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new station is much farther inland than the plant usually occurs. 

 Its presence here gives an additional botanical interest to the 

 Shawangunk mountains which have already furnished several very 

 rare and interesting species of plants. 



Quercus Muhlenbergii, Engelm. (Q. castanea, Muhl.) 



"Big Gully" near Union Springs. Dudley. This is the Q. 

 Prinus var. acuminata of the Manual, Q. acuminata, Mx., but 

 it is regarded by Dr. Engelmann as quite distinct from Q. Prinus. 

 It is a rare species in our State, its proper home being, according 

 to Dr. Engelmann, in the Mississippi valley. In the New York 

 Flora it is attributed to Chemung county on the authority of Dr. 

 Knieskern. There are two forms of it ; one having lanceolate 

 narrow leaves, five to six inches long and one and a half to two 

 inches broad, with acuminate apex and sharp teeth ; the other 

 having broadly ovate or obovate leaves, six or seven inches long 

 and four or five inches broad, with broader and more rounded teeth. 

 Our specimens belong to the narrow-leaved form. 



MTRICA GrALE, L. 



Locke pond, Cayuga county. Dudley. 



Sagittaria variabilis var. hastata, Engelm. 



Summit marsh, Spencer, Tioga county. Dudley. The speci- 

 men shows long linear and lanceolate phyllodia ; also stolons giv- 

 ing rise to young plants. The variations in this well-named 

 Sagittaria are exceedingly numerous. Specimens collected at 

 Coeymans have the leaves of variety latifolia, but all the flowers 

 staminate on some plants, thus passing to the dioecious inflores- 

 cence of variety obtusa. Specimens of variety gracilis from the 

 same place have, in some cases, all the leaves without lobes, in 

 others some leaves are lobed, others, lobeless. A specimen of this 

 variety from Long lake has the fruiting heads almost sessile, as 

 in 8. licteropliylla. Specimens of variety hastata and variety 

 angustifolia also sometimes occur with dioecious inflorescence. 



Naias major, All. 



Foot of Cayuga lake. A slender form with long internodes and 

 long narrow leaves. Black lake, a shallow pond four miles below 

 Cayuga lake. A short, stout, dark or purplish-colored leafy form 

 with dichotomous recurved habit and slightly curved and more 

 distinctly reticulated fruit. Dudley. 



Aplectrum hyemale, Nutt. 

 West Dryden. Dudley. 



