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Smilax herbacea L. 



The common form of the species in this State, and which I take 

 to be the tx'pical form of the species, has ovate leaves, rarely nar- 

 rowly ovate, acute to acuminate and cuspidate at the apex, broadly 

 obtuse, rounded or subcordate at the base, the broadest ones being 

 broadest below the middle and more or less tapering to an abruptly 

 rounded, blunt or acute apex. 



var. latifolia House, var. nov. 



Leaf blades broadly rounded or suborbicular. rounded at the 

 cuspidate apex, entire, cordate or deeply cordate at the base, broadest 

 across the middle of the blade, 2-3 inches long and as broad, or the 

 lower leaves slightly broader than long, and the upper leaves slightly 

 longer than broad, somewhat paler green beneath than on the upper 

 surface, but neither downy nor distinctly glaucous. 



Thickets on the sand dunes along the east shore of Lake Ontario, 

 near Woodville. H. D. House 88^8, June 20-21, 1922. 



Lezvis county 



Eriophorum callithrix Cham. 



Open marsh near Watson. H. D. House loioo, June 18, 1924. 



Polemonium VanBruntiae Britton 

 Alder swamp west of Parkers (township of Montague), Neil 

 Hotclikiss 661, July i, 1923. Heretofore known only from a few 

 localities south of the Mohawk valley in the counties of Delaware. 

 Ulster, Otsego, Herkimer and Madison. 



Antennaria Parlinii Fernald 

 Thin woods near Copenhagen. /-/. D. House loopj, June 18, 1924. 



Madison county 

 Asarum acuminatum (Ashe) Bicknell 

 Rich leafmold in dense mixed forest of hemlock and hardwoods, 

 on Helderberg limestone formation, about 2 miles south of Oneida, 

 at an altitude of about 1000 feet. H. D. House 10018, June 12, 

 1924. This was described as a campestrian species, but its habitat 

 here is anything but that. The state herbarium also contains a 

 specimen collected by H. B. Lord at Ludlowville, Tompkins county. 



Rubus Baileyanus Britton 

 Roadside thicket near Oneida. H. D. House lOO^Sa, June 15, 

 1924. 



