ginica (L.) Kunth., Zizania aquatica L., Cyperus esculentus I.., 

 Pontederia cordata L., Potamogeton nat-ans L., Phragmites com- 

 munis Trin., Vallisneria spiralis L., Nelumbo lutea (Willd.) 

 Pers., and Pro sera carol iniensis Walt. 



Nyssa sylvat icg Marsh., the Black or Sour Gum, is an infre- 

 quent component of the park flora. Recently a specimen was 

 located on one of the ridges, so large that it is worth while to 

 record its measurements. This tree is seventy-one and a half 

 feet tall. I estimate that twenty feet of top is missing, having 

 broken off at some time in the past, which would bring its actual 

 height to ninety feet or better. The diameter at breast height 

 is thirty-one and two-tenths inches. The ridges of the bark are 

 four to five inches from trough to crest. 



Western New York: — 



Pinus rigida Mill., the pitch pine, has never been located in 

 Western New York, according to the manuals. Lumbermen and 

 old settlers, in the vicinity of Allegany State Park, were aware 

 of this tree although they were unfamiliar with its name. From 

 all reports, it occurred sparingly along the Allegany river and 

 was cut along with the Hemlock and the White Pine, in the 

 lumbering operations so widespread and so destructive here. At 

 least two specimens are left; one near the Quaker Run nursery 

 and the other up Crick's Run. In this connection it may be wise 

 to mention the fact that an experimental planting of one thou- 

 sand pitch pine transplants were set out in a slashing up Yater 

 Hollow, in the Park. 



Thelypteris marginalis (L.) Sw. var. elegans J. Robinson 

 seems to be a new record also. A single plant, unusual because 

 of its bifurcating fronds was located in the township of Clar- 

 ence on November 20, 1933. 



Two forms of the Christmas fern, Polystichum acrostichoides 

 (Michx.) Schott., were located in the Allegany State Park dur- 

 ing the summer of 1933. These are forma lobatum and forma 

 revolens. 



Epilobium angustifolium L. forma albiflorum (Dumort.) 

 Haussk. has been collected in the Allegany State Park, for the 

 first Western New York record. A search the following year 

 failed to disclose any signs of it, which corroborates the theory 

 that it reverts to the species and hence is not stable. 



