REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 



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Cucurbitaria Comptonise K cO K 



Dead stems of sweet fern, Comptonia asplenifolia. Coopers- 

 town Junction. June. 



(D.) 



REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS. 

 Hesperis matronalis L. 

 This introduced plant is abundant along the Susquehanna 

 river near Binghamton. IF. JV. Clute. 



Rosa blanda Ait. 

 The fruit of this species is described as globose. On the hills 

 near Elizabethtown, specimens were found in which the fruit 

 was pointed at the base and subpyriform. These were some- 

 times intermingled with fruit of the normal form, even on the 

 same plant. The stems of some of the plants were quite prickly 

 toward the base. The species is manifestly quite variable, and 

 in this case the variation is toward the western Rosa Sayi. 



Eupatorium perfoliatum. 

 A form of this plant occurs near Shokan, in which the flower 

 heads are purplish. 



Aster cordifolius L. 



The white-rayed form occurs occasionally about Whitehall, 

 also near Westport. 



Aster laevis L. 



The prevailing form of this beautiful aster, about Whitehall, 

 has all the leaves, except the two or three lower ones, very 

 narrow and tapering from the base to the apex. They are from 

 three to six lines broad and three to six inches long. 



Aster paniculatus Lam. 

 A form grows about Whitehall in which the stems and 

 branches are slender and weak or half reclining, and the flower 

 heads are more scattered than usual. 



Aster longifolius Lam. 

 The plant reported under this name in the Thirty-fourth 

 Rpeort proves to be another species, but what I now take to be 



