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American lotus. Nelumho lutea. An aquatic, with large leaves 

 raised above the surface, and with large yellow flowers. From 

 ponds or lakes in New York, or from New Jersey. Rare in its 

 occurrence, but plentiful where found. July. 



American globe flower. Trollius laxus. A buttercup-like mead- 

 ow plant with cut leaves, and lemon-yellow slightly globe- 

 shaped flowers. Dutchess, Ulster and Orange Counties in 

 New York. June. 



Gold thread. Coptis trifolia. Low, mostly bog or moist wood- 

 land plant with 3-divided toothed leaves, solitary white 

 flowers, and golden thread-like roots. South of the Highlands 

 of the Hudson. July. 



New York Monkshood. Aconitum novehoracense. Not unlike 

 the common garden monkshood ; with blue irregular flowers on 

 hairy stalklets. Known only from near Beaverkill, Ulster 

 County, New York, and from an unrecorded locality in Orange 

 County; wanted from anywhere else. Perhaps our rarest 

 local wild flower. July. 



Golden seal. Hydrastis canadensis. Woodland plant with 

 deeply cut toothed leaves, and solitary greenish-white flowers, 

 without petals. Known only from an old, perhaps apocryphal, 

 record near West Point, and desired from anywhere else. 

 April. 



Squirrel corn. Bicuculla canadensis. Much like the common 

 Dutchman's breeches, but the spurs shorter and not wide 

 spreading. In the Hudson valley, or from Sussex, Bergen and 

 Passaic Counties, New Jersey. May. 



Naked bishop's cap. Mitella nuda. A low herb with round hairy 

 basal leaves and usually none on the stem, flower a slender 

 spike, greenish-white. Known from the Highlands of Litch- 

 field County, Connecticut, and from Pennsylvania, but un- 

 known from similar places in New York and New Jersey. 

 May. 



Purple marshlocks. Comarum palustre. A bog herb with com- 

 pound leaves and purple flowers. Unknown from New York, 

 and recorded only from Budd's Lake, Morris County, New 

 Jersey. Wanted from anywhere else. July. 

 Three-toothed cinquefoil. Sibbaldiopsis tridentala. A low herb 

 of rocky summits, with compound leaves having notched 

 prickle-tipped leaflets and white flowers. Putnam, Orange and 



