112 TWENTY- SEVENTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 



Nabalus Boottii DC. 



I am not aware that this species has been found anywhere 

 on the Adirondack Mts., except on the summit of Whiteface, 

 and I greatly fear it will soon be exhausted or trodden out 

 from this station which is now so frequently visited by tour- 

 ists and others. Its near ally, N. nanus, occurs everywhere 

 on the higher summits and slopes of these mountains. 



DlPLOPAPPUS UMBELLATUS T. & G. 



Among the Adirondacks this plant is greatly reduced in 

 size and frequently bears no more than six to ten heads of 

 flowers. But notwithstanding the elevation and coolness of 

 the locality it is in flower there by the middle of August. 



Rhododendron maximum L. 



Near Chapel Pond, Essex county. 0. S. Phelps. It is 

 also very abundant in Forestburgh, Sullivan county, where 

 it forms dense and almost impenetrable thickets. 



Campanula rotundifolia L. 



This plant manifests a tendency to sport. Small flower- 

 less specimens collected near Port Jervis have the rounded 

 leaves on the upper part of the stem, the linear leav< j > ing 

 below them. 



Rhinanthus Crista-galli L. 



Summit of Haystack Mt. It is interesting to note that in 

 this locality as well as in the neighboring one on Mt. Marcy 

 this plant occupies the southern inclination of the exposed 

 summit, where it is in a measure protected from the bleak 

 northwesterly winds. It was not found on Skylight, whose 

 broad open summit gave promise of a fine botanical held. 

 Perhaps the very broad and nearly flat summit of this 

 mountain does not afford a sufficiently protected southern 

 inclination for it. 



Polygonum Careyi Olney. 



Long Pond, "Wading Ri^er. Young. 



Arceuthobium pusillum Pk. 



Forestburgh. It is more abundant there than in the 

 Sandlake locality. In one instance it was growing in great 

 profusion on an unusually thrifty-looking tree, just as if the 

 luxuriance of the parasite was in proportion to that of its 

 host. Both staminate and pistillate plants were occasion- 

 ally seen on the same tree, but I have not yet found them 

 intermingled on the same branch. The pistillate plants 

 seem to be the most numerous. 



