REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST. 37 
i LEPIDIUM CAMPESTRE, L. 
Near Ithaca. Dudley. Also near Coeymans and rapidly spread- 
ing over the State. 
LESPEDEZA STUVEI, NVuwtt. 
Ithaca. Dudley. 
RuBuUSs NEGLEcTuS, Pk. 
West shore of Cayuga lake. Dudley. 
POTENTILLA RECTA, Willd. 
Near Moravia. Dudley. 
AGRIMONIA PARVIFLORA, Ait. 
Freevyille and Danby, Tompkins Asana. Dudley. 
CRATZGUS COCCINEA var. MACRACANTHA. 
College campus, Ithaca and Union Springs. The thorns on the 
specimens are four to four and a half inches long. 
PRUNUS PUMILA, L. 
South Hill, Ithaca. Dudley. Some of the fruit is swollen into 
a pale, soft body, ovate or obovate in form and pointed at the 
} apex. This is the result of an ‘attack by a fungus, Hxoascus 
e Pruni, Fckl. This fungus also attacks the fruit of the wild plum, 
Prunus Americana, Marshall. I have also seen the fruit of our 
wild black cherry, Prunus serotina, swollen in a similar manner 
but the cause in this case was from an attack of an insect, te 
larvee of which were found in the affected fruit. 
SEDUM REFLEXUM, L. 
Thoroughly established by the roadside near Newark, Wayne 
county. LH. L. Hankenson. 
EPILOBIUM MOLLE, Torr. 
Sphagnous marsh in “ Cheney’s woods,” near Glens Falls. Mrs. 
L. A. Millington. ‘The specimens sent are young plants and they 
show at the base a dense cluster of very small thick subterranean 
scale-like leaves, which might easily be mistaken for a cluster of 
small tubers. They are arranged in pairs on opposite sides of the 
stem, as are the leaves, and they appear whitish, thick and starchy 
like cotyledonous leaves. ‘Their office is apparently similar to that 
of cotyledonous leaves, that is, to store up nutriment upon which 
. the plant can draw at some subsequent period of its existence. 
i _ They do not appear upon the base of old plants or those which 
2 have flowered and fruited. They are also found at the base of 
young plants of Hpilodiwm palustre. 
