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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 fi. 



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 10-14 x 4-5 fx. 



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, 



