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use of a decoction of this herb. In the United States Dispensatory, 

 by Wood and Bache, Galium Aparine is noticed as having- been 

 used for dropsy, but I find no mention of this plant. 



Aster undulatus L. 



A strongly marked form occui'S near Carrollton. in which the 



leaves are mostly lanceolate with the margins very much curled or 



crisped. 



Aster Novi-Belgii L. 



Boreas Eiiver, Adirondack mountains. August. 



Antennaria plautaginifolia Hook. 



A peculiar form was collected in Sandlake, Rensselaer county. 

 The flower heads are three to five, mostly four, racemosely placed 

 at distances of a half inch or more. The stem is very slender, about 

 a foot high, and the leaves are narrow, scarcely exceeding half an 

 inch in the widest part. 



Rudbeckia triloba L. 



This cone flower occurs in several places along the road between 

 Rhiuebeck and Rock City in Dutchess county. As in Ulster county, 

 it appears to have escaped from cultivation in flower gardens. But 

 few' of the plants have the leaves three-lobed. 



Verbascum Lychnitis L. 



Sandy soil at Sylvan Beach, Oneida county. A form with white 



flowers. 



Calopogon pulchellus R. Br 



On the marsh near Kasoag a form was found having beautiful 

 lilac-tinted flowers. Plants having flowers of the ordinary color 

 grew near them and made the contrast more noticeable. 



Clintonia umbellata Torr. 

 This plant occurs as far east as Carrollton, Cattaraugus county. 

 Some plants have the ben-ies blue as in G. borealis, others have 



them black. 



Eleocharis intermedia Schultes. 



Cheney pond. August. A small form with culms two to five 

 inches long and spikes one to two lines. 



Scirpus Smithii Gray. 

 Sylvan Beach. July. 



