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Lepidium campestre, L. 



Near Ithaca. Dudley. Also near Coeymans and rapidly spread- 

 ing over the State. 



Lespedeza Stuvei, Nutt. 

 Ithaca. Dudley. 



KlJBUS NEGLECTUS, Ph. 



West shore of Cayuga lake. Dudley, 



POTENTILLA RECTA, Wllld. 



Near Moravia. Dudley. 



Agrimonia parviflora, Ail. 



Freeville and Danby, Tompkins county. Dudley. 



Crataegus coccinea var. macracaktha. 



College campus, Ithaca and Union Springs. The thorns on the 

 specimens are four to four and a half inches long. 



Prukus pumila, L. 



South Hill, Ithaca. Dudley. Some of the fruit is swollen into 

 a pale, soft body, ovate or obovate in form and pointed at the 

 apex. This is the result of an attack by a fungus, Exoascus 

 Pruni, Fckl. This fungus also attacks the fruit of the wild plum, 

 Prunus Americana, Marshall. I have also seen the fruit of our 

 wild black cherry, Prunus serotina, swollen in a similar manner 

 but the cause in this case was from an attack of an insect, the 

 larvae of which were found in the affected fruit. 



Sedum reflexum, L. 



Thoroughly established by the roadside near Newark, Wayne 

 county. E. L. Hankenson. 



Epilobium molle, Torr. 



Sphagnous marsh in " Cheney's woods," near Glens Falls. Mrs. 

 L. A. Millington. The specimens sent are young plants and they 

 show at the base a dense cluster of very small thick subterranean 

 scale-like leaves, which might easily be mistaken for a cluster of 

 small tubers. They are arranged in pairs on opposite sides of the 

 stem, as are the leaves, and they appear whitish, thick and starchy 

 like cotyledonous leaves. Their office is apparently similar to that 

 of cotyledonous leaves, that is, to store up nutriment upon which 

 the plant can draw at some subsequent period of its existence. 

 They do not appear upon the base of old plants or those which 

 have flowered and fruited. They are also found at the base of 

 young plants of Epilobium paluslre. 



