PLANTS OF ONEIDA COUNTY AND VICINITY. 103 



•Nudiflora, L. Leafless-flowering Azalea. 



Swamps and their borders ; woods and dry hillsides. Rotterdam hills, Sche- 

 nectady county. Otsego county, Miss S. Cooper. Frankfort and Graefenberg 

 swamps. Whitesboro, J. S. Gardner. Common in southern Oneida county 

 and southward, Gray. Around the South-Trenton sphagnum swale. Abun- 

 dant in the low plains of Rome. Rocky banks of the Black river below Wa- 

 tertown. Abundant. May. 



RHODODENDRON, L. Mountain Laurel. 



maximum, L. Greatest Rhododendron. 



Swamps, sides of streams. Mohawk valley, Schenectady, Pearson : west of 

 Oriskany, Vasey. Oriskany valley, a mile or two southeast of Clark's mills. 

 Unadilla valley, four miles below Bridgewater, Gray. Italy hill. Yates coun- 

 ty, Sartwell. Rare. July. 



LEDUM, L. Labrador Tea, 



» latifolium, Alton. Broad-leaved Ledum. 



Swamps on the hills. Cedar swamp adjoining Mud lake; around Wetmore's 

 sphagnum pond, Frankfort hill,. Herkimer county. Abundant in the Paris 

 hill swamp. Wooded swamps beyond Rome. Common in the north woods, 

 at the edges of ponds, lakes, and far up their banks into the forests. 



Scarce. May. 



PYROLA, L. Pyrolas. 



"ROTUNdifolia, L. Bound-leaved Pyrola. 



Rich woods. Common. June, July. 



var. asarifolta, Torr. fy Gr. Asarum-leaved Pyrola. 



Sandy hills. Near Utica. Yates county, Sartwell. Infrequent. 



tjliginosa, Torr. Sr Gr. Swamp Pyrola. 



Cold swamps. Very abundant in the marshes near Summit lake at the top 

 of the hill south of the Mohawk, source of Otsquago creek and the Susque- 

 hanna river; where it often covers the surface in patches. Abundant also at 

 Mud lake, south Herkimer county, in shade and wet moss. Sparingly in the 

 Litchfield marshes. Formerly it flourished in the Oriskany swamp, where it 

 was discovered. Leaves orbiculate,- on long petioles; flowers many, loose in 

 the raceme, deep purple, the most beautiful of the genus. Rare. June. 



elliptica, Nutt. Elliptical-leaved Pyrola. 



Woods. Common. June. 



chlorantha, Swartz. Grreen-flowered Pyrola. 



Sandy woods. Schenectady county pine woods, and along the Rolle-boom of 

 the Rotterdam hills. East side of Otsego lake, B.D.Gilbert. Plains of Rome, 

 Knieskern. Penn-Yan, Sartwell in herb. Ham. Coll. Rare. June. 



* secunda, L. Onesided-flowering Pyrola. 



Dry woods and hillsides, in deep shade. Common. 



In the high cold cedar swamps of Summit lake; Mud lake, State swamp 

 of south Herkimer county, a small form grows in wet moss under evergreens, 

 with small round leaves, half an inch in diameter and less, nearly entire, very 

 light-colored; flowers few, slender. Rare. July. 



MONESES, Salisbury. One-flowered Pyrola. 



^XJNIFLORA, Gray. Single-flowered Moneses. 



Deep woods. Otsego county, Miss S. Cooper : J. S. Douglass, Torr.Fl.N.Y. 

 Woods at Herkimer, Gray. Eaton, Madison county, Bradley. Penn-Yan, 

 Yates county, Sartwellinherb. Ham. Coll. Rare. June. 



