REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1899 



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divided into narrowly lanceolate or linear lobes, the lobes themselves 

 sometimes having large teeth projecting from the margin. This is 

 so unlike the typical form that I have designated it variety d i s s e c - 

 t i f o 1 i u s. It has been found at Minnewaska and Sandlake. 



Taraxacum taraxacum (L.) Karst. 



A singular monstrosity of the flower of the dandelion was obtained 

 by Dr E. A. Bartlett and contributed by him to the herbarium. The 

 scape is about 6 lines in diameter and includes within itself another 

 scape of smaller diameter, and this in turn includes a third still 

 smaller. The flower at the top is apparently a combination of sev- 

 eral small heads united laterally and forming a circle, whose center 

 is occupied by green, involucral bracts of ordinary size. The exte- 

 rior of the circle is surrounded by the usual green involucral bracts. 

 Two somewhat similar examples of the same species were found in 

 Schoharie and communicated by Prof. J. M. Clarke. In these, sev- 

 eral scapes are apparently united and form a single large one, which 

 is surmounted by five or six crowded but distinct heads of flowers. 



Mertensia virginica (L.) DC. 

 Abundant on the river flats near Apalachin. May. F. E. Fenno. 



Gentiana crinita FroeL 



A form growing in meadows about New Russia has pinkish col- 

 ored flowers. Mrs L. A. Millington. 



Bartonia virginica (L.) B. S. P. 



This rare species grows sparingly in wet places on the large marsh 

 near Kasoag. 



Utricularia clandestina Nutt. 



A rare species in our state. Found in flower in July in shallow 

 water holes of Kasoag marsh. 



Utricularia cornuta Mx. 



Plentiful on Kasoag marsh, growing in soft, muddy places. The 

 plants are thrifty and so numerous that when in flower they give to 

 the places they occupy the appearance of a meadow overrun by- 

 buttercups. 



