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Report of the State Botanist. 41 



Magnolia glauca L. 

 This small but beautiful tree has long been credited to Long 

 Island, but I have been able to find it in only a single locality . 

 In this place the trees are ten or twelve feet higli and very 

 slender, the trunk scarcely exceeding an inch or an inch and a 

 half in diameter. The branches ai'e short, which give the trees 

 a rather strict appearance. The flowers are creamy-white and 

 the fruit globular rather than "oblong." In the N. Y. State 

 Flora its blossoming time is said to be May and June, but the 

 past summer the trees were yet in blossom on the fifteenth of 

 July. It is greatly to be hoped that the owners of the land 

 where these trees grow will not allow them to be destroyed . 

 There are not many of them, and it is possible they may be the 

 only wild representatives of the species in our State . 



Arabis perfoliata Lam. 

 This rare plant still exists on the rockj?- banks of the Black 

 river below AVatertown, where it was found more than fifty 

 years ago. 



Buda rubra Bumont. 



Hempstead Plains. July. A small form three or four inches 

 high. 



Hypericum Ascyron L. 



This plant which is not common in our State has been found in 

 Washington county. Burnham. 



Erodium Cicutarium Z' Her. 

 Fields near Schenectady. July. Wihhe. 



Floerkea proserpinacoides Willd. 

 Near Syracuse. Mrs. L. L. Goodrich. 



Vitis aestivalis Mx. var. bicolor Le Conte. 

 Whitehall. Jidy, , 



Polygala polygama Walt. 

 West side of Mount Defiance on thin soil covering rocks. 

 June. A form having pale-pinkish flowers was collected near 

 Riverhead; also near Amagansett. July. 

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