A few unusual plants noted in Western New York 



Irving William Knobloch 



In an area as large as western New York, comprising as it 

 does, some seven counties, it is not unusual to find plants which, 

 although native to the region, occur in such small numbers and 

 in such out-of-the-way places that they have been overlooked 

 by botanists. Another factor which makes field botany an in- 

 exhaustible occupation and a very delightful one, is the slow 

 but constant influx of adventives from all portions of this and 

 foreign countries. 



One of the plants, which, judging by all the published rec- 

 ords, has been overlooked is Agrimonia parviflora Ait., the small- 

 flowered Agrimony. This plant, located at Protection, N. Y., is 

 rare also in the Cayuga Lake Basin area, according to Wiegand 

 and Eames. 



Lamium purpureum, the Red Dead Nettle, is a plant which 

 has become naturalized from Eurasia. It can be considered rare 

 in this part and in the central part of New York State. A single 

 plant was found at the City Hospital in Buffalo, N. Y. 



Both David F. Day and Frank Johnson, former local bota- 

 nists, located A stragalus canadensis ~L., a Milk Vetch more com- 

 mon farther west, on Squaw Island in the Niagara River. It 

 may be of interest to note that it also occurs farther north in 

 the river, on Cayuga Island. 



Coronilla varia L., the Axwort, was collected in the summer 

 of 1928 at Armour, N. Y. This is a native of Europe and has 

 been previously reported from Windom, N. Y. by Frank John- 

 son. 



Unpublished data indicates that Galinsoga ciliata (Raf.) 

 Blake, is known to occur sparingly in this area. However, it 

 may be recorded that the writer has found it rather abundant 

 in one or two places particularly in Buffalo, N. Y. 



Bromus commutatus Schrad., a native of Europe, is rapidly 

 gaining a foothold in the Tonawanda section of the state, fairly 

 close to Buffalo, N. Y. 



Southern plants are less likely to occur here than European 

 or western ones but Bidens coronata (L.) Fisch. has braved our 

 climate and can be seen growing by the thousands at Lincoln 

 Park near Tonawanda, N. Y. To the best of my knowledge, this 

 plant has not been hitherto recorded for this area. 



Allegany State Park 

 Red House, N. Y. 



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