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Nymphsea odorata Ait. 



After flowering the peduncle sometimes takes the form of a spiral 

 coil and thus shortens itself either to adapt itself to diminishing 

 depth of water or to draw the OYary beneath the surface to mature 

 its fruit. 



Valisneria spiralis does the same thing. Pruiting specimens 

 showing the coiling of the peduncles were collected in Boreas pond, 

 Adirondack mountains. 



Corydalis flavula DC, 



Green pond, one mile east of Jamesville. Prof, L, M, Underwood. 



Lychnis vespertina SiUh. 

 Storm King station. June. 



Stellaria media Smith. 



This chickweed is a very variable plant. It often lives through 

 the winter and is then ready to bear fruit early in the spring. 

 Specimens were collected in April last bearing an abundance 

 of flowers and mature fruit. The plants were procumbent, 

 the nodes short, leaves small and but slightly petioled, and 

 the whole aspect was quite unlike that of the more erect large- 

 leaved form that occurs later in the season. The fields where these 

 plants grew were in cultivation the preceding summer, but the seeds 

 apparently germinated after cultivation ceased, and the mild winter 

 enabled the plants to perfect themselves and bear fruit early in the 



spring. 



Linum Virginiaimm L. 



Selkirk. July. It is not rare to find two to four plants growing 

 from the same root, and the old stem of last year's growth standing 

 among them, thus indicating a perennial character. 



Rulbus hispidus L. var, suberecta n. var. 



Stems erect or recurved, densely beset with stift* bristles or weak 

 prickles ; leaves generally five-foliate on the young plants, trifoliate 

 on old ones, the leaflets thin, broadest in the middle, rather sharply 

 serrate, mostly acute or short acuminate, entire and wedge-shaped at 

 the base. 



Pastures and bushy places. Morehouse ville. July. 



This plant is so unlike the ordinary form of R. hispidus that I am 

 constrained to consider it as a variety. It is quite abundant in 

 the locality mentioned, growing chiefly in dry places. The young 



