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ridged on the back, with a low sHghtly grooved ridge, 5.5-6 mm long- 

 and 4-5 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with numerous small stems, ascending or 

 suberect branches and slender nearly straight glabrous branchlets 

 dark orange green when they first appear, becoming light chestnut- 

 brown, lustrous and marked by pale lenticels in their first season 

 and light gray brown the following year, and armed with numerous 

 slender straight or slightly curved light chestnut-brown shining 

 spines 4-5 cm long. 



Sandy or rocky soil ; Essex co. Common. North Elba, C. H. 

 Peck ( # 40, type), May 27, July 22 and September 14, 1903; 

 C. H. Peck ( 40), Keene, May 31 and September 16, 1903. 



Crataegus scabrida Sarg. 



Hilly and rocky pastures. West Albany, Albany co., C. H. Peck ; 

 New Hartford, Oneida co., J. V. Plaberer. May and September. 

 This is a large shrub or small tree which occurs in several places 

 about Albany. It also occurs in Petersburg, Rensselaer co. Its 

 fruit is edible. 



Crataegus tenella Ashe 



Hilly and rocky pastures. Colemans Station and Moores Mills, 

 Dutchess CO. ; Dykemans, Putnam co. May, September and Octo- 

 ber. W. W. Eggleston. 



Cynoglossum boreale Fern. 

 West Fort Ann, Washington co. June. S. H. Burnham. 



Didymium clavus (A. & S.) Rabenh. 

 Dead herbaceous stems. Clrove Springs near Lake Keuka. July. 

 C. E. Fairman. These specimens differ from typical forms in having 

 a slightly smaller peridium. 



Dryopteris pittsfordensis Slosson 

 Springville, Richmond co. May. Philip Dowell. Sol way, Onon- 

 daga CO. R. C. Benedict. 



Entoloma minus n. sp. 

 Pileus thin, subconic or hemispheric, becoming broadly convex, 

 glabrous, grayish brown, darker in the center ; lamellae thin, close, 

 ascending at first, sinuate behind, whitish becoming flesh color; 



