numerous leaflets and very Ijristly stems. Good specimens of A. ros- 

 tellata and A. puhesccns show the peculiar tuherous-thickened roots 

 which offer the best means of identification. 



Distributional maps within the Torrey Club range, based on 

 specimens in the local herbaria of the New York Botanical Garden 

 (where the maps are now filed) and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 have been contributed by Miss Rusk, Dr. Gleason, Mr. Logan, and 

 Miss Ora Smith. 



III. QUERCUS 



The following notes cover only a few localized species within 

 the area of the Torrey Botanical Club •} 



Q. STELLATA Wang. (Post Oak). Apparently of scattered dis- 

 tribution throughout Long Island, and known from the adjacent 

 shore of Westchester County and along the Connecticut coast ; 

 Staten Island ; rather frequent in southern New Jersey, extending 

 north to Somerset and Essex Counties. Reported by Taylor (Flora 

 of the Vicinity of New York, p. 279) as rare and local in Bergen 

 and Hudson Counties and questionably from Warren County. 



Q. PRiNoiDES Willd. (Chinquapin Oak). Scattered in New- 

 Jersey and abundant in the barrens of Long Island. Otherwise in 

 the New York area only from Chester, Orange County. 



Q. MARYLANDiCA Mucuch. (Black Jack Oak). Represented 

 from Suffolk and Nassau Counties, L. I. ; from Staten Island; from 

 Middlesex County southward in New Jersey. 



Q. Phellos L. (Willow Oak). Staten Island and in New Jersey 

 from Middlesex County southward. 



Q. PALUSTRis Muench. (Swamp Oak). Apparently not east of 

 Nassau County on Long Island ; frequent in New Jersey and extend- 

 ing up the Hudson Valley to New Baltimore and Cairo in Greene 

 County. The limit of range in southern New York is not clear. 



IV. Ranunculus^ 



Only a few of the numerous species of the buttercups or crow- 

 foots are here recorded : 



R. MiCRANTHUS Nutt. This is essentially a hairy-stemmed 

 R. ahortivus, known chiefly from the central and southern states. 

 Its only stations in southern New York (with the exception of 



^ Distribution maps made by Mr. George H. Peters and Mr. Louis E. 

 Hand are on file at the New York Botanical Garden. 



