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of one of these plants shows that the compression called for by the 
description hardly exists. When sections are examined, the com- 
pression is so slight that it hardly departs from the cylindrical. In 
all other respects, color, wiry habit, branching, etc., the plants are so 
closely resembling AAnfeldtia plicata that the writer feels quite safe 
in referring them to that species as a robust form, such as is not 
infrequently met with on the coasts of New England and such as is 
common on the coasts of the Pacific United States. The color is par- 
ticularly that characteristic of slightly faded AAnfeldtia plicata. It 
may be that future workers will divide .44afe/dtía plicata into forms, 
or even into separate species. Schmitz (Flora, 1893, pp. 393, 394) 
in fact, voices what is even more than a doubt as to whether the 
plant of the region of Cape Horn and also the plant of the Ochotsk 
Sea, are either of them identical with the plant of the North Atlantic. 
But even the plant of the North Atlantic Coasts varies considerably 
in coarseness, and there seems to be little other difference to sepa- 
rate them. The internal structure is the same and in this respect 
the types of Gymnogongrus Torreyi agree perfectly with plants of 
North Atlantic AAnfeldtia plicata. 
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Calif. 
AN EXTENSION OF RANGE OF EATONIA PUBESCENS. — Eatonia 
pubescens, Scribner & Merrill, is common on some of the brackish 
meadows, which lie along the west shore of New Haven harbor, be- 
tween New Haven and Savin Rock. It is a stout grass, with the 
lower sheaths and leaves, and also the back of the ligule, softly and 
densely pubescent. The spikelets are very like those of Æ. obtusata. 
It is generally in full bloom about the middle of June. I collected it 
here in 1903, and again in 1904, and usually found it in very wet sit- 
uations, which could only be reached with comfort at low tide, 
although it has been described as a plant of dry soil. It was abun- 
dant at most of the stations. Mr. Fernald informs me that there is a 
sheet of this grass in the Gray Herbarium collected by Dr. E. H. 
Eames on “dry roadside on salt meadows, Fairfield, Conn., June 24, 
1902.” In the appendix to Britton’s Manual, Pennsylvania is give 
as the northern limit of this essentially southern species, but its occur- 
rence at New Haven and also at Fairfield, twenty miles west of New 
Haven on Long Island Sound, shows that its range extends at least 
