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erect and in the best developed forms they are terminated by a 

 reflexed flap or scale. On each side at the base is another smaller 

 budlike projection which probably represents the lateral flower 

 that ordinarily stands, one on each side of the central flower at each 

 node. It looks like an effort on the part of the plant to increase 

 the number of its seeds at the expense of its, to us, useless awns. 

 The specimens were collected late in the season — in October — 

 but whether this lateness of growth had anything to do with the 

 peculiar development is uncertain. Other plants of normal form 

 were found growing with these. 



Hydnum schiedermayeri Heuf. 

 Dead trunk of a standing appletree. Keenc, Essex co. Sep- 

 tember. 



Ilex verticillata cyclophylla Robins. 

 Boggy margin of Otter lake, Oneida co. July. J. V. Haberer. 

 Margin of Brant lake, Warren co. C. H. Peck. 



Iris pseudacorus L. 

 This showy yellow flowered iris is an introduced species which 

 is sometimes found growing spontaneously. Fine specimens were 

 collected by Mrs T. J. Leach at the mouth of Salmon river, in 

 Oswego county. 



Lactarius brevis Pk. 



The typical form of this species has a short stem. Specimens 

 collected near Wading River the past season have stems from 2-2.5 

 inches long. 



Lathyrus maritimus (L.) Bigel. 

 This seashore plant was reported by Dr Torrey many years ago 

 as occurring at Oneida lake. Dr Haberer finds it still growing 

 about the head of the lake. 



Lychnis chalcedonica L. 



The scarlet lychnis is often cultivated for its showy flowers and 

 it sometimes escapes from cultivation to roadsides or waste places. 

 But Dr Haberer has found it growing spontaneously on densely 

 wooded slopes near White lake, Oneida co. 



Lysimachia vulgaris L. 

 Along West Canada creek at East Herkimer. July. J. V. 

 Haberer. This is a beautiful plant and is sometimes cultivated for 

 ornament. The calyx lobes are red margined. 



