Report of tee State Botanist. 29 



Polygonella articulata Meisn. 

 The plant is abundant in the sandy region between Albany 

 and Schenectady. Its flowers are generally described as rose-col- 

 ored or flesh-colored. They are sometimes white. Nearl}'^ all 

 the plants in the region mentioned had white flowers the present 

 season though in former seasons they have been generally rose- 

 colored. What made the difference ? 



Populus balsamifera X. 



Kot rare in the Adirondack region. Near Elizabethtown, 

 Essex county, are trees which appear to connect the species and 

 the variety candicans. The leaves on the older branches are 

 truncate or subcordate, but those on the 3'oung and thrifty 

 branches and shoots from the roots are somewhat pointed at the 

 base as in the type. The hairiness of the petiole is scarcely per- 

 ceptible. 



Clintonia umbellata Torr. 

 Fine flowering specimens were found near CarroUton. The 

 leaves and scape are general!}^ more or less pubescent. The 

 umbel consists of six to eighteen small white flowers in a close 

 erect cluster. Usually there is a bract just below the umbel. It 

 grows in damp places either in pastures or in woods, and is in 

 flower in June. 



Erythronium Americanum Ker. 



The bulbs of this plant sometimes emit long white leafless rnn- 

 ners or offsets which come to the surface and after describing an 

 irregular curve a few inches long, thrust the growing tip beneath 

 the surface again. One bulb, dug from beneath the deca3dng 

 leaves, had a leaf at one end and two offsets growing from the 

 other. 



Cyperus dentatus Torr. 



Abundant on the sandy shore of Lake Pleasant. The spikes 

 are changed to leafy tufts in almost every plant in this locality. 



Eleocharis tuberculsosa R. Br. 

 Erastina, Richmond county. November. N. L. Britton. 



