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Lonicera hirsuta Eaton 
This pretty, climbing shrub sometimes attains a comparatively 
large size. An example was observed in North Elba with the shrub 
approximately 2 cm in diameter and 3 or 4 m tall. 
Pholiota cerasina Pk. 
Specimens of this rare species were collected in Inlet, Hamilton 
co. and contributed by F. C. Stewart. It is peculiar in its cherry- 
like odor by which it is easily recognized. 
Picea canadensis ( Mill.) BSP. 
Cambridge water works swamp, Washington co. July. F. Dob- 
bin and S. H. Burnham. This swamp is a large one, covering an 
area of approximately one square mile and the stream flowing 
through it is fed by cold springs which probably aid in making it 
a suitable habitat for this northern cold-loving spruce. This is 
doubtless the southern limit for it in our State and an outlying 
station in which it has been able to maintain itself by reason of the 
cold character of the soil. Nevertheless the shortness of the leaves 
of these specimens indicate that its environment here is not favor- 
able to its most vigorous development. Still it bears cones though 
not of large size. ; 
Pleurotus ostreatus magnificus n. var. 
Pileus very large, 12-30 cm broad, glabrous, often pitted toward 
the margin, pallid or subalutaceous; lamellae whitish, anastomosing 
at the base; stem 5 to 10 cm long, eccentric, strigose, variable, 
whitish; spores 10-14 x 4-5 p. 
On an old log near the ground. Shakers, Albany co. November. 
S. H. Burnham. 
Pileus maximus, 12-30 cm latae, glaber, saepe margine lacunosus, 
pallidus subalutaceusve; stipes 5 to 10 cm longus, eccentricus, stri- 
gosus, variabilis, albidus; sporae IO-I14 x 4-5 p. 
Polystichum braunii (Spenner) Fee 
A new station for this rare fern has been discovered in our 
State by Edgar Tweedy, a lover of both plants and birds. It is in 
North Elba and is at present its most northern New York station 
known to me. It had previously been found in several places in 
the Catskill mountains, also near Summit, Schoharie co., and Hague, 
