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Viola Selkirkit\ Pursh. — Oxford. Rare. 
Hypericum pyramidatum^ Ait, — Common along the Chenango 
River. 
Mollugo veriicillata, L. — Uncommon* Beginning to be introduced 
along railroads. 
Wang 
Trifolium agrarium^ L, — Quite firmly established. 
Melilotus alba^ Lam. — Beginning to be introduced along the 
Chenango River. 
PoUntilla palustris^ Scop. — Borders of ponds, Preston. 
. Linntea borealis, Gronov. — Oxford. Rare. /''^ 
Valerianella radiata^ Dufr. — Oxford. In an alluvial meadow, 
near the old Chenango Canal, and possibly intioduced from it. 
Cichorium IntybuSy L. — Occasional at roadsides, 
Andromeda ligustrina, MuhL — Locally abundant on dry hills. 
Chimaphila maculata^ Puriii.' — Oxford. Rare. 
Pentstefnon pubescens^ Solander. — Not common. 
Veronica Biixbaumii^ Tenore. — Occasional in gardens. 
Monarda fistulosa^ L. — Preston. Locally abundant. 
Mertensia Virginica, D C. — Uncommon. Banks of Chenango 
River. 
Polemonium caruleum, L, — Abundant on the borders of several 
small swamps, and in wet meadows, in Preston and McDonough, 
near East McDonough. 
Euphorbia Peplus, L, — Not common, but abundant where found. 
Humulus Lupulus, L.— Plainly indigenous on the Chenango River. 
Ariscema Dracontium, Schott. — Not common. 
Scheuchzeria paiustrisy L — Rare. Preston. 
Habenaria blephariglottis, Hook. — Rare, Smithville. 
Listera cordata, R. Br, — Rare. Smithville. 
Corallorhiza innata, R. Br. — Rare. Oxford. 
Smilacina irifoUa, Desf.— Rather common in peat-bogs. 
Erythronium albidum, Nutt.— Oxford. In an alluvial meadow near 
the village, a patch of perhaps fifty plants, growing with E, Amen- 
canum, 
Camptosorus rhizophyllus^ Link. — Oxford. Local. 
Boirychium matricaricefolium^ A. Br.-^Common. • 
Botrychium lanceolatum, Angs.— Rather common. 
Fred. V. Coville. 
Botanical Notes. 
Kalmia angustifolia —Mr. Walter Hayden, who has resided for 
some time in the Hudson's Bay Territory, states that the twigs, with 
leaves and flowers of this plant are used by the Cree Indians in 
bowel complaints and as a tonic. Their name for^ the plant is 
'^tsukapuk, ' bitter leaf ' The leaves of the allied Kalmta lahfoba^x^ 
said to possess poisonous, narcotic properties, and to prove^ fatal to 
fheep and some other animals, although they are eaten with impunity 
V deer, goats and partridges. Dr. Barton, m his Collections, 
states that the Indians sometimes use a decotion of the leaves to de- 
stroy themselves. It is pointed out in the U. S. Dispensatory that 
