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Rhododendron maximum L. 



This showy shrub orows in great profusion about Barry ville 

 and in other places in Sullivan county. The spots in the upper 

 side of the corolla are described as yellow, reddish or orange, but 

 in the Sullivan count}' plants they appear to me to be constantly 

 green. It may be designated form viridimaculatum. 



Lysimachia nummularia L. 



Near Brewerton, Onondaga county, the moneywort has become 

 so well established that it forms extensive carpets over the 

 ground and extends for a considerable distance in the damp 

 woods that skirt the outlet of Oneida lake. 



Lysimachia quadrifolia L. 



At Highland lake a form occurs in which the petals are tipped 

 or margined with orange. The leaves are commonly in whorls 

 of five or six. I have labeled it variety variegata, though per- 

 haps it should be considered a form, rather than a variety. 



Lysimachia striata Ait. 



This loosestrife is very variable. In a small swale near 

 Narrowsburg five forms. or varieties of it were collected. The 

 typical form has the leaves lanceolate, opposite and acute at both 

 ends and a rather long and closely flowered raceme with minute 

 subulate inconspicuous bracts. Two varieties have been desig- 

 nated ; one, var. jyroducta., which has a long loose raceme with 

 conspicuous foliaceous bracts ; the other, var. angustifolia, which 

 has the leaves narrowly lanceolate or linear and only one or two 

 lines broad, the raceme being rather few flowered. 



In the locality mentioned, the typical form, the variety ^)ro- 

 ductii., a form near var. angustifolia and a ternately leaved form 

 of the first two were found growing together and apparently 

 under the same conditions. What should cause these vai iatious ? 



The narrow leaved form differs from variety angustifolia in 

 having the leaves two to three lines broad, instead of one or two 

 lines, and the raceme wirh numerous flowers. It is therefore 

 intermediate between variety angustifolia and the ty])ical form. 

 I call it form intermedia. 



