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

 that of the dewberry, JR. Canadenxi.s. 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. 



Chrysanthemum, segetum. L. 



Introduced and growing in fields near Xiskayuna, Schenectady 

 county. September. Rev. J. H. Wibhe. 



Artem.isia serrata Nxctt. 



Banks of the Mohawk, three miles below the aqueduct and 

 opposite Rock island. August. Wibhe. 

 An introduction from the west. 



Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. 

 Rocky hillsides. "Whitehall. June. 



Blephilia ciliata Raf. 

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



Polygonum, cuspidatum. /S". <h Z. 

 Banks of the Mohawk l»elo\v the a(|ueduct, Schenectady county. 

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

 times escaping from cultivation. 



Quercus Brittoni I'avis. 

 Watchogue, Richmond county. Se])tember. W. T. Davis. 

 Mr. Davis considers this oak to be a liybrid between Querotts 

 nigra, and Q. ilicifolia. 



