REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I917 25 



the western counties. Recently collected in an old field near the 

 New York Central Railroad about 2 miles east of Brockport, Mon- 

 roe county (H. D. House, August 15, 1917). 



Paine" (p. 57) cites Greece and Parma, Monroe county (Brad- 

 ley), shore of Lake Erie near Barcelona (Kneiskern). In the 

 Monroe county flora the Brockport locality is credited to Prof. 

 W. H. Lennon and it is also reported from Adams Basin by Baxter. 

 Day^ (p. 15) reports it from Sturgeon Point, Erie county (C. H. 

 Williams), Lockport and Middleport, Niagara county (James 

 Hall), mouth of Chautauqua creek (Kneiskern) and Medina, 

 Orleans county (Dr Hugo Schmidt). 



It is interesting to note here that adult specimens of the butterfly 

 (Iphiclides ajax telamonides), the larvae of which 

 feeds upon the papaw, have been taken on the flowers of the fire- 

 weed ( C h a m a e n e r i o n a n g u s t if o 1 i u m) in North 

 Elba^^ Essex county, along the road to Keene, at an altitude of 

 about 2000 feet, on July 17, 1912. The papaw is unknown in this 

 region and so far as we know does not occur nearer than Monroe 

 county or New Jersey, but it is possible that the larvae of ajax has 

 other food plants than the papaw. 



Radicula hispida (Desvaux) Britton 

 On the sand bar between Braddock's bay and Lake Ontario, 

 Monroe county (H. D. House, July 3, 1917). 



Polanisia graveolens Rafinesque 

 Along sand bars of the Hudson river near Wemple, Albany 

 county (H. D. House, September 29, 1917). This has been pre- 

 viously reported from the banks of the Hudson below Garrisons by 

 J. S. Merriam'" and at Peekskiir by S. B. Mead. Paine (p. 62) 

 reports it from Schenectady (Pearson), Oneida lake (Vasey), 

 Cayuga Bridge (Bradley), Crooked lake (Sartwell). It is also 

 recorded from near West Point by W. W. Bailey^^ and George W. 

 Clinton"- mentions collections of it from Kings county made by 

 Smith and Leggett. The state herbarium also contains specimens 

 of this rather local species from Seneca lake (Gray), Owasco lake 



^^F. E. Watson & L. V. Coleman in Brooklyn Entomological Soc. Bui. 8, 

 p. 4-6. Oct. 1912. 



S3 Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 3, p. 38. 1872. 

 "OTorrev Bot. Club Bui. 3, P- 40. 1872. 

 "1 Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 13, p. 60. 1886. 

 ^- 19th Rep't Regents, p. 204. 1866. 



