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clumps or clusters of several individuals or else were closely crowded 7 
by other shrubs or small trees. In either case the tendency would 
be to stimulate an upright growth in the effort of the plant to get into 
more and better light, and to retard or hinder the horizontal growth 
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of the branches. The result is seen when trees grow close to each 
other in groves or forests. They grow taller and have more slender 
elongated trunks than when they grow singly or widely scattered in 
open fields. A fertile soil and a constant supply of the necessary 
moisture are doubtless contributing conditions. This plant evidently 
delights in the shade of trees and therefore in a constantly though 
perhaps a moderately moist soil, for it quickly disappears when the 
trees are cut away and it is exposed to the full rays of the sun. 
Symphoricarpos vulgaris Mx. 
The Indian currant or coral berry is not common in our State. 
There is a station for it near Newtonville, the only one known to me 
in Albany county. Possibly the plants have been introduced there 
from some western locality. 
Aster sagittifolius Willd. 
The arrow-leaved aster is credited in the New York Flora to Yates 
county. It is now quite plentiful in the northern part of the Hudson 
river valley. It is found about Mechanicville and extends north¬ 
ward to Bemus Heights. It has also been collected by Mr. Burnham 
near Sandy Hill, Washington county, and probably occurs in inter¬ 
mediate localities. 
Solidago puberula Nutt. 
“Sandy soil, Maine to Virginia and southward, mostly near the 
coast,’’ is given in the Manual as the habitat and range of this species. 
In our State it frequently occurs in gravelly soil and in rocky places 
in the mountains remote from the seacoast. It has been found on 
the Shawangunk mountains in Ulster county, among the Catskill 
mountains and in the Adirondack mountains. It has been sent from 
rocky places in St. Lawrence county by Mrs. Anthony and from 
rocky hills near Fort Ann, Washington county, by Mr. Burnham. 
In these plants the hoary puberulence of the typical form is scarcely 
noticeable and the achenes have a few scattered hairs on the upper- 
part, otherwise I see no distinct variation from the typical form. 
