REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST FOR 1 92 1 Ifc 5 1 



Calluna vulgaris (L.) Salisb. 



Three miles south of Grafton Center. Dr Rudolf Ruedemann, 

 September 5, 192 1. 



These plants were growing around the bases of dead or partially 

 dead spruce trees (Picea picea) which had been imported sev- 

 eral years ago from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The clumps of 

 heather were not vigorous, but while persisting are not spreading and 

 apparently the climate here is not suitable for this species. 



The European heather so well established in eastern Massachusetts 

 and on Martha's Vineyard island, has, unlike many other European 

 introductions, failed to spread far beyond its original place of intro- 

 duction. This Rensselaer county record recalls attempts to establish 

 the species in the Adirondacks and on the sand plains between Rome 

 and Oneida lake (Paine, Cat. PI. Oneida Co. 101. 1865), made many 

 years ago, but which were apparently not successful ; at least the 

 plants have not since been seen in these localities, although it might 

 be expected to persist on the sand plains of Rome. 



Rubus odoratus L., forma albiflorus forma nova 

 Petals white. Pyrites, St Lawrence county, Mrs Orra Parker 

 Phelps. 



Limodorum tuberosum L., forma latifolium (St John) comb. nov. 



Calopogon pulchellus forma latifolius St John, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., 36: 69. 1921 



Moreau, Saratoga county, E. C. Howe (state herbarium). 



The leaves in this broad-leaved extreme are usually shorter than 

 in the typical form and markedly broader, in the Moreau specimen 

 18 mm broad and 12 cm long, thus forming little more than an 

 approach to the form as described by Doctor St John. 



Hypericum majus (Gray) Britton 

 Along railroad north of Valley Falls. House 8405, July 19, 1921. 

 In the same moist ditch also grows in abundance H. m u t i 1 u m , 

 H. canadense and H. punctatum. The amount of 

 variation in the size and shape of the leaves of H . majus, sug- 

 gests the possibility that it might be a hybrid between H . cana- 

 dense and H. punctatum. 



St Lawrence County 

 Viola rostrata Pursh, forma Phelpsiae, forma nova 

 Petals all white. St Lawrence county, Mrs Orra Parker Phelps. 

 Occasional! v seen in other localities. 



