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 and generally oommon in^Oayuga flora than any other non- 

 arboraceous angiosperm irhateverf excepting only, perhaps, 

 a very few of the grasses; it seems to the writer, in 

 fact, yery improhahle that any exception need he made if 

 all types of habitats, thruout the region, are considered. 

 It grows in upland fields, marshes, ravines, and wood- 

 land, on cliffs, and, in fact, practically everywhere th4t 

 any herbaceous plant can grow, and becomes a time -wasting 

 nuisance to the collector looking for rarer crucifers* 

 i^ie localities where specimens were actually taken, will 

 be given, largely, below. 

 Diagnosis and variation: 



Perhaps B. vema (Mill.) Asch. (= Bar bar ea prae - 

 oox Sm.) does not occur here, tho PI. of Mon. Co. gives 

 it as"rare''. PI. Buf. Vic: not listed. the Loc. Herb, 

 specimens from Enfield are noted as varying toward it, 

 however, having as many as 7 pairs of lateral leaflets 

 (the fruit -characters cannot be determined). 



If B. stricta occurs here, the writer has not been 

 able to separate it. Apprest -fruited forms certainly 

 occur - and, as Dr. H. B. Brown remarkt to the writer 

 in 1911, Intergrade with divaricate forms; this, as will 

 be pointed out below, is a character apparently largely 

 dependent on the light-conditions, and gives no certain 



