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Although new to the State herbarium, Hitchcock and Chase cite 
specimens in the national herbarium from the Thousand Islands, 
Ausable Chasm, Appalachin and several places on Long Island. 
Panicum werneri Scribn. 
Gloversville, June 29, 1912. No. 259. A rare species, ranging 
from Maine to Minnesota, Ohio and Texas. Although new to the 
State herbarium, it has been collected previously in New York, 
according to Hitchcock and Chase, at Tripoli, Washington county, 
by S. H. Burnham, in 1897, near New York City, by E. P. Bick- 
nell, in 1895, and near Ithaca, by Ashe and Rowlee, in 1802. 
Pyrola uliginosa Torrey 
(P. asarifolia incarnata (Fisch.) Fernald) 
Cold Springs, Gloversville, 1913. No. 409. The purple-flowered 
shin-leaf is a subarctic species ranging from Newfoundland to 
Alaska, in cold sphagnum bogs. In New York it is confined to the 
northern and central counties. Besides the Fulton county station 
here recorded it occurs at several localities in Oneida, Madison, 
Oswego and Onondaga counties. 
Phragmitis communis L. 
Gloversville, September 1912. No. 281. 
Polygala viridescens Linn. 
Peck’s pond, September 18, 1912. No. 286. 
Persicaria careyi (Olney) Greene © 
Jackson’s summit, August 22, 1912. No. 292. 
Sagittaria graminea Michx. 
Sacandaga river, August 6, 1913. No. 335. 
Sagittaria rigida Pursh 
Vlei, August 6, 1913. No. 102. 
Scirpus smithii A. Gray 
Northville, August 10, 1913. The specimens are not quite mature, 
but recognizable by the terete stems, flattened achenes and erect 
involucral leaves. Rare and local in distribution from Maine to 
