Srate Musrum or NarurAt History. 53 
Lophiostoma angustilabrum, &.é br. Decorticated sticks. North 
Greenbush. June. 
Spherella Leersiw, Pass. Dead leaves of grass, Leersia oryzoides. 
North Greenbush. Sept. 
REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Thalictrum anemonoides, Wz. <A double-flowered form with 
the stamens transformed into oval greenish petaloid leaflets was de- 
tected near Coeymans, Albany county. Prof. J. S. St. John. 
Nuphar advena, Aid. A variety (near var. variegata) with large 
partly purplish flowers is not rare in the lakes and sluggish streams of 
the Adirondack wilderness. ‘lhe flower when pressed open is nearly 
three inches in diameter. A very noticeable variety occurs in Forked 
jake, Adirondack mountains, where it was first detected by Prof. P. 
A. Puissant. It may be characterized thus: Var. hybrida. Sepals 
six, rarely five, subequal, the three exterior often tinged with red; 
petals twelve to fourteen, generally thirteen, about as long as the con- 
tiguous stamens ; stigmatic disk red, umbilicate, ten to thirteen-rayed, 
the margin slightly crenate ; leaves small, with a paler greenish dash 
beneath on each side of the midrib, the sinus usually open; petioles 
flattened on the upper side. This variety grows in water four to 
eight feet deep in close proximity to a patch of Nuphar lutea var. 
pumila (N. Kalmiana, Pursh.) In size and character it is intermedi- 
ate between this and the ordinary form of WV. advena. It is smaller 
in all its parts than the latter and larger than the former and appears 
very much as if it might be a hybrid between them. ‘he number of 
the sepals connects it with WV. advena, but the disk of the stigma allies 
it more closely with V. Kalmiana. The flowers when outspread are 
nearly two inches across. When fresh they have an agreeable spicy or 
aromatic odor. In this respect they differ from our common forms of 
both species. 
Nymphea odorata, Ait. In stony ponds, Adirondack mountains, a 
small form was found in which the outspread flowers are scarcely two 
inches in diameter. Also a form in which the outer petals are tinged 
with pink. 
Cardamine hirsuta v. sylvatica, Gr. Thin dry soil covering rocks. 
_ Edmonds ponds. 
Vitis estivalis, Mv. A form with the leaves deeply and angularly 
five-lobed occurs in Sandlake. ‘The foliage at first sight appears as if 
it had been eaten, by insects. 
Prunus pumila, Z. Sandy shore near the outlet of Long lake, 
Adirondack mountains; the prostrate trailing form fruiting abun- 
dantly. 
Rais lucida, Hhrh. To this species I refer a very marked form oc- 
curring on the slopes of Mt. Defiance and near Westport, Essex county. 
The stems are armed, especially toward the base, with very numerous 
unequal, bristly prickles, the calyx lobes are scarcely gladular-bristly 
and the smooth fruit is ovate or elliptical. 
Ribes rotundifolium, M/z. Mt. Defiance. A form with leaves mostly 
about half an inch broad, as if starved and unthrifty, yet fruiting 
abundantly. 
