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was found producing berries of unusual size. Many of them were 
found by actual measurement to be fully a half inch in diameter. 
They were sweet and agreeable to the taste and grew in close clusters 
of three to six berries. ‘This form would be a most desirable one to 
introduce into cultivation if it can be made to thrive as well in other 
localities as it does in its native one. The same variety, bearing 
- more abundant though smaller fruit, was found growing In a marsh 
in the same town. ‘his would indicate its adaptability to a variety of 
soils, 
Clethra alnifolia, Z. 
The sweet pepper bush or white alder is abundant about Spruce 
pond near Southfield; alsoon Skunnemunk mountain. In the former 
locality, a plant of Leucothoé racemosa was also observed. 
Menyanthes trifoliata, L. 
Spruce pond near Southfield. The flowers are dimorphous. On 
some plants the stamens are longer than the pistils, on others shorter. 
Apocynum androsemifolium, L. 
There are two forms of our common dogbane, in one of which the 
flowers are nearly twice as large as in the other. 
Celtis occidentalis, L. 
Near Saugerties. The hackberry is not rare in the lower part of the 
Hudson river valley, but northward and westward it is seldom found. 
I am informed that a tree of this species growing in the Mohawk 
valley, near Sprakers, is such a novelty that it has received from the 
inhabitants the name of ‘‘ the unknown tree.” 
Nyssa multiflora, Wang. 
Abundant on Skunnemunk mountain where it forms a tall tree and 
has a trunk twelve inches or more in diameter at the base. 
Betula nigra, L. 
The red birch was admitted into the New York Flora by Dr. Torrey, 
on the authority of Dr. J. Carey, who gave Saugerties as its locality. 
No specimens were placed in the Herbarium. Desiring New York 
specimens, I visited Saugerties and found several trees growing along 
the banks of the Aisopus river south of Saugerties. The species is 
easily known by its rough bark, curved branches and long drooping 
branchlets. The bark of young trees is smooth and whitish or red- 
dish-white and such trees might easily be mistaken for the paper birch 
or poplar leaved white birch. 
Alnus viridis, D. C. 
Plentiful on Cobble hill, also along the road between Elizabethtown 
and Keene. ° 
Arisema triphyllum, Jor. 
The apex of the spadix of the Indian turnip is generally obtuse. A_ 
specimen was found near Albany, in which the spadix was abruptly 
