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NOTES UPON LOCAL FLORAS 



BY HOMER D. HOUSE 



I FULTON COUNTY 



Orontium aquaticum Linn. 



Collected near Broadalbin in June 1884, by J. D. Greenslete. 

 The specimen is preserved in the State her*barium and Messrs A. 

 Olsson and C. P. Alexander, who have collected extensively in this 

 section within the past few years, have failed to rediscover this spe- 

 cies. The Fulton county record of this species is interesting be- 

 cause the species is credited in this State usually only to the southern 

 counties, the specimens in the State herbarium being from southern 

 Chenango county, Sullivan, Orange, Richmond and Suffolk counties. 



Trillium cernuum Linn. 



Rich, moist soil in thickets and thin woods, near Northampton. 

 H. D. House, May 2^, 1914. No. 5424. 



Viola lanceolata Linn. 



Moist meadows, near Northampton. H. D. House, May 2y, 1914. 

 No. 5422. 



Viola primulaefolia Linn. 



Moist meadows, near Northampton, growing with Viola 

 lanceolata. H. D. House, May 27, 1914. No. 5421. 



Viola septentrionalis Greene 



Open wood and roadsides, near Northampton. H. D. Llouse, 

 May 27, 1914. No. 3412. 



Viola fimbriatula x septentrionalis Brainerd 

 Roadsides near Northampton. H. D. House, May 27, 1914. No. 



5415- 



2 HERKIMER COUNTY 



Lysimachia vulgaris Linn. 



Common and thoroughly naturalized along the banks of West 



Canada creek from Herkimer up to Poland. Collected at Newport, 



H. D. House, July 23, 1914. No. 5688. The golden or yellow 



loosestrife seems to have been early introduced in this region as an 



