^ ^ "^^^^-.^^^^hs of h/st year's species re-aopeared 



mis year at the same localities. * 



in //rAvr.^''"''''"'"^, ^''^ '''" P'^'^t' "°t ^" ^^'^f^ Manual are printed 

 Inown to tVe^wr^e ^'r^^'f' '''' '""^-^ designating such as L not 

 this coumrv TulT f' ^''" Previously published as found in 

 (11 ^Z7l. iii"" "f J:^!!'-.^^>: -P-t^d -l^- our local limits 



