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plant as var. suhtomentosus. Unlike the typical form our 

 plant grew in thin dry soil covering rocks. It was partly 

 shaded by trees. 



Hieracium Marianum WiUd. 

 Highland lake, Sullivan county. July. Rare. 



Polygonum Douglassii Greene. 



Rocky summit of Cobble hill near Elizabethtown, Essex 

 county. September, 



This was formerly referred to P. tenue, but it is easily distin- 

 guished from that species by its drooping fruit. 



Potamogeton Vaseyi Bobbins. 



Thompson's lake, Albany county. August. Dr. Morong finds 

 it in Greenwood lake, Orange county. 



In general appearance it resembles P. diver sif alius, from 

 which it is easily separated by its larger fruit with the middle 

 keel rounded. 



Potamogeton pulcher Tackm. 



Riverhead, Suffolk county. E. S. Miller. Rare. 



Potamogeton major {Fr.) Morong. 



Cayuga and Seneca lakes. August. This is P.pusillus of the 



State Flora where it is credited to Crooked lake on the authority 



of Dr. Sartwell. In the Manuals it stands as P. pusillus var. 



major and P. mucronatus. I follow Dr. Morong in considering 



it a good species and I have adopted the name under which he 



publishes it. 



Carex glabra Boon. 



Taberg, Oneida county, and Cooperstown Junction, Otsego 



county. June. In the Taberg station it was growing in the 



midst of a patch of C. debilis. Its heavier spikes and dijfferent 



appearance at once attracted attention. 



Carex albursina Sheldon. 

 This plant has been considered a variety of C. laxifora and is 

 subjoined to that species as var. latifolia in the Manual. But it 

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