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BRIEF NOTES ON LOCAL PLANTS 

 H. M. Denslow 



There is a large colony of Rhododendron maximum L. in the 

 town of West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey, It is on 

 a dry hillside in open woods, in and adjacent to a woodroad, long 

 disused, and accompanied by a vigorous growth of Kalmia 

 latifolia L. 



\ A small group of Conopholis americana (L. f.) Wallr, was 

 observed on August 4, 1927 near Greenwood Lake in the town 

 of Warwick, Orange County, New York. 



This past season has been favorable for many species of 

 Orchidaceae but not always for the perfecting of their fruit. 

 Of more than 200 plants of Fissipes acaulis counted in Mason- 

 ville, N. Y. and Burlington, Ct. that had bloomed, only two 

 had fruiting capsules. Perhaps their late blooming was too 

 late for the needed insect visitors. 



NOTES FROM ERIE COUNTY 



Anne E. Perkins 



In 1925 I found Serapias Hellehorine L., well established and 

 spreading in Cascade Park woods, near Springville, Erie County, 

 N. Y. This was the first time I had seen the plant, although 

 I had botanized often in the vicinity of Collins and on the 

 Reservation. In the present season I have found a most 

 amazing spread of Serapias; on the Reservation, where I have 

 never seen it previously, in remote, swampy woods, in hillside 

 thickets, and also in woods near the railroad, Collins. There 

 is no possibility of transmission by human agency in most of 

 these stations. The plant varies greatly in size and robustness, 

 also in the beauty of its coloring. Some plants resemble a 

 Cypripedium, stocky, with large leaves, over a foot tall, others 

 are slender and delicate. For over twenty years I have explored 

 the very places where it is now so plentiful, without finding it. 

 Mr. Frank W. Johnson has seen it occasionally in other parts 

 of the Reservation, but never so plentifully as this season.* 



In a recent letter Mr. Johnson writes, of Serapias, "I mow it in my lawn. 

 It fruits in my shrubbery and is abundant along important city streets." 



