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Small white ladies'-slipper. Cypripedium candidum. A leafy- 

 stemmed white-flowered relative of the mocassin flower. 

 Bergen, Warren, Sussex, and Morris Counties in New Jersey, 

 and adjacent New York. June. 



Long-bracted orchis. Coeloglossiim hracteatum. A leafy-stem- 

 med green-flowered orchid with bracts at least three times 

 longer than the flowers. Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, 

 Orange, and Rockland Counties in New York, and adjacent 

 New Jersey. 



Smaller whorled Pogonia. Isotria affinis. Foliage resembling 

 cucumber root, and a pair of terminal green flowers. One of 

 the rarest local plants; desired from anywhere. Collected 

 originally at Closter, New Jersey, and scarcely ever seen since. 

 June. 



White adder's-mouth. Malaxis monophylla. With a single 

 broad-leaf and slender terminal spike of small whitish flowers. 

 Known only from Sam's Point, Ulster County, and Pine 

 Plains, Dutchess County, New York. Rare, and desired from 

 anywhere else. July. 



Putty root. A plectrum hyemale. A raceme of delicate yellow- 

 ish-brown flowers, followed, weeks later, by a single basal 

 broad leaf. Putnam, Orange, and Rockland Counties in New 

 York, and Morris County, New Jersey. May. Leaf in 

 August or September. 



Pellitory. Parietaria pennsylvanica. An alternate-leaved herb 

 with toothless leaves and small clusters of axillary green 

 flowers. Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster, Orange and Rockland 

 Counties in New York, and adjacent New Jersey. July. 



Virginia snakeroot. Aristolochia Serpentaria. A greenish tu- 

 bular S-shaped flower, with alternate stalked leaves, heart- 

 shaped at the base. Dutchess, Ulster, Orange, and Rockland 

 Counties in New York, and adjacent New Jersey. June. 



Carolina spring beauty. Claytonia caroliniana. Like the com- 

 mon sort, but with broader leaves. From anywhere below 

 1,000 feet elevation. Unknown in New Jersey. April. 



Mountain starwort. Arenaria groenlandica. A low cushion-like 

 plant with almost moss-like foliage, and a few wnite flowers 

 on slender branched stalks. From anywhere below i,ooo feet 

 elevation, especially in the Highlands of the Hudson, or from 

 High Point, Sussex County, New Jersey. Common on the 

 peaks of the Catskills. June to September. 



