Report of the State Botanist. 35 



Microstylis monophyllos Lindl. 



Up to this time, fruiting specimens only have represented 

 K^his very rare and delicate little orchidaceous plant in the State 

 Herbarium. Two flowering specimens were found in June near 

 Taberg. 



Clintonia borealis Raf. 



Form lateralis. Like the typical form except in having a 

 lateral umbel or two on the side of the scape. These lateral 

 umbels consist of two to five flowers and are usuall}'^ two or three 

 inches apart. Commonly there is but one, which is one and a 

 half to three inches below the terminal one. When there are 

 ^ two the lower one has fewer flowers than the upper, and this 

 always has fewer than the terminal one. In one specimen there 

 are seven terminal flowers and five in the lateral umbel below 

 them. 



I do not deem this a variety, but a mere form which grows 

 intermingled with the typical form. I have observed it in 

 several places in the Adirondack region, where it is not rare, and 

 also near Cooperstown Junction. It seems singular that such 

 an interesting form has not yet been noticed in any of our 

 botanies. It was first recorded by me in the Fortieth Report, p. 73. 



c Juncus militaris Bigel. 



Highland lake. July. The plants are plentiful along the 

 shore of the lake, between Myers House and Sand beach. The 

 descriptive character, "rather contracted panicle," given in the 

 Manual, does not apply well to these plants, for they have the 

 panicle large and loose. It is generally about four inches long 

 and nearly as broad. In many of the plants the stem is rather 

 abruptly bent about midway between the insertion of the long 

 leaf and the panicle, or at the place of the large bract-like sheath- 

 ing base of an abortive upper leaf. Probably this abrupt flexure 

 has suggested the common name " bayonet rush," which is some- 

 times applied to the plant, and perhaps, also, the specific name 

 "militaris." Nevertheless no notice is taken of this very noticea- 

 ble character in the description given in the Manual. 



