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Carex incomperta Bicknell 

 Low woods near Averill Park. House 6^40, June 23, 19 19. 

 Growing with this species were C. projecta Mackenzie; C. trisperma 

 Dewey; C. brunnescens (Pers.) Poir. and Carex folliculata L. 



Aster Pringlei (Gray) Britton 

 In open dry woods near Averill Park. House 76J0, October 3. 



Viola pubescens Ait. 



The capsules in this species are usually woolly with a dense white 

 indument. Only two specimens ; Bald mountain, Rensselaer county, 

 Peck, and Harrisville, Lewis county, Peck, have glabrous or nearly 

 glabrous capsules, and may be designated as var. Peckii, var. nov. 

 Capsules glabrous or nearly glabrous. The Bald mountain collection 

 by Doctor Peck may be designated as the type. 



This variety is parallel to V. eriocarpa Schw., var. leio- 

 carpa Fernald (Rhodora, 23: 275, 1922), to which nearly all 

 of the New York specimens ofV. eriocarpa seem to belong. 



Galeorchis spectabilis (L.) Rybd., forma Gordinierii, forma nova 



All parts of the flowers pure white. Schaghticoke. H. C. Gor- 

 dinier (state herbarium). Reported in tlie 40th Rep't N. Y. State 

 Mus. 73. 1887. 



Rubus strigosus Michx., var. canadensis (Richards.) comb. nov. 



R. I d a e u s var. canadensis Richards. Bot. App. Frankl. Jour. Ed. 2, 

 747- 1823 



Batidaea subarctica Greene, Leaflets, i : 242. 1906 

 Rubus subarctica Rydb., N. Am. Fl., 22 : 448. 1913 

 Rubus Carolinian us Rydb., 1. c. 447. 



Inflorescence with both glands and minute bristles; new canes 

 with slender bristles and sometimes also stipitate glands; bark of 

 the new canes cineroeus-tomentulose beneath the prickles which are 

 all bristleform. 



Stephentown. Dr C. H. Peck. Also collected at North Elba, 

 Essex county by Doctor Peck. 



Typical R. strigosus has the bark of the new canes glabrous 

 or nearly so, usually glaucous beneath the bristles and in age becom- 

 ing lustrous. I can see no advantage in retaining R. strigosus 

 as a variety of the European R . I d a e u s , which has an inflores- 

 cence without glands or minute bristles. The leading authority who 

 merges strigosus into R. Idaeus as a variety, does not 

 hesitate to regard the glandular character of the inflorescence as one 

 of specific value in the blackberries. 



