Local flora notes—V* 
NorRMAN TAYLOR 
AMARYLLIDACEAE 
1. Hypoxis hirsuta (L.) Coville. Of all the stations in our 
range,t and there are a good many, none is at a greater elevation 
than 500 ft. The recent catalogue of Connecticut plants says 
of it, ‘“‘Common.” If it is found throughout that state it reaches 
greater altitudes than our collections show. No specimens are 
known from the Catskills or from the Pocono region. 
IRIDACEAE 
1. Iris versicolor L. There are a good many specimens from 
the range, only one of which, however, comes from south of 
Monmouth Co., N. J. This is a single specimen from Forked 
River, N. J. Is the plant ever found well within the pine-barren 
region? In the catalogue of New Jersey plants it is said ‘‘Com- 
mon in the eastern and southern counties; less frequent in the 
northwestern part of the state.” We have no specimens from 
the latter territory but a few along the eastern counties, one only 
from south of Monmouth Co. 
2. Iris Pseudacorus L. General works say of this that it 
is established from Massachusetts to New Jersey. Our only 
specimen is from near Prince’s Garden, at Flushing, L. I., and has 
all the hall marks of an accidental escape. Such a record cannot 
be construed into a logical basis of asserting that the plant is 
“established.” A conservative interpretation of this would de- 
mand at least a three year’s persistence of a reasonably large 
quantity of the plants. Has any one ever seen this plant growing 
ae from Torreya 10: 145-149. 
local flora range as prescribed by the Club’ s Preliminary Catalogue of 1888 
is as fees All of the state of Connecticut; Long Island; in New York the counties 
bordering the Hudson River up toand including Columbia and Greene, also Sullivan 
Montgomery, Philadelphia, Delaware, and Chester counties in Pennsylvania. 
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