Additions to the Flora of Staten Island^ 



Philip Dowell 



The following list includes a few native plants not previously 

 reported from Staten Island, some that have been recently re- 

 corded elsewhere but not in the publications of this Association, 

 and others that have already been recorded in the Proceedings 

 or in the Flora of Richmond County,^ but for which records of 

 new localities are here given. Occasional notes are added in 

 connection with some of the records. 



Note. — The names of plants not previously reported in the 

 records of the local flora of the island are designated by an aster- 

 isk. The numbers printed in italics and inclosed in parentheses 

 are those of herbarium specimens collected by the author. The 

 ferns proper are discussed in a separate paper. Lycopodium is 

 listed first, otherwise the names appear in alphabetic order. Most 

 of the grasses have been determined or verified by Mr. G. V. 

 Nash, and the sedges by Mr. K. K. Mackenzie. 



Lycopodium lucidulum Michx. 



Woods west of Egbertville, Aug. 31, 1907 (i-f/p). This is the 

 only place on Staten Island where I have found the species during 

 eight seasons of collecting on the island, but in 1879 it was re- 

 ported as common. 



Lycopodium obscurum L. is found occasionally, but it is com- 

 paratively scarce, and L. complanatum L. is now rare. Both of 

 these were "common" in 1879. Neither of the other two re- 

 ported in 1879, L. inundatum L. and L. clavatum L., have been 

 seen growing on the island on any of my field trips during the 

 past eight yc"rs. 



^Presented May 20, 1911. 



^ HoUick, A., and Britton, N. L. Flora of Richmond County, New York, 

 1-36. 1879. Additions and New Localities, 1879; 1880-1882; 1883-1884; 

 188s; 1886-1889; 1890; 1891-1895. 



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