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rather small, black when ripe and scarcely inferior in flavor to 

 that of the dewberry, R. Canaden-nn, or of the leafy blackberry 

 and of Millspaugh's blackberry. 



Galium Kaintschaticum Stell. 

 Mount Marcy. August. Britton. The specimens are in 

 fruit, but no flowers are shown. The species may be distin- 

 guished from the glabrous variety of Galium circcezans by its 

 long erect pedicels. 



CEnothera Oakesiana Bobbins. 

 Luzerne, Warren county. This is (E. biennis var. Oakesiana Gr. 



Chrysanthemuni segetum i. 



Introduced and growing in fields near Niskayuna, Schenectady 

 county. September. Bev. J. II. Wibbe. 



Artemisia serrata Nidt. 



Banks of the Mohawk, three miles below the aqueduct and 

 opposite Rock island. August. Wibbe. 

 An introduction from the west. 



Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. 

 Rocky hillsides. Whitehall. June. 



Blephilia ciliata Raf. 



Vaughn's, Washington county. S. H. Burnham. 



Polygonum cuspidatum 8. & Z. 

 Banks of the Mohawk below the aqueduct, Schenectady county. 

 August. Wibbe. Introduced as an ornamental plant, but some- 

 times escaping from cultivation. 



Quercus Brittoni Dams. 



Watchogue, Richmond count\^ September. W. T. Davis. 

 Mr. Davis considers this oak to be a hybrid between Quercus 

 nigra and Q. ilicifolia. 



