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Catalogue of the flowering Plants, Ferns and Fungi growing in the 
vicinity of Cincinnati. By Joseph F. James. (A.) 
In Jour. Cincin. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. ii., 1878. (Additions and 
corrections by Davis L. James. (B.) Vol. iv., 1881. 
Henry County. 
List of Trees characteristic of Henry County. By N. H. Winchell. 
(A) 
In Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio, Vol. ii., p. 416. 1874. 
Miami, Montgojuery, Butler, Warren and Hamilton Counties. 
Flora of the Miami Valley. By A. P. Morgan. (A.) 
Published by the Literary Union, Dayton, Ohio. 
i6mo, pamphlet, pp. 68. Dayton, 1878. 
(List includes Phcenogams, Ferns, Mosses, Liverworts, Lichens and 
Fungi.) 
W. R. G. 
N. L. B. 
Notes on a Botanical Excursion to Sam's Point, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
Sam's Point is a rocky promontory of the Shawangunk Mountains^ 
a.uout five miles east of Ellenville, New York, overlooking the Wall- 
kill Valley between the Shawangunk and Highland ranges, at a 
height, as marked on a ledge at its summit, of 2,340 feet above the 
sea. This promontory is composed of a very close conglomerate 
rock, made up of white quartz pebbles, nearly horizontally bedded, 
the top being a flat table-land. Geologically, this rock is known as 
the Shawangunk Grit, the equivalent of the Oneida Conglomerate of 
the Upper Silurian strata. Thinly bedded, Lower Silurian shales of 
the Hudson River Group, underlie this conglomerate rock, forming 
the base of the hill on which it rests. 
The woods surrounding this table-land are made up of the pitch 
pine^ with some few common deciduous trees, and an occasional 
white pine and hemlock. The undergrowth of these woods consists 
of Quercus ilicifolia, Wang., Nemopanthes Canadensis, D. C, Samhi- 
cus pubens^ Michx., Rhodora Canadensis, L., Viburnum pubescens, 
Pursh, V. nudii?n, L., Cornus circinata, L'Her., and C sericea, L., 
^cer spicatum, Lam., and A. Pennsylvanicum, 1..,' Aralia hispida, 
Michx., Viburnum lantanoides, Michx., and great quantities of Gay- 
htssacia resinosa^ T. & G., and of Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum^ Lam. 
My visit was made in the latter part of August when little else 
than Composit^e was in bloom. Besides the commoner plants of this 
order, Solidago squarrosa^ Muhl., and S. latifolia, L., were plenty. A 
few specimens of Geniiana quinqueflora, Lam., were found towards the 
base of the hill. SpirafUhes gracilis, Bigelow, grows abundantly 
^n^ong the bushes, both on the table-land and at its base, often with 
but a single tuber, instead of '' roots clustered " as in its specific 
description. Two specimens of Botrychiuvi lajiceolatmn, Angst., 
were found in woods near the Point. 
The flora of the top of this elevated ridge is characterized by an 
abundant growth of Finus rigida. Miller, very much stunted in 
growth, fruiting indeed at two feet from the ground and forming low, 
st^agghng bushes, few oi them more than five feet high, the leaves 
