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Water lobelia. Lobelia Dortmanna. A water plant with a 

 rosette of submerged hollow fleshy leaves, and blue unsym- 

 metrical flowers in an erect spike that grows out of the water. 

 Rockland, Dutchess and Ulster Counties, New York, and 

 Bergen County, New Jersey. August. 



Stout golden rod. Solidago squarrosa. A tall, usually un- 

 branched golden rod with the tips of the bracts just below the 

 flower head prominently recurved. From Westchester, Put- 

 nam, Orange and Rockland Counties, New York, and Sussex 

 and Warren Counties, New Jersey. September. 



Yellow leaf-cup. Polymnia Uvedalia. A stout rough-hairy herb 

 with large, angled leaves and showy yellow flowers with notched 

 rays. Known only from Weehauken many years ago, and 

 wanted from anywhere else in the range. July. 



Sweet coltsfoot. Petasites palmatus. Low herb with whitish 

 flowers at the end of a scaly stalk appearing before the basal ' 

 deeply-cut leaves expand. Leaves densely white woolly on 

 the under side. Known only from Salisbury, Litchfield 

 County, Connecticut, and to be looked for along cool shaded 

 streams or swamps anywhere else. April or May. 

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all who write for it. 



Brooklyn Botanic Garden 



A New Gopherberry from the Gulf States 



There has always been misunderstanding in regard to the 

 species of Gayhissacia involved in the G. dumosa group. The 

 main trouble has resulted from trying to associate a name — 

 Gaylussacia hirtella — originally applied to a Northern shrub, 

 with an entirely different Southern shrub. The Vaccinium 

 hirtellum of Aiton was introduced into England about 1782. We 

 are safe in assuming that the specimens did not come from 

 Florida or the Gulf States. The specimens upon which Aiton 

 based his species very likely came from the Northern States where 

 forms of Gaylussacia dumosa occur with more numerous hirsute 

 hairs than usual. Although the range of Gaylussacia dumosa ex- 

 tends to the Gulf of Mexico and peninsular Florida, there is no 

 direct morphological connection between it and the species here 

 described as : 



