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Forma angustifolia (Pursh) comb, nov. 

 In this form the leaves vary from 4 to 8 inches in length, and 

 one-half of an inch to 2 inches broad at the hastate base. Stis- 

 sing pond, Dutchess county, Peck. 



Forma latifolia (Raf.) comb. nov. 



(Unisema latifolia Raf.) 



Leaves 5 to 7 inches long, occasionally longer, and 4 to 5 inches 

 broad at the shallowly cordate-hastate base. Mud lake, North 

 Hannibal, Oswego county, C. S. Sheldon, August 25, 1879. 



Other and less-marked forms might be recognized with 

 respect to the base of the leaf-blades which in some colonies are 

 more cordate and in other colonies more hastate. The form of 

 the typical species, forma albiflora (Raf.) comb. nov. 

 (Unisema media var. albiflora Raf.) with white 

 flowers, has not, to my knowledge, been reported from New 

 York. 



Agalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf., forma albiflora (Britton) 



comb. nov. 

 (Gerardia tenuifolia var. albiflora Britton) 

 Occurs rarely with the typical species. 



Solidago caesia L. 



Gray (T. & G. Fl. N. Am., 2: 199. 1841), states that no 

 specimen of S . caesia exists in the Linnaean herbarium, and 

 that the species must rest upon "Virga aurea mari- 

 landic caesia glabra" Dill Elth, t. ^o'j f. S95- This 

 is the so-called var. paniculata. 



The common northern form with mainly simple stems, the 

 thin leaves much exceeding the very small axillary flower clus- 

 ters, appears to be more properly designated as a form than 

 as a variety ; forma axillaris (Pursh) comb. nov. (S . axillaris 

 Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 542. 1814; S . caesia var. axillaris 

 A. Gray). 



Senecio pauperculus Michx. var. praelongus (Greenman) comb. 



nov. 

 S. Balsamitae var. praelongus Greenman, Rhodora, 3 : 6. 1901 

 Reported from northern New York in the seventh edition of 



Gray's Manual (1908), but is not represented from this State 



in the state herbarium. 



