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SO that leaf-bearing specimens are yet wanting. I do not find this 

 })hint recorded in any of the local catalogues of plants of various 

 parts of the State, and Dr. Torrey admitted it in the New York 

 Flora with the following explanatory remark : '- 1 am not quite cer- 

 tain that I have received specimens of this plant from within the 

 limits of the State ; but it doubtless grows in some of the northern 

 counties. " The result has proved the accuracy of his supposition, 

 but the plant is evidently rare in our State. 



Potaiuogeton pauciflorus PursJi. 

 A. peculiar form of this species occurs in Glass lake, Rensselaer 

 count}'. The stems are 1 to 2 feet long, the spikes numerous 

 and axillary and the foliage of a dull-brownish or reddish-brosvn 

 color, quite unlike the ordinary bright-green hue of the species. 



Pogonia affinis Aust. 



In a swamp near Tappantown, Rockland county. June. £J. F. 

 Smith. 



Jiincus Canadensis var. coarctatiis Engelm. 



This plant sometimes has the flower heads wholh^ or in part 

 changed to enlarged leafy buds, or rather galls, for they are pro- 

 duced by the attacks of insects. 



Clitopiliis Xoveboracensis Pk. 



Sometimes the pi lens is dark-brown, much darker than in the 

 typical torn]. There is also a variety tomentosii^es, in which the stem 

 is clothed with a whitish or grayish hairy tomeutum. The plants 

 are also sometimes csespitose. Sandlake. July. 



Entolonia strictior vai-. isabellinus Pk. 



Pileus, when moijt, of a watery isal)elline hue and striatulate on 

 the margin, when dry, whitish or i)ale straw color. 

 Sphagnous marshes. Sandlake. August. 



Clavaria anietliystiua Bull. 

 Woods. Sandlake. July. 



Sometimes the color inclines to a grayish-violaceous hue. Both 

 the small sparsely branched and the aljundantly branched forms 

 occur, 



Dacryniyces conglobatus PA. 



Plate 1, tigs. 1-4. 



In the Thirty-second Report, this was [novisionally refcMicd to the 

 genus Dacrymyccs. It is ap[)arently Pt'dza ruheUa Pers., and Out- 



