Report of the Botanist. 53 



Viola Muhlenbergii Tot?. 



A dwarf form of this species was found in South Corinth, flowering freely 

 the latter part of August. 



Sedum telephioides Mx. 



This plant which is rare in our State, is reported by Hon. D. F. Day, 

 to be growing at Chittenango Falls, high up on the face of the cliffs. 



Aster macrophyllus L. 



A form occurs near Albany with purplish stems, broadly ovate cauline 

 leaves and flowers with six to ten rays only. 



Aster Nov^-Anglije L. var. roseus T. & G. 

 Buffalo. Clinton. 



Aster ericoides L. var. vjllosus T. & G. 

 Buffalo. Clinton. 



HlERACIUM AURANTIACUM L. 



This plant is already fully established in several localities in our State, and 

 is rapidly spreading. I have seen it in abundance in Rensselaer, Schoharie 

 and Montgomery Counties, and it is reported by Mr. 8. W- Cowles as fully 

 established in Cortland County. It spreads both by seed and by runners. It 

 thrives in hard gravelly soils, by roadsides, in pastures and in meadows, and 

 bids fair to rival the daisy as a noxious weed. It forms a dense carpet of hairy 

 leaves closely pressed to the surface of the ground, and sends up its flowering 

 stems a foot or more high. These bear at their summit a cluster of beautiful 

 orange-colored flowers, which give a very showy appearance to the fields they 

 occupy. The growth of the plant is very rapid. One field that had been 

 plowed in the spring was red with the blossoms of this weed the middle of 

 June Meadows containing it, after having been mowed, quickly send up a 

 second crop of flowering stems. It is pronounced by farmers to be worthless 

 as fodder, and it is doubtful if it can be kept down except by thorough culti- 

 vation of the soil. 



Shepherdia Canadensis Nutt. 



Rocky places near Central Bridge and Sprakers. 



Chenopodium album L. 



This species at present is made to include a variety of forms, some of which 

 do not well harmonize either in general aspect or in details of character. A 

 common form about Albany has wide-spreading branches, broad leaves with 

 numerous teeth, usually five to ten on each side, large dense clusters of fruit, 

 usually intermingled with leaves but sometimes becoming leafless, and seeds 

 very large, fully equal in diameter to the seeds of C. hybridum. This form 

 differs so widely, in its whole aspect and in all the characters mentioned, from 

 the ordinary narrow-leaved form, C. viride, that unless they are clearly con- 

 nected by intermediate forms it would seem better that they should be kept 

 distinct. 



