BOTANICAL 

 QARDSN 



TORREYA 



Vol. 33 January-February, 1933 No. 1 



Plant records from Buffalo and vicinity 

 Irving William Knobloch 



The purpose of this article is twofold; to honor the memory 

 of the late Dr. G. Claude Hicks, Professor of Biology at the 

 University of Buffalo, and to add materially to the records of the 

 flora of the Buffalo region. 



The following list of plants is a record of those collected by 

 Dr. Hicks, together with a few by the author, during the season 

 of 1928. The intensive collections of the Cyperaceae testify to his 

 interest in that group and, indeed, it may safely be said that he 

 was one of the most promising investigators in the cytology of 

 that difficult group. The results of his labor there may be ob- 

 served in the November 1928 and in the October 1929 issues 

 of the Botanical Gazette. 



Dr. Hicks sent duplicates of all his collections to the Gray 

 Herbarium where they were critically determined through the 

 courtesy of Professor M. L. Fernald and Dr. Lyman Smith. 



Plant records from western New York and adjacent Canada 

 are limited to four or five publications of note and the basis for 

 recognizing new stations and additions to the flora must neces- 

 sarily rest on these published accounts. These are the records 

 of David F. Day in his catalogue of the plants of Buffalo and 

 vicinity with two supplements; a catalogue of the plants of the 

 Niagara Falls region, by the same author; a catalogue of Cana- 

 dian plants by John Macoun, as published in the "Geological 

 Survey of Canada" ; and a list of plants from Point Abino, 

 Ontario, Canada, published in "The Canadian Field Naturalist" 

 by Homer D. House. Access was also had to a herbarium of 

 local plants collected and presented to the Buffalo Society of 

 Natural Sciences by Frank Johnson. 



Equisetum arvense L. North Evans, N. Y. 9/29/28 K. N.S. 



Sagittaria latifolia Willd. 



forma hastata Robinson E. Aurora, N. Y. 8/7/28 K. 



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