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Salix tristis Ait. This bushy willow has been found in the 

 sandy grounds at Richmond Valley and at Tottenville; also one 

 bush at Rossville. Last year two small clumps were discovered 

 on Todt Hill near the old iron mine . 



Populus nigra L. On the edge of the bluff at Tottenville and 

 not far from the Billopp House, there is a large tree which we 

 have supposed for some years to be a black poplar. As the bluff 

 is being gradually eaten away by the sea, the tree will no doubt 

 ere long be precipitated to the beach below. Since the immediate 

 upland has been uncultivated for a number of years, many shoots 

 from the roots of the old tree have grown sufficiently large to 

 bear blossoms, but they produce only staminate flowers. All of 

 the trees have rather small leaves, not to be distinguished from 

 those of the Lombardy poplar, but the trees themselves are more 

 widely branching, as the photographs taken by Mr. Romeyn B. 

 Hough and myself on March 8, 1908, clearly show. Populus 

 nigra has been naturalized from Europe, but is not a common 

 tree. 



Rhus typhina L. Several large bushes of the staghorn sumach 

 were found last summer on " Egypt Island " in the meadows back 

 of Midland Beach. This is as far as I am aware the third 

 present locality on the island where there is a considerable 

 number of bushes. The clump of bushes at Uncle Ed. Wood's 

 Brook, Tottenville, discovered over twenty-five years ago still 

 exists, but the plants are dwarfed and in poor condition. Those 

 on the highest part of the Island at Ocean Terrace are of larger 

 growth, but are not numerous, and the locality is being gradually 

 destroyed. A single bush stood formerly on the westerly side of 

 Forest Hill Road northwest of Richmond, and it has also been 

 reported from Princes Bay. Mr. James Chapin has recently 

 found a large bush near Washington Ave., Green Ridge. 



