146 THIRTY-FIFTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 
PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA, L. 
A singular form was found by Mrs. Rust near Syracuse. It 
had acompound spike, ovate in outline. The branches were short 
and densely crowded. It appeared as if many of the flowers had 
been transformed into short branches. 
PoTAMOGETON AMPLIFOLIUS, 7uckm. 
This fine large species is plentiful in Warner’s lake, East Berne. 
P. pusillus, P. pectinatus and both varieties of P. gramineus 
also abound there.‘ 
SMILAX HISPIDA, MuAl. 
Flowering specimens were found in Cicero swamp, Onondaga 
county, by Mrs. Rust. 
CALOPOGON PULCHELLUS, R. Br. 
A white-flowered form. Syracuse. Mrs, M. C. Sévll. 
JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA, L. 
This tree is common along the Hudson river from Albany to 
West Point. It here has a peculiar aspect. The branches are 
‘ very numerous and frequently diverge from the trunk at a small 
angle. They afford a dense spray beautifully symmetrical in out- 
line and having nearly the form of an elongated cone. Its beauty 
of figure renders it a very desirable acquisition for the adornment 
of parks, court-yards and ornamental grounds. It is freely at- 
tacked by three species of fungus, one of which produces oblong 
or spindle-shaped swellings in the branches and which probably 
has something to do in determining the peculiar aspect of these 
trees, The other two produce the subglobose galls which are 
commonly known as ‘Cedar apples.” These fungi do not ap- 
pear to destroy the life of the tree, though they cling to it year 
after year as a parasite. 
BROMUS TECTORUM, L. 
This beautiful introduced grass has become common all along 
the Hudson River railroad between Albany and Cold Spring and 
probably still farther south. Railroads are very effective agents 
in the dissemination and distribution of many plants. 
CorTINARIuS 10pES, B. & C. é 
The pileus in this species is sometimes spotted with white. 
The bulbous white stem is adorned with lilac-colored fibrils. 
LENZITES SEPIARIA, Jr. . 
This species usually inhabits wood of coniferous trees, but it 
sometimes occurs on other wood. It was found near Albany 
in company with Lenzites vialis on a prostrate trunk of the 
