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POTENTILLA PARADOXA Nutt. 
This plant occurs in large quantities at the station long known 
for it near the outlet of Braddock’s Bay, just east of Manitou 
Beach, Lake Ontario, N. Y. It differs from the European P. sw- 
pina, \., in its stouter habit, larger flowers, thicker and less deeply 
dentate leaf-segments. The species, whose centre of distribution 
lies somewhere west of the Mississippi, is one of a considerable 
number of plants of similar range which extend eastward through 
the region of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. Among 
these may be mentioned Eleocharis acuminata, which occurs as far 
east as Anticosti, Corispermum hyssopifolium, Polygonum Hart- 
wright and Vaccinium ovalifolium which Prof. Macoun reports 
from Quebec. 
Gatium Kamprscuaricum Steller. ; 
This is among the species collected by me on the slopes of Mt. . 
Marcy, N. Y., at elevations from 2,000 to 4,000 feet, in the au- 
tumn of 1892. I found but a single patch containing several 
hundred plants along the trail from Adirondack Lodge to the 
summit of Marcy at about 3,500 feet altitude. This was not un- 
€xpected, for a scrap of this species has long been in our herba- 
Tium bearing the label «Indian Pass, near MclIntire’s, W. F. 
- Macre, August 13, 1839.” I found the plant in very old fruit and 
secured only a few good specimens. In this condition its elong- 
ated pedicels distinguished it readily from any form of G. circe- 
#ans Michx. to which it has been referred by some authors as a 
variety. 
The plant of Oregon and Washington, which was regarded as Sees 
con-specific with this by Dr. Gray, appears to me distinct from 
this and also from G. circesans.* oe 
Mr. Peck has recently collected specimens of a form of G. 
<rcezans with perfectly glabrous corolla near Whitehall, N. Y., 
HERE eviencqeee eee 
*GALIUM OREGANUM, n. sp. Leaves oblong, ovate-oblong or ovate, acute or 
acutish or the lowest obtuse, ciliate on the margins and usually also on the upper side - 
of the nerves; corolla glabrous; fruit shorter-pedicelled than that of CER oe 
<um, and twice as large when ripe. Characters based on a specimen of Howell’s — ie 
Oregon collections, Suksdorf’s 864 from Skamania county, Washington, and Piper’ se 
9et from Mason county, Washington. The obovate obtuse leaves sprinkled with 
short hairs on the upper surface of the G. Kamptschaticum of the Adirondac 
"ites Mountains and Lower Canada appear to be perfectly constant. 
