1902] Fernald, — Early Records of Leontodon 39 



PanLum microcarpon, Muhl., I have not seen from the state. It is 

 mentioned in the list as " (frequent; — Driggs." 



Panicum sp/iaeroearpon, Ell. North Bloomfield, August 2, 190 1 ; 

 open field south of the railroad cut ; abundant. 



Eragrostis major, Host, — a form. New Haven, July 21, 1901 ; 

 plentiful and noticeable. 



Eragrostis reptans, Nees. Cromwell, August 19, 1901 ; pure 

 sand, shores of the Connecticut river ; plentiful. 



Eragrostis Purshii, Schrader. North Bloomfield, August 2, 1901 ; 

 open dry field south of the railroad cut. 



Glyceria e/ongata, Trin. Canton, August 14, 1901 ; mountain woods 

 about Mt. Hon*., few plants. 



Poa debit is, Torr. Pomfret, July 4, 1901 ; Wolf Den vicinity; local 

 as far as observed. Listed from but one other place in the state. 



Agrostis intermedia, Scribn. South Windsor, September 24, 1901 ; 

 dry open woodlands along the southern border of the town. 



Eestuca tenetta, Willd., Asplenium acrostichoides % Sw., and Viola 

 ovata, Nutt. do not appear in the list, but are a part of our general flora. 



Sagittaria rigida, Pursh, is abundant in wet sand along the shores 

 of the power house pond at Tariff ville. 

 East Hartford, Connecticut. 



[Carrx Muhlenbergii, var. etiervis, reported by Mr. Drifts from Stamford, 

 is a rather frequent form of the species in the southern portions of Connec- 

 tutic, Rhode Island and Massachusetts — Ed.] 



Early Records of Leontodon in America. — In a recent note 

 on the "fall dandelions" of North America (Rhodora, iii. 293) I 

 made the statement that Leontodon autumnalis was apparently first 

 recorded as an established plant hereabouts in the 4th edition of 

 Gray's Manual. Mr. T. O. Fuller has kindly called my attention to 

 the fact that the plant was recorded not only in the 1st edition of the 

 Manual (1848) but that by both Bigelow and Pursh it was reported 

 as early as 1814. By what peculiar influence I was led to overlook 

 these definite reports in standard floras and to fix upon the 4th edition 

 of the Manual as the starting point of our records I am now unable 

 to recall. There is, however, no question that the Apargia autumn- 

 alis of Bigelow and of Pursh is exactly the Leontodon autumnalis, L. 

 Bigelow in the 1st edition of Florula Bostoniensis said "This plant, 

 probably an emigrant from Europe, has over-run the vicinity of this 



