REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST FOR I924 II 



LOCAL FLORA NOTES IX 



Since the publication of Local Flora Notes VIII/ there has 

 been published by the writer an Annotated List of the Ferns and 

 Flowering Plants of New York State.'* With this as a basis it 

 will be the purpose of this and future Local Flora Notes to make 

 additions to the known species and varieties of plants of the State, 

 to make certain corrections and other additions as might seem to 

 come within the scope of this title. 



Albany county 

 A series of articles in the Albany Zodiac in 1835 and 1836 by 

 Dr James Eights brings to mind most forcibly the great changes 

 which have taken place in the flora of the sand plains between 

 Albany and Schenectady and especially the disappearance of many 

 attractive wild flowers and ferns, which to judge from his remarks 

 were then quite common. He speaks of finding in blossom such 

 plants- as : 



Linnaea borealis (probably long since disappeared from 

 the woods of these sand plains. Doctor Peck seems not to have 

 found it there in his day). 



Plantanthera orbiculata (Lysias orbiculata 

 (Pursh) Rydb.) 



Plantanthera dilatata (Limnorchis dilatata 

 (Pursh) Rydb.) 



Habenaria fimbriata (probably our Blephariglot- 

 tis psycodes (L.) Rydb., now exceedingly rare here). 



Habenar|a ciliaris ( B 1 e p h a r i gl o 1 1 i s ciliaris 

 (L.) Rydb., known to Beck, Pearson and others, and was last 

 collected here by Doctor Peck about 1908, since which time no 

 trace of it has been found.) 



Pterospora andromeda (Eights gives to this plant the 

 common name of Albany beechdrops, because, as he states, it was 

 first found near Albany by Dr Edwin James. There are no recent 

 records for it in this vicinity.) 



Cassia marilandica L. 



Hypericum ascyroides (now called H. Ascyron 

 L., and not recently collected here). 



Pedicularis pallida Pursh (now called P. lanceo- 

 lata Michx., and unknown in the sand plains, still persisting in a 

 small patch north of Rensselaer). 



Eights also lists as common flowering plants of the sand plains 

 Lobelia cardinalis, Parnassia Carolinian a, 



1 New York State Mus. Bui. 243-44: I3-.S8. 1923. 



2 New York State Mus. Bui. 254. 1924. 



