REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 107 
NEW STATIONS OF RARE PLANTS, REMARKABLE VARIETIES AND 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Cornus Canapensis L. 
A form of this plant was found at Greig, in which the peduncle 
was divided near the summit and supported two or three clusters 
of flowers. The involucres were rose-colored. 
LAPPA OFFICINALIS V. TOMENTOSA G7. 
New Baltimore. Howe. 
V acctntum casprrosum JMWicha. 
This plant and Carex irrigua Smith, must be added to the 
flowering plants found on the open summit of Mt. Marcy. 
Myrica CERIFERA ZL. 
Banks of the Hudson, half a mile north of Cold Spring. 
AONIDA CANNABINA ZL, 
This sea-coast plant has been found at New Baltimore. Howe. 
Scirpus Torreyt Olney. 
Shores of Schroon Lake. 
The stigmas in any particular flower develop before the anthers 
of that flower and are withered by the time these are mature, 
thereby insuring cross fertilization. 
Carex vititis A’. 
This is the only Carex found on the open summit of Dix’s Peak. 
No grass grows there. This is remarkable, because on all the 
other high open summits of the Adirondacks that I have visited 
several species of grasses and Carices occur. 
EqQuisETuM PALUSTRE V. RAMOSISSIMUM. 
Strawberry Island. Clinton. 
The specimen is much more branched than usual and bk 
branches are themselves furnished with branchlets. 
PHEGOPTERIS POLYPODIOIDES V. MULTIFIDUM Lowe. 
This singluar variety occurs sparingly in the Adirondack Mts. 
Aspipium AcuLEAtTUM Swartz. 
This very rare fern was reported from the Adirondack Mts. 
many years ago by Dr. W. #. Macrae, but, until the present 
season, had not since been found there. In a recent botanical 
