NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



CRASSULACEAE 

 Sedum Telephium L. 



LlVE-FOR-EVER. ORPINE 



Introduced. Occasional. Very tenacious of life. 



DROSERACEAE 

 Drosera rotundifolia L. 



Round leaved sundew 



Wet or muddy places. Scarce. By the side of the road to Epps farm' 

 a few rods south of the main road. Bogs in the south end of Lake 

 Placid. July. A favorite habitat is on decaying trunks of trees lying in 

 water. The glandular tipped hairs of the leaves shine like dewdrops in 

 the sun. 



HALORAGEAE 



Myriophyllum tenellum Bigel. 



Slender water milfoil 



Muddy shores. Very rare. Marsh pond. July. In the summer of 

 1880 the water in this pond was very low and this little plant was so 

 abundant on the muddy shore as to attract attention from a distance by 

 its peculiar yellowish brown color. 



Hippuris vulgaris L. 



Bottle brush. Jointweed. Mares tail 



Shallow water. Very rare. Chubb river in Averyville swamp. 

 August The flower of this plant i's minute and inconspicuous. It fur- 

 nishes an example of great simplicity of structure. There is a trace of a 

 calyx but no corolla and but one stamen and one pistil in a flower, and 

 one seed in a single celled ovary. 



Callitriche palustris L. 



C. verna L. 



Water fennel. Vernal water starwort 



In water and on mud. Occasional. Raybrook and old Keene road. 

 In both places it was growing on mud. 



