REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I913 2 1 ] 



Although new to the State herbarium, Hitchcock and Chase cite 

 specimens in the national herbarium from the Thousand Islands, 

 Ausable Chasm, Appalachin and several places on Long Island. 



Panicum werneri Scribn. 



Gloversville, June 29, 1912. No. 259. A rare species, ranging 

 from Maine to Minnesota, Ohio and Texas. Although new to the 

 State herbarium, it has been collected previously in New York, 

 according to Hitchcock and Chase, at Tripoli, Washington county, 

 by S. H. Burnham, in 1897, near New York City, by E. P. Bick- 

 nell, in 1895, and near Ithaca, by Ashe and Rowlee, in 1892. 



Pyrola uliginosa Torrey 



(P. asarifolia incarnata (Fisch.) Fernald) 



Cold Springs, Gloversville, 1913. No. 409. The purple-flowered 

 shin-leaf is a subarctic species ranging from Newfoundland to 

 Alaska, in cold sphagnum bogs. In New York it is confined to the 

 northern and central counties. Besides the Fulton county station 

 here recorded it occurs at several localities in Oneida, Madison, 

 Oswego and Onondaga counties. 



Phragmitis communis L. 

 Gloversville, September 19 12. No. 281. 



Polygala viridescens Linn. 

 Peck's pond, September 18, 19 12. No. 286. 



Persicaria careyi (Olney) Greene 

 Jackson's summit, August 22, 1912. No. 292. 



Sagittaria graminea Michx. 

 Sacandaga river, August 6, 191 3. No. 335. 



Sagittaria rigida Pursh 

 Vlei, August 6, 1913. No. 102. 



Scirpus smithii A. Gray 



Northville, August 10, 1913. The specimens are not quite mature, 

 but recognizable by the terete stems, flattened achenes and erect 

 involucral leaves. Rare and local in distribution from Maine to 



