40 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
NOTES UPON LOCAL FLORAS 
BY HOMER D. HOUSE 
1 FULTON COUNTY 
Orontium aquaticum Linn. 
Collected near Broadalbin in June 1884, by J. D. Grespelene 
The specimen is preserved in the State herbarium and Messrs A. 
Olsson and C. P. Alexander, who have collected extensively in this 
section within the past few years, have failed to rediscover this spe- 
cies. The Fulton county record of this species is interesting be- 
cause the species is credited in this State usually only to the southern 
counties, the specimens in the State herbarium being from southern 
Chenango county, Sullivan, Orange, Richmond and Suffolk counties. 
Trillium cernuum Linn. 
Rich, moist soil in thickets and thin woods, near Northampton. 
H. D. House, May 27, 1914. No. 5424. 
Viola lanceolata Linn. 
Moist meadows, near Northampton. H.-D. House, May 27, 1914. 
No. 5422. 
Viola primulaefolia Linn. 
Moist meadows, near Northampton, growing with Viola 
lanceolata. H. D? House, May 27, 1914: >No. 572m 
Viola septentrionalis Greene 
Open wood and roadsides, near Northampton. H. D. House, 
May 27, 1914. No. 5412. 
Viola fimbriatula x septentrionalis Brainerd 
Roadsides near Northampton. H. D. House, May 27, 1914. No. 
5415. 
2 HERKIMER COUNTY 
Lysimachia vulgaris Linn. 
Common and thoroughly naturalized along the banks of West 
Canada creek from Herkimer up to Poland. Collected at Newport, 
H. D. House, July 23, 1914. No. 5688. The golden or yellow 
loosestrife seems to have been early introduced in this region as an 
