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rosebay, Rhododendron Lapponicum, the Lapland diapensia, Diap- 

 ensia Lapponica, the hairy fly honeysuckle, Lonicera ccerulea. and 

 the dwarf birch, Betula glandulosa. The hairy fly honeysuckle 

 and the small cranberry had not before been observed by me on 

 the open stimmit of the mountain and should be added to the list 

 of plants already published as belonging^ to that elevated station. 

 July is given in the Manual and also in the State Flora as the time 

 of flowering of the alpine or Lapland rosebay, but here it was 

 flowering finely on the tenth day of June. Several new and 

 interesting species of fungi rewarded my search in that bleak 

 locality. Near the base of the mountain, the few fruited June 

 berry, Amelanchier Canadensis, var. oligocarpa, enlivened the dark 

 evergreen forest with its few pure white flowers. These are much 

 scattered on the branches, there being only one, two or three in a 

 place. The petals are broadly oval or almost orbicular, and the 

 branches are wide-spreading, straggling and irregular. These 

 features are so unlike the corresponding ones in other varieties of 

 the species, that for the instant they almost compel us to believe 

 that the plant is a distinct species rather than a mere variety. Yet, 

 in less elevated and more open places connecting forms appear. 

 Along Marcy brook, the rare mountain bush cranberry or few 

 flowered viburnum, Viburnum paucifiorum, was observed, but it 

 was not yet in flower. At Ausable ponds the large leaved avens, 

 Geum macrophyllum, was discovered. This is a notable addition 

 to our flora. It is an inhabitant of the White mountain region of 

 New Hampshire and of the Lake Superior region, whence it 

 extends westward to the Sierra Nevada mountg-ins, and northward 

 to Sitka. This New York station is intermediate between the 

 eastern one and the nearest western one. An interesting form of 

 the northern Clintonia was also discovered at this time. In it, one 

 or two lateral imibels project from the scape at short distances 

 below the terminal imibel of flowers. I find no mention of this 

 form in our botanies. It is apparently due to a very thrifty and 

 vigorous condition of the plant. The number of flowers in an 

 umbel often much exceeds the number ascribed in the descriptions 

 of the botanies. 



From time to time reports have reached me that a red-flowered 

 form of the white water-lily, Nymphaea odorata, existed in some 

 of the waters of the Adirondack region. As I had never been 



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