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The habit and the fohage of the lw(j species in riueslion are 

 much the same, hut in the inflorescence of Abama monlana we 

 find long slender pecHcels, and in the flower itself larger sepals 

 and petals, larger stamens and smaller capsules than in Abama 

 americanum. 



The type specimens were collected near Flat Rock, North 

 Carolina by F. M. Crayton, July, 1919, in flower, and at the 

 same place by C. D. Beadle and F. M. Crayton, later in the 

 same month, in fruit. Type specimens are in the herbarium of 

 The New York Botanical Garden. 

 ^ John K. Small 



CROWBERRY AT MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND 



Norman Taylor and Helen Smith Hill 



The discovery of Empetrum nigrum within a couple of hundred 

 feet of the temporary laboratory of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden at Montauk, Long Island, brings an interesting species 

 into the local flora range, and, of course, into the flora of Long 

 Island. 



The plant was found on the open exposed Downs about 1500 

 feet west of the Ditch Plain Coast Guard Station, within 100 

 feet of the bluflf that at this point overlooks the ocean beach, 

 which is here about forty feet below the Downs. 



While the plant is known at sea level along the cool shores 

 of the coast of Maine, and from mountain summits above timber- 

 line in the Adirondacks, and some of the higher mountains of 

 New England, it has never before been recorded from an3'^vhere 

 on the coastal plain of the local flora area. As in the case of the 

 cloudberry {Ruhus Chamaemorus) found in 1908, the discovery 

 of this Arctic-alpine species at Montauk opens up interesting 

 possibilities of glacial relics or bird migrations, which is also 

 true of the red spruce station at Orient, Long Island. 



Specimens of this plant will be deposited in the herbaria of 

 the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and The New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



Montauk, Long Island, 

 July 31, 1924. 



