Scientific name: 



AraMs canadensis L. Sp. PI. 665. 1753. 

 Common name; 



Sickle-pod. 

 Distriliution and haMtat. 



A native species , ranging southward from Ontario 

 and N« E. to Ga. and Tex.; a plant of woods » cliff s, and 

 ravines . 



Pi. of Mon. Co.: "river banks and ravines; not 



common**. PI. Bnf. Vic: listed. G* F.: "in thickets 



widely distrlhatedf but growing singly"; fall Or., Six 



Mile Cr., Enfield ravine* South Hill and lake-shore 



ravine Sf Taughannook ravine* Loc. Herb.: Watkins, N. T.; 



Fall Or. 



• «»f "tKe species 

 $he writer has one specimem from dense shade on 



the east lake slope* collected by H« P. Brown, and has also 



found it in two localities* as follows: on sand-bank 



near Van Natta pumping station* and along upper state 



road to north from Ithaca* 1)IM(#' ea'St of Renwick* in and 



A" 



near woodland recently largely cleared (two specimens 

 here ) . 

 Diagnosis : 



As to stem* leaves* and flowers* at the first 

 glance* a plant in bloom strikingly simulates a golden- 



