REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1K 37 
Warren co. It is limited in quantity in the North Elba locality 
and it is hoped that any one finding it will be careful not to exhaust 
the locality. 
Seligeria pusilla B. & S. 
Limestone rocks. Chilson lake, Essex co. Mrs Nee ve rtton: 
This is the second New York locality for this very rare little moss. 
Senecio robbinsii Oakes 
The Robbins’ ragwort has become very abundant in some of the 
low wet meadows in North Elba and constitutes a large percentage 
of the hay cut from them. It is uniformly spread over the meadows 
and when in flower gives to them a more subdued yellow hue than 
the common buttercup gives to drier meadows earlier in the season. 
Serapias helleborine L. 
This rare and somewhat local plant occurs in many places in deep 
woods in Monroe county. The suggestion that it may have been 
introduced for medicinal purposes does not seem to be well 
sustained, since inquiry by a resident of the locality among some 
of the oldest inhabitants there failed to elicit any evidence to sub- 
stantiate such a supposition. A fine, unusually heavy, fruited form 
of the species was found growing in dense woods along the banks 
of the Genesee river below Rochester by M. S. Baxter. 
Trillium grandiflorum (Mx.) Salisb. 
A“ double flowered ” form of this beautiful trillium has appeared 
several years near Howes Cave and is apparently permanently estab- 
lished. It has three whorls of petals beside the calyx lobes, but no 
stamens or pistils. It is needless to say that it bears no fruit, as 
all the essential organs of the flower are transformed into petals. 
It was discovered there in May by F. W. Kelley of Albany who 
-has kindly contributed a specimen to the herbarium. 
