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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Habenaria 
  hyperborea 
  i?. 
  Br. 
  

  

  The 
  great 
  variability 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  recognized 
  in 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  

   Flora, 
  but 
  no 
  effort 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  classify 
  the 
  varieties. 
  

   In 
  the 
  marshes 
  and 
  cedar 
  swamps 
  about 
  Jordanville, 
  three 
  well 
  

   marked 
  forms 
  occur. 
  

  

  In 
  one 
  the 
  plants 
  are 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  feet 
  high, 
  with 
  a 
  stem 
  six 
  to 
  ten 
  

   lines 
  thick, 
  with 
  broad 
  leaves 
  and 
  a 
  dense 
  spike 
  of 
  spreading 
  flowers. 
  

   This 
  is 
  the 
  largest 
  and 
  stoutest 
  form. 
  

  

  In 
  another 
  the 
  plants 
  are 
  generally 
  about 
  a 
  foot 
  high, 
  with 
  a 
  rather 
  

   slender 
  stem 
  and 
  narrow 
  leaves, 
  but 
  with 
  a 
  dense 
  spike 
  of 
  spreading 
  

   flowers. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  third 
  form 
  the 
  plants 
  are 
  eight 
  to 
  twelve 
  inches 
  high, 
  the 
  

   stem 
  slender, 
  the 
  leaves 
  narrow 
  and 
  the 
  spike 
  loose 
  and 
  slender, 
  with 
  

   erect 
  or 
  appressed 
  flowers. 
  

  

  Corallorhiza 
  multifiora 
  Nutt, 
  

   A 
  variety 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  has 
  occurred 
  in 
  woods 
  at 
  Menands, 
  Albany 
  

   county, 
  in 
  which 
  nearly 
  the 
  whole 
  plant 
  has 
  a 
  pale 
  yellow 
  color, 
  the 
  

   lip 
  of 
  the 
  flower 
  being 
  white 
  and 
  unspotted. 
  This 
  is 
  such 
  a 
  wide 
  de- 
  

   parture 
  from 
  the 
  ordinary 
  form 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  labeled 
  our 
  specimens 
  

   Corallorhiza 
  muUiUora 
  Havida. 
  

  

  Cyperus 
  esculentus 
  L. 
  

  

  The 
  yellow 
  nut 
  grass 
  sometimes 
  penetrates 
  the 
  tubers 
  of 
  the 
  potato 
  

   by 
  its 
  sharp 
  pointed 
  rootstocks 
  and 
  develops 
  its 
  tubers 
  in 
  the 
  tubers 
  

   of 
  the 
  host. 
  Specimens 
  of 
  this 
  kind 
  were 
  brought 
  to 
  me 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Van 
  

   DeLoo, 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  invading 
  tubers 
  was 
  

   planted 
  and 
  it 
  developed 
  into 
  a 
  fine 
  specimen 
  of 
  Cyperus 
  esculentus. 
  

  

  Carex 
  castanea 
  Wa/il, 
  

   This 
  rare 
  and 
  interesting 
  sedge 
  still 
  lingers 
  in 
  small 
  quantity 
  under 
  

   the 
  hemlocks 
  on 
  the 
  eastern 
  shore 
  of 
  Cedar 
  lake, 
  in 
  the 
  southern 
  part 
  

   of 
  Herkimer 
  county. 
  Its 
  first 
  discovery 
  in 
  this 
  country 
  was 
  made 
  

   here 
  by 
  Professor 
  Gray 
  more 
  than 
  sixty 
  years 
  ago. 
  At 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  

   my 
  visit 
  to 
  this 
  place 
  men 
  were 
  busy 
  cutting 
  the 
  hemlock 
  trees 
  and 
  

  

  