REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST FOR 1 92 1 4T 



Parsonsia petiolata (L.) Rusby 



Mendon. Warren Matthews, July 29, 192 1. 



A plant which prefers moist meadows and which is undoubtedly 

 spreading northward in this State, as Clinton (19th Regents Report, 

 204. 1866), reports it only from New York Island, and later (38th 

 Rep't N. Y. State Museum 107. 1885) from Catskill. Paine {Cat. 

 80. 1865) reports it from northern New York, on the authority 

 of Stevenson & Kneiskern, a report apparently borrowed from 

 Torrey's flora (1843). This might be Washington county (where 

 collected by Burnham, 46th Rep't ,N. Y. State Mus. 43. 1893), or 

 an outlying station now unknown. Very common at Saugerties, 

 Ulster county, House 8720, October 8, 1921. 



Arctium minus Schk. 



A form with pure white flowers has been collected near Rochester 

 by Florence Beckwith (Herb. Rochester Acad. Sci. & Proc, 5 : 98. 

 1917), and which may be designated as forma leucocephalum forma 

 nova. 



Sambucus canadensis L. 



The form of this species collected near Rochester by John Dunbar, 

 with dark yellow fruit, and preserved in the herbarium of the 

 Rochester Acad, of Sciences, may be designated as forma atro- 

 flavula forma) nova. (Proc. Roch. Acad. Sci., 5: 18. 1910). 

 Likewise the form of Sambucus racemosaL. with yellow 

 fruit, also collected near Rochester by Mr Dunbar may be desig- 

 nated as forma xanthocarpa forma nova. 



Oneida County 

 Carex leucorum Willd. 

 Common in sandy fields north of New London. House 6099, 

 June 4, 1919. Commonly regarded as a variety of C . pennsyl- 

 v a n i c u m Lam. 



Carex tonsa (Fernald) Bicknell 

 Sandy fields north of ,New London. House 6100, June 4, 1919. 



Carex rugosperma Mackenzie 

 Dry fields near North Bay. House 6324, June 18, 1919. 



Carex laevivaginata (Kukenth.) Mackenzie 



Collected near Verona several years ago by Dr C. H. Peck (state 

 herbarium, asC. stipata var. crassicuta, in part) . Also 

 collected by Doctor Peck at Cedarville, Herkimer county (as var. 

 subsecuta). Castle swamp, Madison county. House 5898, 

 June 27, 191 5. 



