OO NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



species Plantarum rests upon a brief description taken from the 

 Hortus Cliffortianus, which is quite certainly our northern plant, 

 and to which the name P. balsamifera must apply unless we 

 wish to invite a confusion of nomenclature which will render 

 ridiculous all proposed codes. 



Professor Sargent should read and reflect upon the common sense 

 statement by Fernald in regard to the name Prunus Vir- 

 ginian a L. (Rhodora, 18: 140-141. 1916). 



In its typical form the true red oak has very large acorns with 

 very shallow cups, but not infrequently intergrading with the variety 

 known as the gray oak, which has smaller acorns and deeper cups 

 and which does not seem to have, in this State at least, any distinct 

 geographical range separate from that of Q . rubra. It has been 

 regarded by some authorities as a distinct species, but is better placed 

 as a variety : 



var. borealis (Michx. f.) comb. nov. 



Q. a m b i g u a Michx. f . Hist. Arb. Am., 2 : 120. pi. 24. 1812. Not Humb. 

 & Bonpl. 



Q. borealis Michx. f. N. Am. Sylv., 1: 98. pi. 26. 1817 



Campe stricta (Andr.) Wight, var. taurica (DC.) comb. nov. 



Barbarea taurica DC, Syst, 2 : 207. 1821 



B. arcuata Reichenb. Flora, 5 : 296. 1822 



B. vulgaris var. arcuata Fries, Novit. Fl. Suec. 205. 1828 



A variety, or perhaps little more than a form of the typical species, 



with arcuate-ascending pods. Occasional throughout the State as a 



naturalized or adventive plant. 



Carex strictior Dewey 



A form of this species growing at Hidden lake in southern 

 Herkimer county and elsewhere, with very short and stout 

 pistillate spikes was described by Doctor Peck as Carex 

 stricta var. curtissima (Howe, in 48th Rep't N. Y. 

 State Mus. 150. 1895). The true C. stricta as distinguished 

 by Mackenzie appears to be limited in this State to the coastal 

 plain, where a similar form was also collected by Peck, but the 

 Hidden lake specimen is the type, and may be designated as 

 Carex strictior, forma curtissima (Peck) comb. nov. 



Carex strictior also passes into another extreme in which the 

 pistillate spikes are but 2.5 to 3 mm thick and 25 to 40 mm 

 long, and less compact, often staminate at the apex. This is 

 Carex angustata Boott, C. xerocarpa Wright, 

 or C. stricta var. angustata Bailey, but is doubtless 

 better recorded as a form : Carex strictior, forma angustata 

 (Boott) comb. nov. 



