REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST FOR I924 I5 



in this section but only on the trunks of arbor vitae. Determined 



by Dr A. W. Evans, who states that he has no previous record of 



this hepatic from New York, although he has it from Vermont and 



Ohio. Barbour^ records it only from Ohio and Canada. 



Among other hepatics collected ?t Newcomb, and named by 



Doctor Evans, are : 



Frullania eboracensis Gottsche 

 Frullania Asagrayana Mont. 

 Bazzania trilobata (L.) S. F. Gray 

 Porella platyphylla (L.) Lindb. 

 Ptilidium pulcherrinum (Web.) Hampe 



Cypripedium arietinum R. Br. 

 Near Keeseville. IV. H. Roberts. June i. 1924. 



Rosa Bushii Rydberg- 



Old fields near Newcomb. H. D. House Qoyg, July i8, 1922. 

 and collected again near the same place and in another field about a 

 mile distant in 1923. The type of this species is from Courtney, I\Io. 



Thalictrum venulosum Trelease 



Shore of Lake Champlain south of Westport. H. D. House ioj2^, 

 July 12, 1924. 



Geranium Bicknellii Britton 



On rocks and ledges at Port Henry. H. D. House 10^26, July 12. 

 1924, along with Potentilla inclinata Vill., no. 10327. 



Phragmitis Phragmitis (L.) Karst. 



Banks of the Hudson river just below the bridge at Newcomb. 

 H. D. House lO/ii, September 21, 1924. The plants were rather 

 small and few of them were fruiting. The altitude here is about 

 1550 feet, and I have no record of this at any higher altitude in the 

 State. 



Eleocharis olivacea Torrey 



Muddy shores of the outlet of Lake Harris. Newcomb. H. D. 

 House loy^o, September 22, 1924. 



Gnaphalium Macounii Greene 

 Along a wood road near Newcomb. H. D. House lodg"/, Sep- 

 tember 20. 1924. Perhaps not native here. 



1 Bryologist 5 : 5- 1902. 



2 North American Flora 22 : 506. 1918. 



