REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 118 
ABIES NIGRA Por. 
This tree extends to the summits of all the high peaks of 
the Adirondacks, but in the most elevated situations it gen- 
erally assumes the appearance of a low, half-prostrate bush, 
the branches sometimes spreading laterally as in the dwarf 
yew, and the leaves are frequently glaucous. In less ele- 
vated situations where the trees are thrifty the glaucous- 
leaved variety, in the absence of the cones, might easily be 
mistaken for the white spruce. 
LARIX AMERICANA Ua. 
Variety pendula occurs near ‘‘Griffin’s Place,’’ Indian 
Lake. A small shrubby form grows near the summit of 
Haystack Mt., which is probably the highest altitude 
attained by this tree in the State. It is therein company 
with Abies nigra, A. balsamea, Juniperus communis and 
Thuja occidentalis,— more coniferous trees than I have 
seen on any of the other high summits of the Adirondacks. 
ZYGADENUS GLAUCUS Wut. 
Lodi swamp near Syracuse, in company with Zofieldia 
glutinosa. Lev. H. Wibbe. 
JuNCUS sTyGIUS L. 
Marshy borders of a lake, Adirondack Mts. The only 
locality in the State hitherto reported for this rare species 
is Perch Lake, Jefferson county, and this L infer from the 
remarks in Paine’s Catalogue of Oneida County Plants, is 
either destroyed or exhausted. Though the newly dis- 
covered locality is a remote one, seldom visited by botanists, 
I hesitate, for prudential reasons, to designate it more 
definitely. 
ComMELYNA Virernica L. 
Fishkill, where it is apparently a stray from cultivation. 
CAREX SCIRPOIDEA Wz. 
This, and Abies nigra, should be added to the list of 
flowering plants found on the summit of Mt. Marcy. 
CAREX SILICEA Olney. 
Sandy shores near Sag Harbor. 
CAREX FENEA Willd. 
Suffolk county. Young. 
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