RUBIACEAE 



DiODiA TERES Walt. Occasional in dry open soil. Cold Spring Harbor; 

 X'alley Stream; Springfield: South of Jamaica; Aqueduct; Sag Harbor; 

 Garden City; Oakdale; Miilncck. 



OROBANCIIACKAE-: 



LEPT.\MNir.M viR(,rM.\NiM (L.) Raf. Occasional in beech woods. Mill- 

 stone; Queens; Smithtown; Montauk. The above are in my herbarium 

 but I have observed and noted this plant in the following localities: 

 Plattsdale; Roosevelt; South of Hempstead; Bridgehampton, Locust 

 \'alley; Bayside. 



CoNOPHOLis .\MERic.\N.\ (L.f.) Wallr. Rare in rich hilly woods at base of 

 trees. Locust X'alley. I can find no previous record for Long Island. 



COMPOSITAE 



SoLiD.\GO .\sPERrt.\ Ait. Rare on borders of salt marshes and near them. 



Merrick; Millneck; Point-on-Woods; Bayville; East Islip. 

 Aster Herveyi A. Gray. Rare in dry hilly oak woods and their borders. 



Lily Pond, Sag Harbor. A few days before discovering this colony Mr. 



Roy Latham found a colony a short distance south of Lily Pond. 

 Gnaph.\lium Helleri Britton. Rare in dry pine barren and oak woods 



and thickets. Sag Harbor (Latham and Ferguson); Great River. 

 El'patorium leccolepis T. and G. Very rare in sandy swamps and shores. 



Fore and Aft Pond, Sag Harbor (Latham and Ferguson). 

 Eupatorium sessilifolium L. Rare in woods and thickets. Green vale; 



Port Washington; Deer Park; Wyandanch; East of Meadowbrook. 

 Eup.^torium .album L. Rare in dn.' pine and oak woods and also in moist 



soil. Pine barrens at Speonk. 

 Helenium .autumx.ale L. Rare in swamps but occasionally in large colonies. 



South of Jamaica; Flushing; Woodside. 



Hempstead, Long Island. 



White-fruited Bane-berries 



Kenneth K. M.ackenzie 



For many years American botanists were familiar with two 

 species of bane-berry, the first with oval or ellipsoid red berries 

 on slender pedicels in an ovoid raceme, the second with short 

 oval white berries on thick pedicels in an oblong raceme. The 

 first of these appeared in our botanies as Actaea rubra (Ait.) 

 Willd. and the second as Actaea alba (L.) Miller. Then when 



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