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the course of Sandy Brook up to Woodrow road, and from thence may 
be found in nearly every field or piece of cleared ground until we reach 
the village of Rossville. Indian implements of various kinds, with 
fragments of pottery have been picked up at many points and are 
likely to be met with in any part of the region. The distance of some 
of these accumulations from the shore, their elevation above the water, 
and the fact that in many places they are spread thinly and evenly on 
the surface has led me to think that the more distant ones from the 
salt water may have been carried there in recent times by the farmers 
for purposes of fertilization, as is frequently done. Whether this be 
so or not, implements may be found wherever the shells occur, prov- 
ing their origin indisputably. 
Amongst a number of relics found at the time mentioned was an 
unusually fine specimen of a rubbing or polishing stone—an imple- 
ment of which few have turned up on Staten Island, and in regard to 
which I believe, the attention of the Association has never been called. 
Amongst the hundreds of implements which our members have col- 
lected during the past ten or twelve years from all parts of the island, 
I find but seven which can be classed in this category—all, with the 
exception of this one, from Tottenville. 
Mr. William T. Davis presented nine plants, new or rare to the flora 
of the Island, with the following memoranda : 
Rubus odoratus L. Side of Todt Hill road near the highest point. 
Spreading from introduced plants. Aethusa cynapium L. Abundant 
in a field corner Crescent and Jersey streets, New Brighton. Pre- 
viously reported only from Clove Lake swamp. Oxycoccus macrocarpus 
Pers. Near Sprague avenue, Tottenville, and accompanied by the 
“Cotton grass” (Eriophorum) as in the swamp near Richmond village. 
Vaccinium pennsylvanicum Lam. Watchogue and Arlington. Stachys 
palustris L. var. cordata. Abundant in field near Eltingville station. 
Pinus mitis Michx. Abundant at Linoleumville. Habenaria bleph- 
ariglottis Hook. Sparingly at Watchogue along Merrill's road. Calo- 
pogon pulchellus R. Br. Merrill’s road near trap ridge. Collected by 
C. Leng. Smilacina stellata Desf. Borders of salt meadow at 
‘Great Kills. 
Mr. Walter C. Kerr exhibited a large fragment from the broken 
trunk of a horse chestnut tree, showing profuse budding, and read the 
followi : 
dees ena sur i:no the adventitious budding of a horse chest- 
nut, Æsculus hippocastanum L., on Tompkinsville Hill may be worthy 
5 eastern brow of the hill there stands, 
of passing notice. On the bleak 
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