REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I909 ^^ 



REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS 

 Cardamine bulbosa (Schreb.) B. S. P. 



This name takes the place in the New Manual of Cardamine 

 rhomboidea DC. in Gray's Manual, ed. 6. Fine flowering 

 specimens of it were collected in May near Little's pond, Albany co. 



Centaurea solstitialis L. 



This recently introduced plant is apparently spreading, specimens 

 having been received the past season from Highland, Ulster co., 

 where it was collected by C. J. Elting, and from the southern part 

 of Cayuga co., collected by A. D. Baker. 



Cerastium viscosum L. 



Orient Point. May. R. Latham. This is a rare species in our 

 State. 



Crataegus verecunda gonocarpa n. var. 



Leaves thin, elliptic, oval or suborbicular, obtuse or acutish. 

 rounded at the base, yellowish green, green with age, becoming 

 glabrous except a few scattered hairs on the upper surface, not at 

 all or only slightly broadly lobed above the middle, the margins 

 often curved upward, petioles 4-10 mm long, slightly margined 

 above, glabrous or with few hairs in the furrow, with few or no 

 glands. 



Flowers 5-10 in a cluster, 12-14 i™i^ broad, on short mostly 

 simple pedicels less than an inch long, calyx lobes linear, glabrous, 

 subentire; stamens 1-7, anthers whitish; styles 2-3. 



Fruit erect or nearly so, compressed or obtusely 3-angled, dark 

 red when ripe, with numerous minute yellowish lenticels, 10-12 

 mm long, 7-12 ram broad, compressed fruits about 7 mm in the 

 narrow diameter, 12 mm in the broad diameter, flesh greenish 

 yellow, 'hard and dry, nutlets 2-3, 7-9 mm long. 



Rocky hillside. Corning. May 29, September 17 and 21. 



A shrub 2-3 m tall with numerous spreading branches armed 

 with curved spines 2.5-4 cm long, commonly pointing toward the 

 base. The leaves on vigorous shoots are larger than the others, 

 nearly orbicular and more distinctly lobed. The characters which 

 specially distinguish this from the typical plant are its more entire 

 elliptic or suborbicular leaves, its shorter pedicels and its com- 

 pressed or bluntly angular fruit, 

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