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than long notched, and sometimes oval a little longer than broad obtuse, 

 finely crenulate, quite thin, of an extremely light green color above, pale 

 beneath ; in marked contrast with the dark green, coriaceous, elliptical 

 leaves of the common P. secunda, which merge into the petiole and are 

 mucronate-acute at end. Scape slender ; with two or three minute pointed 

 bracts. Racemes strictly erect, three- to eight-flowered, very loose ; flowers 

 hanging usually on one side, narrowly cylindrical, pale green ; anthers 

 carried beyond the petals by long deep purple shining filaments ; styles 

 far exserted. 



On damp moss under the shade of tamaracks and arbor vitae, in all the 

 large marshes among the hilltops between the vallies of the Mohawk and 

 Susquehanna rivers, from above Summit lake, Otsego county, to the swamp 

 near Cedar lake, south Herkimer county. 



This remarkable diminutive variety, growing in moss of deep bogs, with 

 thinner orbicular and more serrulate leaves of only half or three-fourths of 

 an inch in diameter, much like those of Moneses uniflora, the slender scape 

 only four- to nine-flowered, is very distinct in appearance, and must be the 

 same with the " Varietas pumila biuncialis, foliis ad basim confertis orbicu- 

 latis in petioluro brevern decurrentibus serratis", of Chamisso, in Linn^ea, 

 collected at Eschscholtz bay in Russian America, and which Ledebour in 

 Flora Rossica commends to further observation as to whether it may claim 

 to be a distinct species. The leaves in the New-York specimens, however, are 

 nearly all perfectly rounded at the base. Among the specimens in my herba- 

 rium, I find this form only from Labrador, Dr. Storer ; North shore of Lake 

 Superior, C. G. Loring jr.; aud from the Northern Rocky mountains coll. 

 Bourgeau : Gray. 



To Utricularia gibba, p. 104 : 



This plant differs remarkably from other species, in mode of inflorescence. 

 Others continue to flower by prolonging their racemes; while the scapes of 

 this species are only one- to three-flowered. Tet it remains longer in flower 

 than any other, by sending up an indefinite series of scapes from a disk-like 

 centre among the roots; so that on one side of the flowering stem may be 

 found a decaying old one in fruit, and on the other a new one springing up, 

 from June to September. 



To POLEMONIUM CJBRULEUM, p. 115 : 



This plant, so rare eastward, and remarkably separated from its home in the 

 northwest and among the Rocky mountains, has again been found by Mr. 

 Gilbert in Delaware county, among the hill-tops of Meredith, on the borders 

 of several swamps. 



All these stations prove the plant to be usual about the springs and marshes 

 on the high cold hills between the headwaters of Oleout and Schoharie creeks, 

 and southeastward between the Susquehanna and Delaware rivers. The 

 lowest pass over the latter is 2150 feet above tidewater, and the heights of 

 these rolling ranges of hills cannot be less than 2500 feet. 



Thus this section, with the exception of mountains, is indicated to be the 

 most elevated in the State, by the subalpine Polemonium, as well as actual 

 measurements. The level of the northern wilderness is only from 1500 to 

 1800 feet above the sea : Raquette lake, the source of Raquette river flowing 

 northward to the St. Lawrence, is elevated 1745 feet; the chain of Eight 

 lakes, headwaters of Moose river, average about 1700 feet; the two lakes 

 that give rise to Black river, emptying into Lake Ontario, stand 1820 feet; 

 and Jock's lake, fountain of West-Canada creek and the highest lake in the 

 woods, is 2188 feet. In the southwestern part of the State, the sources of 

 Alleghany river are from 1290 (Chautauqua lake), to 2000 feet above the 

 level of the ocean. 



To Gentiana quinqueplora, p. 116, the stations : 



Along thicket-covered sidehills above the cliffs of Bignose on the Mohawk, 

 Montgomery county. Banks of the outlet of Owasco lake, Cayuga county. 

 Common on the sides of ridges ending on the shore of Lake Ontario, from 

 Sodus bay, Wayne county, to the steep banks of Irondequoit bay, and the 

 mouth of Genesee river, Monroe county. 



