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since 1861. In that year we found only radical leaves and a 

 few old fruit stalks. In 1862 it flowered. In 1863 and 1864 it 

 did not; but in 1865 it did flower. 



19. Acerates viridiflora, Ell. Staten Island, 1865. W. II. Leggett. 



20. Myriea cerifera, L. Caledonia, and the Bergen swamp, common. 



1865. 



21. Naias major.. Allioni. Irondequoit Bay, 1865. Prof. E. G. Pickett. 



22. Zygadenus glaucus, Nutt. Caledonia, 1865: G. W. C. Bergen 



swamp, 1865: Fish, Booth, Paine, Hqlzer. 



23. Tqfieldia glvtinom, Willd. Bergen swamp, 1865: Booth, Paine, 



Fish, Holzeb. 



24. Eleocharis rostellata, Torrey. Bergen swamp, 1865: Booth, Fish, 



Paine, Holzer. 



25. Scirpus ccespitosus, L. Bergen swamp, 1865: Fish, Booth, Holzer, 



G. W. C. 



26. Scleria verticillata, Muhl. Bergen swamp, 1865: Clinton, Booth, 



Fish, Pickett. 



27. Carex gynocrates, Wormskiold ; C. dioica of the Flora. Bergen 



swamp, 1865: Booth, Paine. 



28. Carex siccata, Dewey. Bergen swamp, 1865. G. W. C. 



29. Carex grayii, Carey. Rochester, Booth, Alden, 1865; Holzer 



and G. W. C. 



30. Phalaris canariensis, L. Buffalo, on rubbish heaps, 1865. D.F.Day 



31. Scolopendrium officinarum, Swartz. On the third day of March, 



1865, Lewis Foote, Esq., of Detroit, Michigan, discovered a 

 new station of this fern, which, in a letter to me, he describes 

 as being " about 200 feet from the track of the Syracuse & 

 Binghamton R. R., about five miles from Syracuse and half a 

 mile from Janesville, in a deep rocky ravine, through which a 

 small stream empties into the Butternut creek." In noticing 

 this interesting discovery, in the American Journal, Professor 

 Gray supposes that this maybe Pursh's original station: But 

 there is reason to believe that Pursh's was neither this nor the 

 Chittenango Falls station. Pursh states that he found it "in 

 shady woods, among loose rocks, in the western parts of New- 

 York, near Onondaga, on' the plantations of J. Geddis, Esq." 

 The Hon. George Geddes, the son of Pursh's " J. Geddis, 

 Esq.," under the date of " Fairmount, March 31, 1866," very 

 obligingly wrote me as follows, in answer to my inquiries: " I 

 regret to have to say that my knowledge of botany is too limited 

 to enable me to identify the fern commonly called the Harts- 

 tongue. But it so happens that I remember many years since, 

 when I was small boy, that my father set me looking for it in a 

 gorge in the limestone precipice just south of my house, which 

 is 4J miles west of the center of Syracuse. The gorge is within 

 one mile of my house, and is quite like. the locality on the But- 

 ternut creek and the locality on the Chittenango. I am vefy 



