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employ an active pig, first putting a muzzle upon the "shovel' 

 of the field assistant. 



All are parts of a plan well laid, 

 Including "freakish" things we see; 

 Why then should mortal dare upbraid 

 An idiosyncrasy. 

 N. J. College Experiment Station, 

 New Brunswick, N. J. 



THE NAIADALES OF THE FLORA OF THE LAKE 

 GEORGE REGION 



By Stewart H. Burnham 



Since July i, 1891, when I collected my first pondweed, 

 Potamogeton natans, some attention has been devoted to this 

 interesting genus in the region covering the counties of Washing- 

 ton, Warren and Saratoga, New York. Potamogetons are 

 specially well represented in the bays of Lake George, and in 

 Furnace Creek, which flows into South Bay, near the head of 

 Lake Champlain. 



I well recollect a call on the late Dr. Geo. D. Hulst, August 28, 

 1899, when he was stopping on Assembly Point, Lake George; 

 and how he spread out his fine collection of pondweeds. At the 

 time I went through the herbarium at the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences, October 5 and 12, 1901, but a small portion of 

 Dr. Hulst's specimens had been mounted and placed in the 

 herbarium. A few months afterwards Mrs. Hulst loaned me a 

 book in which an exact copy of the Lake George plant labels had 

 been made, before turning over the collections to the Institute. 

 This list contained records of several pondweeds; the specimens 

 of which I have been unable to examine. Dr. Hulst began his 

 collection of pondweeds in 1891 ; but during the latter years of his 

 life, 1 898-1 899, preserved most of his specimens. These speci- 

 mens are now preserved in the herbarium of the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden. 



The Dr. Chas. H. Hall's specimens are also preserved in the 

 herbarium of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. There is no doubt 



