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Vaccinium vacillans Kalm; blue toad-flax, Linaria canadensis 

 (L.) Dum. and rattlesnake-weed, Hieracium venosum L., with 

 basal leaves green and purple-veined were also found. In the 

 woods west of Kreischerville a small patch of primrose-leaved 

 violet in bloom; and along the road, escaping from old gardens, 

 the star-of- Bethlehem, Ornithogalum umbellatum L., were noted. 

 These were some of the more conspicuous plants which were 

 recorded in my notebook. To those who are unfamiliar with the 

 flora of New York City, the metropolis would seem an un- 

 interesting botanical field. This is only one of the many excur- 

 sions that may be taken in the city, and much of the original 

 flora still exists. 



Hudson Falls, N. Y. 



OBSERVATIONS ON CALOPOGON PULCHELLUS IN 

 LAKE CO., INDIANA 



By Edwin D. Hull 



This species, which is fairly abundant near Hammond, differs 

 widely in its time of flowering according to the habitat in which 

 it grows. The 7th edition of Gray's Manual gives July as the 

 flowering time in the range covered by that book. In this region, 

 however, it may bloom nearly a month earlier. Here among the 

 beach ridges of the old Lake Chicago plants are to be found in 

 two very different habitats. More numerous and vigorous plants 

 are found in depressions between the ridges with a typical swamp 

 or bog flora. In one of these depressions I found Calopogon 

 very abundant. Occurring with it were various species of true 

 moss, a little Sphagnum, Equisetum arvense, E. fluviatile, Lyco- 

 podium inundatum, Carex Oederi pumila, Pogonia ophio gloss aides, 

 Liparis Loeselii and Drosera rotundifolia. Most of these, al- 

 though not all, are typical bog forms. This particular depression, 

 therefore, partakes more of the nature of a bog than an ordinary 

 swamp. It is evidently fed by springs, and standing water 

 r-an be fcnmd the year round. All the other depressions about 

 it contain only the ordinary swamp flora. Here in this bog 



