Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb

Report of the State Botanist. 41
Magnolia glauca L.
This small but beautiful tree has long been credited to Long
Island, but I have been able to find it in only a single locality
In this place the trees are ten or twelve feet high and very
slender, the trunk scarcely exceeding an inch or an inch and a
half in diameter. The branches are short, which give the trees
a rather strict appearance. The flowers are creamy-white and
the fruit globular rather than "oblong." In the N. Y. State
Flora its blossoming time is said to be May and June, but the
past summer the trees were yet in blossom on the fifteenth of
July. It is greatly to be hoped that the owners of the land
where these trees grow will not allow them to be destroyed
There are not many of them, and it is possible they may be the
only wild representatives of the species in our State
Arabis perfoliata Lam.
This rare plant still exists on the rocky banks of the Black
river below Watertown, Avhere it was found more than fifty
years ago.
Buda rubra Bmmmt.
Hempstead Plains. July. A small form three or four inches
high.
Hypericum Ascyron L.
This plant which is not common in our State has been found in
Washington county. Burnham.
Erodium Cicutarium Z' Her.
Fields near Schenectady. July. Wibhe.
Flcerkea proserpinacoides Wlllcl.
Near Syracuse. Mrs. L. L. Goodrioh.
Vitis aestivalis Mx. var. bicolor Le Conte.
Whitehall. July.
Polygala polygama Walt.
West side of Mount Defiance on thin soil covering rocks.
June. A form having pale-pinkish flowers was collected near
Riverhead ; also near Amagansett. July.
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