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PLANTS FOUND GROWING SPONTANEOUSLY IN THE STATE AND 
NOT BEFORE REPORTED. 
LytHrum ALATUM Pursh. 
Wet places in pastures. West Albany. Probably introduced 
from the west. 
CH#ROPHYLLUM PROcUMBENS Lam. 
Along the banks of Clyde river near Lyons. &. LZ. Hankenson. 
ARCEUTHOBIUM PusILLUM Peck.. 
Plant scattered or closely gregarious, small, 6’—10” high, simple 
or slightly branched, varying in color from olive-green to chestnut ; 
leaf-like scales opposite, connate at the base, forming a cup-like 
sheath, broad, scarcely pointed; inflorescence dicecious, flowers 
terminal and lateral, single in the axils of the scales, sessile, termi- 
nal male flower-bud globose, lateral ones compressed, sepals and 
stamens three, the latter opposite the former; fruit ovate, subacu- 
minate and a little more highly colored toward the apex, nodding 
on a shortly exserted peduncle, the seed involved in a viscid 
mucus, escaping from the base of the pericarp. 
Flowers in spring; fruit mature in autumn. Living branches of 
spruce trees, Adbzes nigra. Sandlake, Rensselaer county. 
The stems of the fruiting plant, and even the fruit itself, in the 
dried state, are somewhat quadrangular, but in the fresh state they 
are nearly terete. The species is related to Arceuthobium campylo- 
podum Engelm., but is smaller, less branched, with the scales not 
cuspidate and the flowers opening earlier in the season. It was 
detected near Warrensburgh, Warren county, by Mrs. L. Milling- 
ton, a few weeks previous to its discovery in Sandlake, but I have 
seen no specimens from that locality. Its range is probably north- 
ward. 
The trees on which it occurs in Sandlake grow on the low peaty 
borders of a cranberry marsh. They are few and small and have 
short leaves and a bushy starved appearance. Such trees in some 
localities are called “ bastard spruce.” I suspect the feeble condi- 
tion of the tree to be the occasion not the result of the attack of 
the parasite. All the plants, so far as I have observed, grow on 
the younger parts of the branches, but never on the young and 
tender shoot of the current season. Considering this as the first 
internode in our progress from the extremity of an affected branch 
toward the trunk whence it has its origin, we shall find, in Sep- 
tember, small hemispherical buds just emerging from the bark of 
the second, small plants with flower-buds occupying the third and 
