REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST FOR I92I 1 5 



Forma lateralis forma nova. Stems normal as regards size and 

 foliage, the flowering heads scattered and borne upon short axillar)- 

 peduncles ( 1-2 cm long) in the axils of the leaves above the middle 

 of the stem, the peduncles shorter than the subtending leaves, some- 

 times also one of the short-peduncled heads terminal on the stem. 

 Karner, Albany county. C. H. Peck. 



Aster laevis L., var. concinnus (Willd.) comb. nov. 

 Aster concinnus Willd. Enum. 8S4. 1S09 



The t}'pical form of tliis variety has extremely long and corre- 

 spondingly narrow leaves, and appears quite distinct, but intermedi- 

 ate forms between it and the t}pical Aster laevis are not rare in 

 the highlands adjacent to the Hudson valley in Albany county. 



Clarksville, House 7661, September 18. Green's lake, Catskill. 

 Greene county. House 5970, August 17. 191 5 (photographed for the 

 "Wild Flowers of New York"). Whitehall, W^ashington count}-, 

 Peck. Intermediate form: Sandy woods west of Albany. Hoxisc, 

 September 14, 1916 (photographed for A. laevis, in the Wild 

 Flowers of New York). The extremely broad-leaved form, var. 

 amplifolius Porter, occurs at Lake Mohonk, Ulster county. Peck. 



Betula coerulea Blanchard 

 On dry rocky, partially wooded hillside near Glenmont. House 

 6794, August 26, 1919. 



Blephariglottis lacera (Michx.) Farwell, forma elongata (Peck) 



comb. nov. 



Habenaria lacera var. elongata Peck, 46th Rep't N. Y. State 

 Mus. 49. 1893 



Selkirk. Dr C. H. Peck. 



The inflorescence greatly elongated, the flowers rather distant and 

 subtended by large foliaceous or leaflike bracts. 



Botrychium obliquum var. oneidense Gilbert 

 Sandy woods west of Albany. House 8721, October 18, 1921. 



Carex Bicknellii Britton 

 Rocky ledges under shade of cedars and pines, near Glenmont. 

 House 7875, May 24, 192 1. Dutchess and Tompkins counties are 

 the only other recorded localities for this sedge in New York. 



Carex conoidea Schk. 

 Woods near Glenmont. House 6g88, June 8, 



