Report of the State Botanist. 37 



LePIDIUM CAMPfiSTRE, L. 



Xear Ithaca. Dudley. Also near Coeymans and rapidly spread- 

 ing over the State. 



Lespedeza Stuvei, Nutt. 

 Ithaca. Dudley. 



EUBUS NEGLECTUS, Ph. 



West shore of Cayuga lake. Dudley. 



POTENTILLA RECTA, WHld. 



Xear Moravia. Dudley. 

 Agrimoxia paryiflora, Ail. 



Freeville and Danby, Tompkins county. Dudley. 



Crataegus coccixea var. macracantha. 



College campus, Ithaca and Union Springs. The thorns on the 

 specimens are four to four and a half inches long. 



Prunus pumila, L. 



South Hill, Ithaca. Dudley. Someof thefruic is swollen into 

 a pale, soft body, ovate or obovate in form and pointed at the 

 apex. This is the result of an attack by a fungus, Exoascus 

 Pruni, Fckl. This fungus also attacks the fruit of the wild plum, 

 Prunus Americatia, Marshall. I have also seen the fruit of our 

 wild black cherry, Primus serotina, swollen in a similar manner 

 but the cause in this case was from an attack of an insect, the 

 larvae of which were found in the affected fruit. 



SeDUM REFLEXUil, L. 



Thoroughly established by the roadside near Newark, "Wayne 

 county. E. L. Hankenson. 



EPILOBIUil MOLLE, ToTT. 



Sphagnous marsh in " Cheney's woods," near Glens Falls. Mrs. 

 L. A. Millington. The specimens sent are young plants and they 

 show at the base a dense cluster of very small thick subterranean 

 scale-like leaves, which might easily be mistaken for a cluster of 

 small tubers. They are arranged in pairs on opposite sides of the 

 stem, as are the leaves, and they appear whitish, thick and starchy 

 like cotyjedonous leaves. Their office is apparently similar to that 

 of cotyledouous leaves, that is, to store up nutriment upon which 

 the plant can draw at some subsequent period of its existence. 

 They do not appear upon the base of old plants or those which 

 have flowered and fruited. They are also found at the base of 

 young plants of Epilobium palustre. 



