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incident was stated, that the largest tree (about 18 inches in 

 diameter) was planted by a jailor, or rather the seed was 

 planted which he brought with him from a voyage to the ma- 

 hogany countries." 



8. Rosa setigera, Michx. In company with Dr. Booth, I found some 



bushes of this near Rochester, in 1864, an our way to Ironde- 

 quoit Bay/ and the Doctor informed me that there were other 

 stations of it near Rochester. In the same year I found a 

 single bush of it on the edge of a wooded swamp, remote from 

 any garden, near Buffalo. In 1865, I found it abundant, on the 

 banks of the Oak Orchard creek, at Albion. I am inclined, 

 however, to the belief that, in all these stations, it was bird- 

 sown, and that it is not indigenous to the State. 



9. Lythrum hyssopifolia, L. Staten Island, 1865. W. H. Leggett. 



10. Epilobium molle, Torre y. Buffalo, 1865. O. W. C. 



11. Opuntia vulgaris, Mill My venerable friend, Dr. James Hadlet, 



now of Buffalo, wrote me, on the 23d of May 1866, as follows: 

 '"In answer to your inquiries I would state that I never found, 

 and do not know that anyone else ever found, Opuntia vulgaris 

 at Fairfield. The statement of Dr. Torrey, in his Flora of the 

 State, ' The most northern locality in this State is Fairfield, 

 where it was found by Prof. Hadley', is an error. I collected 

 this plant at New-Haven, Connecticut; and it may be that a 

 specimen, collected there, slipped in among some plants from 

 Fairfield which I furnished to Doctor Torrey. I can imagine 

 no other way in which the error could have occurred." My 

 good friend, James L. Bennett, of Providence, R. I., in March 

 1866, wrote me that, in 1856 or 1857, he found the Opuntiavul- 

 garis "in the neighborhood of Syracuse, in. a southwestern di- 

 rection from the city," and that " it appeared a native, and not 

 an accidental interloper." 



12. Valeriana sylvatica, Richards. Bergen swamp, Genesee county, 



1865. Dr. Booth, Fish, Paine. 



13. Solidago ohioensis, Riddell. Bergen swamp, 1865. Booth, Fish. 



14 Veronica ariagallis, L. Caledonia, "Livingston county; and in the 

 Tonawanda swamp, on the Oak Orchard creek, near Alabama, 

 1865. G. W. C. Near Bergen, 1865: L. Holzer, Fish, Booth. 



15. Melissa officinalis, L. Roadsides in Hamburgh, Erie county, 1865. 



Naturalized, D. F. Day. 



16. Blephilia hirsuta, Benth. " It grows along the Chemung river, west 



of the railroad bridge, outside of Corning, near the Painted 

 Post station." Rev. L. Holzer, 1865. 



17. Gentiana saponaria, var. linearis, Gray. Irondequoit Bay, 1863. 



Geo. W. Fish. 



18. Frasera carolinensis, Walt. Under the date of " Great6eld, 2 mo. 



2, 1828," David Thomas wrote me; " Frasera carolinensis is 

 called a biennial, but I am satisfied that it is often triennial." 

 It is abundant in rocky groves east of and near Buffalo. My 

 friend, D. F. Day, and myself have observed it closely in and 



