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REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Brassica rapa L, 



The turnip was found infesting some of the fields of oats in North 

 Elba in great abundance and behaving like a bad weed, rivaling the 

 pestilent charlock, or wild mustard, in this respect. It gives to the fields 

 the bright yellow color of its flowers. The inhabitants, as if anglicizing 

 the specific name of the plant, call it rape, and attribute its introduction 

 to some impure oat seed brought from western sources 



Barb area praecox {Stn.) R. Br, 



Roadside near Saugerties. May. This is an introduced species and 

 not common. 



Erysimum cheiranthoides L, 



Roadside near Gansevoort, August. A single unusually large speci- 

 men was found. It is nearly 3 feet tall and has seven branches, the 

 shortest of which is i foot long, The branches bear terminal clusters of 

 flowers, below which they are abundantly su})plied with pods, there 

 being about 625 in all. If they contain an average number of 10 seeds 

 to a pod, a low estimate, for many of them contain twice that number, 

 there are more than 6000 seeds on this plant. Several of the lower pods 

 on the stem are abruptly contracted and empty in the lower part. In 

 consequence, the upper part appears as if supported on an unusually 

 long pedicel jointed and bent at or near the middle. 



Viola sagittata Ait. 

 Thin woods near Saugerties, also near New Baltimore. 



Viola blanda Willd. 

 An unusual form of the sweet white violet was found growing among 

 wet mosses m a ravine on the western side of Mt Mclntyre. Its leaves 

 were scarcely more than half an inch in diameter, but its pedicels were 

 4-6 inches long, bearing the flowers far above the leaves. The plants 

 were in flower July 16. 



