REPORT OF THE BOTANITST. 5 
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ViotA Munuensereu Tor". 5 
A dwarf form of this species was found in South Corinth, flowering freely 
the latter part of August. 
SEDUM TELEPHIOIDES Vx. 
This plant which is rare in our State, is reported by Hon. D. FP’. Day, 
to be growing at Chittenango Falls, high up on the face of the cliffs. 
ASTER MACROPHYLLUS J. 
A form occurs near Albany with purplish stems, broadly ovate cauline 
leaves and flowers with six to ten rays only. 
Aster Nova-Anouz JZ. var. roseus 7. & G. 
Buffalo. Clinton. 
ASTER ERICOIDES JL. var. vittosus 7. & G. 
Buffalo. Clinton. 
HIERACIUM AURANTIACUM JL. 
This plant is already fully established in several localities in our State, and 
is rapidly spreading. I have seen it in abundance in Rensselaer, Schoharie 
and Montgomery Counties, and it is reported by Mr. S. W. Cowles as fully 
established in Cortland County. It spreads both by seed and by runners. It 
thrives in hard gravelly soils, by roadsides, in pastures and in meadows, and 
bids fair to rival the daisy as a noxious weed. It forms a densé carpet of hairy 
leaves closely pressed to the surface of the ground, and sends up its flowering 
stems a foot or more high. These bear at their summit a cluster of beautiful 
orange-colored flowers, which give a very showy appearance to the fields they 
occupy. The growth of the plant is very rapid. One field that had been 
plowed in the spring was red with the blossoms of this weed the middle of 
June Meadows containing it, after haying been mowed, quickly send up a 
second crop of flowering stems. It is pronounced by farmers to be worthless 
as fodder, and it is doubtful if it can be kept down except by thorough culti- 
vation of the soil. 
SHEPHERDIA CANADENSIS Nuit. 
Rocky places near Central Bridge and Sprakers. 
CHENOPODIUM ALBUM JL. 
This species at present is made to include a variety of forms, some of which 
do not well harmonize either in general aspect or in detaiis of character. A 
common form about Albany has wide-spreading branches, broad leaves with 
numerous teeth, usually five to ten on each side, large dense clusters of fruit, 
usually intermingled with leaves but sometimes becoming leafless, and seeds 
very large, fully equal in diameter to the seeds of C. hybridum. This form 
differs so widely, in its whole aspect and in all the characters mentioned, from 
the ordinary narrow-leaved form, C. viride, that unless they are clearly con- 
nected by intermediate forms it would seem better that they should be kept 
distinct. 
