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Larch and Spruce are abundant, while Birch and Poplar 
cover over as a second growth the bared hillsides. The rich 
and varied display of mosses is surprising, and heavy cushions of 
humus formed by their decay hide the rocks with an elastic 
carpet. LP. -GRATACAP. 
Aconitum Noveboracense, Gray.” 
By FRED. V. COVILLE. 
In the Columbia College herbarium are specimens of an 
Aconitum labeled, ‘ Aconitum uncinatum, Greene, Chenango 
Co., N. Y., received May 30, 1857, A. Willard.”’ 
In the BULLETIN of the Torrey Botanical Club for 1885, 
(Vol. xii, p. 52), a single specimen of the same species is re- 
ported to have been found by A. L. Coville at Oxford, Che- 
nango Co., N.Y. Inthe fall of 1885 the writer found at Oxford 
another station, the specimens numbering about sixty. Speci- 
mens of these, together with those from Greene, in the Columbia 
College herbarium, came to the hands of Dr. Gray, who decided, 
as had been before suspected. that the plant was not Aconitum 
uncinatum. He has given it the name Aconttum Noveboracense, 
with the following description : 
ACONITUM NOVEBORACENSE, n.sp. 
Inter A. delphinifolium et A. Columbianum collocandum 
propter racemum angustum subpauciflorum glabrum; caule 
bipedali erecto folioso; foliis membranaceis, 5—7-partitis, seg- 
mentis basi cuneatis trifidis, lobis incisis, lobulis et apicibus lance- 
olatis; casside gibboso-obovata superne late rotundata fere sym- 
metrica, rostro breviusculo porrecto parum descendente; sepalis 
anticis angustis parvis; folliculis oblongis. 
The casque is higher than that of A. delphinifolium, a far 
northwestern species, but broader,-lower, more symmetrical, and 
much less rostrate than that of 4. Columbianum. AG: 
Dr. Augustus Willard, the first to find the plant, has long | 
since died, leaving neither herbarium nor plant-records. The 
original Greene station has therefore been lost, the single plant 
* Read before the Botanical Club of the A. A. A. S., Buffalo meeting, August, 
1886. 
