1889.] NEW YOKE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 11 



I have adopted Dr. Bigelow's spelling of the specific name, 

 who took it from Richard in Michaux's Flora, but presume that 

 it should be dissomorpJmm, as Dr. Torrey has it on page 446 of 

 the first volume of the '' New York Flora," where he appears to 

 have confounded it with V. Canadense. Dr. Gray remarks, in the 

 first edition of his " Manual," that the characters of the plant 

 appear to be perfectly constant, but he subsequently changed 

 his mind and in the fifth edition it appears only as a variety. 

 In his " Synoptical Flora" it is given, under F. corymbosum var. 

 atrococcum, as V. disocarpum, and this misprint was taken up 

 in the Torrey Club's Preliminary Catalogue. 



LiMNANTHEMUM AQUATICUM (Walt.). 



Anonynios aquatica, Walt. Flor. Car. 109 (1788). 



Menyanthes trachysperma, Michx. Flor. Bor. Amer. i. 126 



(1803). 



Mr. A. 0. Apgar sends this species from a pond at Bridgeton, 

 Cumberland Co., N. J., thus bringing it within the 100-niile 

 circle of the New York local flora. Mr. A. Commons had pre- 

 viously collected it at Millsboro, Sussex Co., Del., just without 

 the limits of the local flora. 



Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.). 



Bignonia tomentosa, Thunb. Flor. Jap. 252 (1784). 



Pauloiuaia imperialis, Sieb. and Zucc. Flor. Jap. i. 27, t. 10 



(1835). 



While hardly deserving notice under this heading, it is of in- 

 terest to record that this Japanese tree has established itself in 

 rocky woods at Kocky Hill, N. J., where it flowers freely, as ob- 

 served by Eev. L. H. Lighthipe. 



Utricularia cleistogama (Gray). 



In the fifth edition of Gray's '' Manual," page 320, mention 

 is made of the discovery by Mr. J. A. Paine, Jr., in September, 

 1866, in the pine-barrens of New Jersey, of a few specimens of a 

 minute Utricularia, with faint pink-purple corolla not larger 

 than a pin's head. In the ''Synoptical Flora," Dr. Gray de- 

 scribes this plant as U. subulata var. cleistogama, as "an inch or 

 two high, bearing one or two evidently cleistogamous flowers.'* 

 It was again collected in 1881, in wet ground along Atsion River 

 below Atsion, N. J.,— also in the pine-barrens, — by Prof. J. 

 A. Allen, of New Haven, Conn., who distributed some speci- 

 mens. 



On August 18th of the present year, while botanizing at 

 Forked River, N. J., also a region of cedar swamp and pine- 

 barrens, I collected a number of specimens of a minute Utri- 

 cularia with strictly cleistogamous flowers, answering the de- 



