﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  STATE 
  BOTANIST, 
  1 
  897 
  283 
  

  

  This 
  small 
  spruce 
  has 
  hitherto 
  been 
  deemed 
  a 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  com- 
  

   mon 
  black 
  spruce, 
  but 
  in 
  my 
  opinion 
  it 
  is 
  worthy 
  of 
  specific 
  dis- 
  

   tinction. 
  It 
  is 
  smaller 
  than 
  that 
  species 
  and 
  has 
  smaller 
  leaves, 
  which 
  

   are 
  commonly 
  glaucous 
  and 
  less 
  curved, 
  smaller 
  cones 
  and 
  much 
  

   smaller 
  seeds. 
  The 
  seeds 
  are 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  seeds 
  of 
  the 
  

   black 
  spruce 
  and 
  the 
  seedwing 
  is 
  also 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   seedwing 
  of 
  that 
  tree. 
  The 
  twigs 
  are 
  pubescent 
  and 
  the 
  sterigmata 
  

   are 
  glabrous 
  or 
  slightly 
  pubescent. 
  The 
  cones 
  are 
  oval 
  and 
  their 
  

   scales 
  are 
  eroded 
  on 
  the 
  edge. 
  While 
  immature 
  they 
  are 
  wholly 
  

   purple 
  or 
  green 
  with 
  a 
  purple 
  margin. 
  The 
  tree 
  is 
  scarcely 
  more 
  

   than 
  20 
  or 
  30 
  ft 
  high, 
  and 
  bears 
  cones 
  when 
  only 
  4 
  or 
  5 
  ft 
  high. 
  

   The 
  cones 
  are 
  8 
  to 
  12 
  lines 
  long, 
  the 
  leaves 
  2 
  to 
  5 
  lines 
  long, 
  the 
  

   seed 
  about 
  i 
  line 
  and 
  its 
  wing 
  about 
  2 
  lines 
  long. 
  

  

  It 
  inhabits 
  swamps 
  and 
  open 
  bogs^ 
  bears 
  its 
  flowers 
  in 
  June 
  and 
  

   matures 
  its 
  fruit 
  in 
  September 
  or 
  October. 
  

  

  A 
  small, 
  half-prostrate, 
  shrub-like 
  spruce 
  occurs 
  on 
  the 
  exposed 
  

   summits 
  of 
  the 
  high 
  peaks 
  of 
  the 
  Adirondack 
  mountains. 
  Its 
  leaves 
  

   -are 
  short 
  and 
  glaucous 
  and 
  on 
  this 
  account 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  considered 
  a 
  

   variety 
  of 
  this 
  species. 
  For 
  convenience 
  of 
  reference 
  I 
  have 
  named 
  

   it 
  variety 
  semiprosfrata. 
  It 
  does 
  not 
  bear 
  fruit 
  and 
  is 
  probably 
  a 
  

   mere 
  form 
  due 
  to 
  the 
  peculiar 
  and 
  unfavorable 
  character 
  of 
  its 
  place 
  

   of 
  growth. 
  

  

  Raphidostegium 
  Jamesii 
  L. 
  & 
  J. 
  

  

  Trunks 
  of 
  trees. 
  Adirondack 
  mountains. 
  August. 
  Mrs 
  E. 
  G» 
  

   Britton, 
  

  

  Lepiota 
  acerina 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  conyex, 
  dry, 
  floccose-squamulose, 
  pale 
  tawny 
  or 
  subalu- 
  

   taceous, 
  brownish 
  and 
  subumbonate 
  in 
  the 
  center; 
  lamellae 
  thin, 
  

   close, 
  free, 
  pallid, 
  pruinose 
  when 
  dry; 
  stem 
  equal, 
  stuffed 
  or 
  hollow, 
  

   iloccose-squamulose 
  below 
  the 
  obsolete 
  ring, 
  colored 
  like 
  the 
  pileus; 
  

   spores 
  oblong 
  or 
  narrowly 
  elliptic, 
  very 
  blunt 
  or 
  subtruncate 
  at 
  

   one 
  end, 
  .0003 
  to 
  .00045 
  in. 
  long, 
  .00016 
  to 
  .0002 
  broad. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  8 
  to 
  12 
  lines 
  broad; 
  stem 
  i 
  to 
  1.5 
  in. 
  long, 
  about 
  2 
  lines 
  

   thick. 
  

  

  Prostrate 
  mossy 
  trunks 
  of 
  sugar 
  maple, 
  Acer 
  Saccharum. 
  North 
  

   Elba, 
  Essex 
  county. 
  August. 
  

  

  