122 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
may be inferred from an item published in the PRocEEDINGS OF 
THE NATURAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION OF Staten IsLanp, volume 
1, page 62 (Meeting held February 11, 1888), as follows: 
“Mr. Wm. T. Davis read a portion of a letter from Mr. Aug. 
R. Grote: *. . . In 1856 I found Clematis ochroleuca growing on 
Kellett’s Hill, near Egbertville, on the southern slope near the top. 
My specimens went to the late Hon. Geo. W. Clinton, botanist of 
Albany.’ ”’ | 
Other local references to the species by Mr. Davis include a 
note on the discovery, on May 27, 1887, of a colony of about 100 
of the plants on a sand dune in the vicinity of Watchogue,® and 
an appeal for the preservation of the species in the Todt Hill 
region, in an article on “Local Notes on Vanishing Wild Flow- 
ers,” © | 
A note may also be found on the discovery of a station for the 
species in the vicinity of Richmond, in 1890, by Arthur Hollick.’° 
Apparently no effort has been made to establish specimens at 
other stations on Staten Island where they might be perpetuated, 
although the species is not difficult to transplant and it makes an 
interesting and unique feature in any garden. Its numbers have 
been greatly diminished in recent years in the places where it used 
to grow in abundance, and in a few years hence it will probably 
be exterminated, as it was on Long Island. However, specimens 
from Todt Hill have been planted in the New York Botanical Gar- 
den and in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden during the past few years, 
and these plants are all in a flourishing condition, so that the 
species appears to stand a fair chance of being preserved as an 
element in the flora of New York through the medium of these 
institutions, even though it may be exterminated in its native 
stations. | | 
SIDemG, Win, 1, Rao, Naum, Scr Assoc. StaTEN Is., vol. 1, p. 56, June 
11, 1887. 
9Tdem, vol. 8, p. 29-30, Feb. 8, 1902. 
10 Tdem, vol. 2, p. 50, June 12, 1890. > 
