REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 
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Euonymus atropurpureus Jacq. 
Banks of the Genesee river at Glen Iris, Wyoming county. June. 
Fragaria Virginiana Mill. 
The wild strawberry is a variable plant and indicates in the fields 
its tendency to run into numerous varieties. Near Meadowdale a 
form was found bearing flowers scarcely more than half the usual 
size. These small flowers are followed by very small fruit. The 
breadth of the receptacle of the flower indicates in some degree the 
size of the resulting fruit. From a broad receptacle we would expect 
a large fruit, from a narrow one, a small fruit. Possibly some of the 
forms referred to this species will yet be shown to be distinct species. 
Zizia cordata DC. 
A form with the radical or basal leaves trifoliate was found grow¬ 
ing with the ordinary form in the borders of woods near New Balti¬ 
more, Greene county. In one or two instances both entire and 
trifoliate basal leaves were found on the same plant. 
Viburnum lantanoides Mx. 
The hobble bush is one of the prevailing shrubs of the Adirondack 
forests. Wherever we go in this mountainous region we find it ex¬ 
tending its long horizontal branches as if to welcome us to its forest 
home with outstretched arms, but really to impede our steps, for the 
interlocking of the branches of neighboring plants or the rooting at 
the tip of an occasional deflexed branch makes traveling difficult and 
sometimes causes a trip and a fall. 
This shrub is generally three or four feet high and bears a few hori¬ 
zontally spreading branches which are nearly as long as the parent 
stem. But plants were noticed the past summer in the southern part 
of Essex county between the Boreas and Hudson rivers that were 
ten feet high. These tall individuals generally had shorter and more 
numerous branches than their more lowly neighbors, and these were 
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ascending in direction, diverging from the stem at a smaller angle 
than usual. In searching for the cause of this excessive and peculiar 
growth it was found that these tall specimens generally grew in 
