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Notes from Central New lor^i.—Equisetum Uttorale, KUhlewein, 
discovered by Mr. Pringle on the shores of Lake Champlain, Vt, 
grows very abundantly at the foot of the high shady banks of the 
Oswego river, just this side of the Oswego Water Works Company's 
pump-house. The locality, being saturated continually from the 
Company's reservoir above, is entirely covered with the light green, 
branched stems of this long, tender Equisetum, I found good speci- 
mens in fruit as late as the middle of October. I have no doubt 
that the plant grows farther up the river, above Minetto, where the 
low sliores are covered with Hydi-ocotyle uvibellata^ L., and where I 
found, between the island and the canal, a beautiful specimen of 
Lythrmn alatum^ Pursh, 
Since the only locality for Elcocharis quadrangulata^ R. Br., at the 
outlet of Oneida T.ake, is exhausted, it will prove of interest to bota- 
nists in this State to learn of another station for it, this being six 
miles east of this city, at Paddy's Lake, near South Scriba P. O. 
On the eastern shores of this lake, where the water is shallow, this 
rare rush fills the water and forms a safeguard for Bidens Beckii^ 
which grows in the deeper water behind it. Here I found a mon- 
strous form of NympJma tuberosa, Paine. , There were 3-4 perfect 
flowers, each with green sepals and white petals, upon one stem and 
within the usual flower, on different plants. 
Potentilla recta, L., dropped from the later editions of Gray's 
Manual, is perfectly naturalized east of the city, along roadsides and 
in pastures, along with Hieracium aurantiacufn^ L. I have found 
specimens of both these plants even as far as four miles out in the 
country. 
Coreopsis discoidea^ T. & G., abounds on the borders of a pond 
on Lake Ontario, three miles north-east of the city, where are also 
found Cakile Americana, Euphorbia poIygonifoUa^ Lathy r us maritimuSy 
L, palustris, Artemisia Canadensis and Sporobolus cryptatidrus, 
Scirpus lacustris^ L., var. occidentalism Watson, grows on the sandy 
shore of Lake Ontario, west of Twelve-mile Bluff, on the border of a 
small pond. 
To the many rare plants found in Lodi Swamp, Syracuse, N. Y., 
I may add : Solidago lijioides^ Solander, S. neglecta, Torr. and Gray, 
S, Ohioensis, Riddell, Viola renifolia^ Gray, Valeriana sylvatica^ 
Richards, Tofieldia glutinosa^ Willd., Arethusa bulbosa^ L., and Mitella 
nuda, L. I think this is the most interesting small swamp, for bota- 
nists, in Central New York, but, alas ! the new West Shore Railroad 
and the growth of the near city will soon destroy this little botanical 
paradise. 
The much talked of " Cicero Swamp," some six or seven miles 
north-east of Syracuse, was visited by me in July last. This dismal 
forest, visited only by berry-pickers in the fall, and lurnbermen in 
winter, does not pay for the trouble and danger that it requires to 
obtain access to it. Such plants as grow there ( Woodwardia Vir- 
ginica, orchids, Dalibarda^ etc.) can be found easier in more acces- 
sible localities, and far from the numerous rattlesnakes of that green 
desert, from out of which even an expert guide succeeded in finding 
his way only by listening for the soundof a locomotive whistle on the 
