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contains specimens collected at Tappan (C. F. Austin), Fulton 

 county (C. P. Alexander) and Wading river (Young) ^\ Paine" 

 (p. 121 ) reports it from Summit lake, Otsego county, and Mud 

 lake, southern Herkimer county. 



Ranunculus delphinifolius Torrey^" 

 Golah, Monroe county (E. P. Killip, June 15, 1917). This is 

 apparently the variety a of R. p u r s h i i in Paine's catalogue' 

 (p. 54), where the species is reported from marshes east of Onon- 

 daga lake, and along the shore of Lake Ontario at Sodus bay 

 (p. 182). Beck and Tracy^^ (as R. lacustris) report it from 

 " near Lansingburg and near Lewiston," while the Beck herbarium 

 contains a specimen from near Albany and one from Rochester 

 (Bradley). 



In the ]\Ionroe county flora* (p. 42) it is reported from West 

 Henrietta, Chili, Gates and Wayne county. Gray^* reports it from 

 near Watertown, and it has been collected at Ithaca (C. S. Sheldon, 

 1880), Albany (Peck) and Rossie, St Lawrence county (Peck, 

 June 14, 1909). In southern New York it is reported from Wading 

 River by E. S. Miller'^^ and from Orient by Burnham and Lat- 

 ham^'', from Staten Island by Hollick and Britton^'. 



The true Ranunculus purshii Richards. (Frank. 

 Jour., p. 741 ; 1823) is referred to by Paine (p. 54) as variety /? 

 while his variety / is quite certainly the so-called variety t e r r e s - 

 tris of Ranunculus delphinifolius. 



Aquilegia vulgaris Linnaeus 

 The European columbine is an occasional escape near dwellings 

 biit in southern Herkimer county it has become in certain localities 

 a very common weed, especially in old fields and in pastures. When 

 in full bloom (June 24, 1917) it is very conspicuous. 



Asimina triloba (Linnaeus) Dunal 

 The papaw, which is rather abundant throughout the southern 

 states, is known in New York State from only a few localities in 



^i27th Rep't X. Y. State Mus., p. 112. 1S77. 



°- Eaton. Manual, ed. 2. p. 395. 1818. 



^^ Beck & Tracy in X. Y. M^d. & Phys. Jour., 2: 112. 1823. 



^*Ann. Lvc. Xat. Hist. X'^. Y.. 3: 221. "1836. 



"Torrey'Bot. Club Bui. 6, p. 258. 1878. 



^^Torreya, 14: 241. 1914. 



^' Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 18, p. 213. 1891. 



