Report of the State Botanist. 27 



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REMAKES AND OBSERVATIONS. 

 Anemone Virginiana L. var, alba Wood. 

 This variety is common in the hilly parts of Sullivan county, 

 where it is the prevailing form. It sometimes forms patches of 

 considerable extent. It does not, so far as I have seen, mingle 

 with the typical form and I am disposed to think that it is a 

 good variety. 



Ranunculus circinatus Sibth. 

 Fine specimens of this water crowfoot were obtained in 

 Cayuga lake. The peduncles become deflexed" or curved down- 

 wards in fruit. 



Silene stellata Ait. 

 A form of this plant occurs near Narrowsburg, Sullivan 

 county, in which all the leaves, or all except those of a single 

 whorl, are opposite. It is not uncommon to find a few of the 

 uppermost and of the lowest ones opposite, but this form is 

 apparently rare. Another form has the leaves beautifully 

 crisped or undulate on the margin. 



Prunus Americana Marsh. 

 The flowers of this native plum are usually white. A form 

 occurs near Meadowdale, Albany county, and near Westport 

 Essex county, in which they have the rosy hue of peach blos- 

 soms. It might be called variety rosea. 



Rubus Canadensis L. 

 This lotv blackberry or dewberry is capable of adapting itself 

 to a great variety of soils and circumstances. These sometimes 

 affect its mode of growth. Plants were found growing among 

 bushes in low swampy ground near Pine Plains, Dutchess 

 county, in which t he f- tern was quite as erect as in Rubus villosus. I 

 have indicated in a previous report that whenever, through poverty 

 of soil or for other reasons the prickly stemmed species of 

 Rubus are unable to develop fully or grow freely this starved 

 condition is shown by the failure of the prickles. The same 

 thing has been observed to be the result of an attack of rasp- 



