Report of the Local Flora Committee 



II. Agrimonia 



The accompanying plate^ illustrates a leaf and details of stem- 

 pubescence of each of the following species : 



A. CRYPOSEPALA Wallr. PI. I, fig. 4. A northern species extend- 

 ing southward to Long Island (where it appears to be the com- 

 monest of the agrimonies), northern Staten Island, and infre- 

 quently in New Jersey south to Somerset County. The pubescence 

 is characterized by short stipitate glands as well as by rigid long 

 hairs. 



A. ROSTELLATA Wallr. PI. I, fig. 3. A southern species, extend- 

 ing to Plattsdale, L. I. {Ferguson) ; Middletown and Kent, Conn., 

 and to Westchester County, N. Y. 



A. PUBESCENS Wallr. (including A. Bicknellii (Kearney) 

 Rydb.). PL I, figs. 2, 5. Abundantly represented in the herbaria 

 from Long Island and adjacent Westchester County, with scat- 

 tered specimens from Putnam and Ulster Counties; apparently 

 common in the northern half of New Jersey, but there are no 

 specimens from Sussex County. 



A. STRIATA Michx. PI. I, fig. L A northern species extending 

 south to Glen Cove and Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. ; represented in 

 New Jersey from Sussex, Union, Middlesex, Hunterdon, and Mon- 

 mouth (at Marlboro) Counties. 



A. PARViFLORA Soland. PL I, fig. 6. Essentially southern, but 

 known on Long Island only from Glen Cove and Cold Spring 

 Harbor. There are several collections from Staten Island and 

 Bronx County ; also specimens from White Plains, Nyack, Yonkers 

 and from Hamptonburgh, Orange County. Otherwise A. parviflora 

 seems to be unknown from the Torrey Club range in southern New 

 York. It is widely distributed in New Jersey, but there are no speci- 

 mens from Sussex, W^arren, Morris, Hunterdon, Mercer, or Middle- 

 sex Counties. 



The stem of A. striata is bristly-hairy, without glands; in 

 A. pubescens the pubescence is soft-velvety; in A. rostcllata the 

 stems are nearly glabrous with numerous short-stalked glands and 

 scattered bristle-hairs; in A. gryposepala both glands and bristle- 

 hairs are abundant; lastly, A. parviflora is easily recognized by the 



^ Drawn by Miss Maud H. Purdy of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



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