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Aster Schreberi Nees. 
Bethlehem, Albany county. July. 
Aster glomeratus (Nees.) Bernh. 
Albany county and Rathboneville, Steuben county. This and 
the preceding aster have been taken to be forms of the large leaved 
aster, A. macrophyllus , but it is more satisfactory to separate these 
white rayed asters from the blue rayed forms, since they afford 
obvious characters by which such a separation may easily be made. 
Betula pumila L. 
Abundant in the large wooded swamp near Lake Bonaparte. In 
fruit in July. This is closely related to B. glandulosa and its young 
shoots or branches are sometimes slightly glandular, nevertheless 
its larger leaves more conspicuously reticulated, its thicker fertile 
aments with the middle lobe of their scales larger than the others 
and the more obovate outline of the seeds afford sufficient marks for 
distinguishing it. B. glandulosa occurs on the summit of Mt Marcy. 
Salix balsamifera (Hook.) Barratt 
Near the southeastern shore of Mirror lake and the south end of 
Lake Placid. May and June. The range attributed to this species 
in Illustrated flora is Labrador to Manitoba, south to Maine, Ontario 
and Minnesota. The station here recorded is probably as far south 
as the balsam willow extends. 
Juncus secundus Bv. 
Amagansett, Suffolk county and Blue Mountain lake, Hamilton 
county. Reported under the name Juncus tenuis secundus Engelm. 
Juncus Torreyi Goville 
Charlotte, Monroe county. July. Rev. L. Holzer. This is Juncus 
nodosus megacephalus Torr. in New York state flora. 
Sparganium androcladum (Engelm ) Morong 
Wet places, and margins of lakes and streams. Sand Lake. For¬ 
merly considered a variety of Sparganium simplex. 
