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have baie since the publication of the State Flora, and others are still 
in abeyance. Dentaria hetero hylla, and Dip iplopappus amygdalinus, 
for instance, aac probably be referred to other species. Juniperus Sa- 
bina, as the name of the northern prostrate Juniper, sichonelesti indicat- 
ooker, i referred to by Torrey, has waited for Dr. J, W. Ro 
bins (who should be credited with it) to point out “the determining 
characteristic of the species.” The real — specially interesting recent 
additions + the State Flora are seal as 
Nymphea tuberosa, Paine, n. sp., the ictdee-ieaned and mR 
Ske Water Lily of the Great Lakes and their t tributaries, with the 
ive arillus. It is still to be seen whether the characters will hold o 
— ila. Nutt., which Mr. Paine found on the aes of 
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Ribes ru Symi, h Dr. Vasey is said to have found “ on hills north 
ce Salmon Falls aaa that may be. But the general habitat : 
‘swampy woods, low shaded flats of streams, hill-sides, and ravines; fre- 
quent,” is surely quite wron 
_, Solidago Houghtonii, Gray,—before known only from a single, un- 
identified station in notthern Michigan, discovered last summer in an in- 
teresting swamp in West Borgen Genesee Cou 
yrola secunda, va > a curious little form, which we have 
from Labrador, Lake Sieuividk and the ee Mountains, and which 
Chamisso indicated long ago on Mr. Paine discovered 
pripedium conduct a western species, agin in the Bergen swamp, 
with fd eatices of the same farther south an 
Cypripedium arietinum : found abundantly, with the Pyrola, d&c. 
heen ae and especially, Carex vaginata, in the West oe 
ex ntha, Tu — should have been known 
belong to the true ee adusta. 
¢ of the above, and other plait detected by Mr. Paine in or near 
Oneida County,—the district of our own earliest botanizing,—fill us wi wis 
admiration of his activity and eet ks aevacaio 
ike ; al 
find it mentioned as if indigenous, and with saan which lead 
Suppose that some other has been mistaken for this well-marked ar 
