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Common in low grounds, especially about Lake Ontario, Oneida 

 lake and other localities in the Ontario lowlands and the St Law- 

 rence basin, where it appears to represent an indigenous or native 

 form of the European E, crusgalli. Has also been collected 

 by Peck along the Hudson river near Albany. 



Eleccharis reclinata Kunth, Enum. PI. 2 : 143. 1837. 



Scirpus intermedius Muhl. Gram. 31. 1817. >s'ot Thuill. 1799, nor 

 Poir. 1804 



Eleocharis intermedia Schultes, Alant, 2: 91. 1824 

 Scirpus reclinatus Beyr., in Kunth, 1. c. 



var. Habereri (Fernald) comb. nov. 

 E. intermedia var. Habereri Fernald, Rhodora, 8 : 130. 1906 

 Common on the sandy shores of Oneida lake. 



Juncus inflexus L. (/. glaucus Ehrh.) 

 Growing in dense round clumps, i to 3 feet broad, on springy 

 hillsides along and adjacent to the Willanoa creek, near Waterville, 

 town of Sangerfield. House, August 18, 191 7. Determined by 

 F. V. Coville. 



Native of Europe, where widely distributed. Not previously 

 reported from America. It is perhaps introduced at the above 

 localit}^ although if so, the introduction must have occurred many 

 years ago, as the plants are numerous and thoroughly at home, 

 occupying quite an extent of sloping boggy or springy soil which has 

 apparently never been under cultivation, but has been used for 

 pasturage at various times. 



Rosa rubifolia R. Br. 



Open swampy ground east of Oneida. House 6446, July 11, 1919. 

 Apparently native, and distinguished from R. setigera Michx. 

 by its pale, almost white, velvety under surfaces of the leaves. 



Oxalis Brittonae Small 



Dry fields in sandy soil, north of Taberg. House 6140, June 6, 

 1919. 



Oxalis oneidica, sp. nov. 



Stems erect, but more or less decumbent at the base, 5-15 cm high, 

 arising from short or occasionally elongated rootstocks ; densely 

 strigulose and quite slender ; foliage grayish with a very fine, closely 

 appressed indument ; leaflets three, blades 8-12 mm wide, not appreci- 

 aljly ciliate; peduncles longer than tlie petioles, rarely overtopping 

 the stem and its branches, two-flowered ; flowers erect, the pedicels 

 appressed-pubescent and refracted in fruit ; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 



