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_ The caps were either wholly or partly yellow. This is the com- 
mon form in our State. It has the upper surface of the cap either 
wholly pale yellow or the center only tinged with red or orange, 
the margin remaining yellow. The form having the whole upper 
surface of the cap uniformly bright red or orange red is very rare 
with us. Yet this is the form commonly figured by European 
mycologists as Amanita muscaria. The form having 
the pale yellow eap was described by Gonnermann and Rabenhorst 
as a distinct species but Fries reduced it to a variety. The 
instances mentioned above are strong presumptive evidence of its 
harmless character and may be taken as another point of differ- 
ence between this plant and the poisonous fly amanita. They 
strengthen the claims of those who have regarded the plant with 
the yellow cap as a distinct species. Still these two mushrooms 
are so closely allied in size, shape and structure that it does not 
seem prydent to regard them as distinct species and the yellowish 
capped one as edible, till full trial and investigation has estab- 
lished the fact beyond question. 
Aster roscidus variifolius n. var. 5 
Lower stem leaves ovate or oblong ovate, cordate, acuminate, 
serrate, petiolate, 2-5 inches long, upper stem leaves much smaller, 
oblong, entire, sessile or with a very short, widely winged petiole, 
scarcely more than 1 inch long. 
Woods along the shore of Lake Ontario north of Mexico. Sep- 
tember. 
The whole plant is glandular. The three or four upper leaves are 
abruptly reduced in size. 
Aster undulatus L. 
A small form, 1.5-2 feet tall, with leaves ovate or subrotund, 
the lower petiolate, cordate and serrate with broad teeth, occurs 
near Minerva. It is related to A. undulatus abrupti- 
folius, but is a much smaller plant. 
Antennaria neglecta Greene 
A dwarf form having the heads densely capitate, the stems of 
the pistillate plant only 2-4 inches long and of the staminate plant 
2 inches or less, occurs at Minerva. It is in flower the first week 
