170 Rhodora [Auou»t 



JUNCUS ToRREYI AND ELLISIA NyCTELEA IN MASSACHUSETTS. — 



On the 25 August, 1901, along a railway ditch at Chelsea I came 

 across a colony of a strange looking /uncus which proved to be/. 

 Torreyi, Coville. It is described in Gray's Manual under/, iiodosus, 

 L., var. megocepha&uS) Torr. 



On 1 [une, 1902, while walking along the recently opened Revere 

 Beach Parkway at Everett, I noticed in the newly seeded grassy 

 borders numerous plants of a species I had never before seen here- 

 abouts. The plant, described a few days after to Dr. Robinson, 

 was at once recognized by him as Ellisia Nyctelea, L., which he 

 said was a pernicious weed in some of the western states. It was 

 evidently introduced here in impure grass seed and is not likely to 

 maintain itself in this locality at least. So far as I can learn these 

 two species have not before been reported from New England. — 

 Wm. P. Rich. 



Vol. t, '">■ t3> containing pages rfg to 134 was issued /Sjuly. t<fo*. 



