Report of the State Botanist. 27 



Cicuta bulbifera L. 



In our State this plant usually blossoms and fruits very spar- 

 ingly. Generally but a single umbel of flowers is developed and 

 that terminates the main stem. Sometimes the two uppermost 

 branches, which usually overtop the stem, are also terminated 

 each by an umbel of flowers. Rarely very thrifty plants are 

 still better furnished with flowers. The branches are generally 

 well furnished with bulblets. The more the flowers the fewer 

 the bulblets. 



Solidago uliginosa Nutt. 



Lake Pleasant. August. 



This is a peculiar form in which the panicle is small, dense, 

 oblong or thyrsiform and mostly somewhat recurved. 



Aster undulatus L. 



A very noticeable form of this species is found in &vy sandy 

 soil at Karner and also on Long Island. The leaves are thick, 

 scabrous above, wavy on the margin, broadly or narrowly ovate, 

 dark colored and all, except three or four near the base of the 

 stem, are sessile by a heart-shaped base. The branches are 

 clothed by ovate or oblong-ovate abruptly pointed bracts and 

 bear the flowers mostly near the end either singly or somewhat 

 clustered. 



It might easily be thought to be a hybrid between Aster 

 undulatus and A. patens which is generally associated with it or 

 found near it, though this species flowers earlier than A. 

 undulatus. 



Aster cordifolius L. var. laevigatas Porter. 



Woods and open places. Lake Mohonk, Ulster county. 

 September, 



This variety of the heart-leaved aster was discovered by Pro- 

 fessor Porter in Pennsylvania. It also occurs in N'ew Jersey, 

 where Professor Britton sa\^s, it is quite as abundant as the spe- 

 cies itself. It has also been reported from Staten Island and 

 Westchester county in this State, but has not before been found 

 so far north as Lake Mohonk. It is a variety strongly marked 

 by the wing-margined petioles, the longer smooth leaves with 



