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LOCAL FLORA NOTES— IX 



Species 



Spiraea tomentosa L. 



S. salicifolia L, 



■S. alba Du Roi. 



S. corymhosa Raf. 



Aruncus allegheniensis Rydb. 



Porteranthus trifoliatus (L.) 



Britton. 

 Potentilla pumila Poir. 

 P. simplex Michx. 



By Norman Taylor 



Specimens wanted from 



ROSACEAE 



Anywhere on the coastal plain. 

 Anywhere in the range.* 

 Anywhere in the range. 

 Known in New Jersey? 

 Mountains of Pennsylvania. 

 Pennsylvania and central New 



Jersey. 

 Anywhere above i,ooo ft. 

 The region northwest of the 



"fall-line." 

 Anywhere in the range. 

 Mountains of Pennsylvania. 

 New Jersey. 

 Below I, coo ft. elevation. 



Comarum palustre L. 

 Fragaria canadensis Michx. 

 F. americana (Porter) Britton. 

 Sibbaldiopsis tridentata (So- 



land.) Rydb. 

 Dasiphora fruticosa (L.) Rydb. 



Drymocallis agrimonioides 



(Pursh) Rydb. 

 Sanguis orba canadensis L. 

 Rubi 



Dalibarda repens L. 



* The local flora range as prescribed by the Club's Preliminary Catalogue of 1888 

 is as follows: All of the state of Connecticut; Long Island; in New York the counties 

 bordering the Hudson River up to and including Columbia and Greene, also Sullivan 

 and Delaware counties; all of New Jersey; and Pike, Wayne, Monroe, Lackawanna, 

 Luzerne, Northampton, Lehigh, Carbon, Bucks, Berks, Schuylkill, Montgomery, 

 Philadelphia, 'Delaware and Chester counties in Pennsylvania. 



t In the genus Rubus material is also needed from throughout the range to aid 

 in determining, not only the perplexed question of hybridity, but also to ascertain 

 if possible endemisms in this difficult group, are not rather common. 



The Catskills or northern New 



Jersey. 

 Northern New Jersey. 



North of the "fall-line." 



The Catskills and northern 



Pennsylvania.! 

 Below 1,000 ft. elevation. 



