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Notes from Binghampton, N.Y. During the present year the 
botany of this section has been enriched by the discovery of sev- 
eral plants new to the region, and by the addition of several 
interesting facts regarding more common ones. 
On May 31, 1896, I found a considerable amount of the 
mouse-ear hawkweed (/. Pilose/la L.) growing on a dry bank near 
New Milford, Susquehanna county, Pa. The plant is reported to 
be not uncommon in that locality. 
A dry wooded hill within the city limits of Binghampton, 
yielded an abundance of Silene antirrhina divaricata Robinson, in 
July. 
Linnaea borealis was found on July 4, 1896, at Killawog, 
Broome county, N. Y., altitude, 1050 feet. The plant is re- 
ported from several points in this latitude, but so far as 1 am 
aware, always from higher elevations. 
On the 12th of July 1896, a large swamp filled with Wood- 
wardia Virginica was noted ten miles north of Binghamton. This 
fern is very rare in this part of the Susquehanna Valley. The 
only other station known to me was found by Mr. James A. 
Graves at Susquehanna, Pa. 
Orontium aquaticum, previously known to grow here, has been 
found in much larger quantities ina swamp. On the borders of 
certain small lakes in the territory south of us, this plant is very 
abundant, but in all situations where it grows the fact that it is an 
introduced species seems apparent. 
The corn-speedwell (Veronica arvensis) has become quite a. 
weed in cultivated grounds. It differs from the usual V7. arvensis 
in producing deep blue blossoms. 
The stipules of Porteranthus trifoliatus are supposed to be small 
and awl-shaped, but in this locality specimens are common with 
ovate-lanceolate incised stipules three-quarters of an inch in 
length. 
Ranunculus repens, which occurs occasionally in wet. places, 
has taken up its abode in several lawns about the city. In such © 
situations the leaves are white-spotted and close to the earth and 
the stems are flat on the ground and root at every joint. The — : 
whole plant is so low that the lawn mower will not. touch it, and | 
_ in consequence is hard to eradicate. Wi.itarp N. CLuTE. 
