1907] Fernald,— Rhinanthus of Quebec and New Hampshire 23 
along the margins and nerves; panicles simple, 2-6 cm. long, 
occasionally somewhat glomerate, the closely flowered short 
branches appressed, usually partly enclosed in the subtending 
leaf-sheath; pedicels scabrous, usually much shorter than the 
spikelets; spikelets ovate-lanceolate; glumes lanceolate, acute 
or acuminate-pointed, subequal, a little shorter than, as long as, 
or a little longer than the floret, scabrous on the keel excepting 
near the base; lemmas ovate or oblong, obtuse or submucronate- 
pointed, scabrous on the keel and lateral nerves above, otherwise 
smooth, no hairs at the base; palea ovate-oblong, obtuse, equalling 
or a little shorter than the lemmas. 
Type, no. 5 J. Reverchon, from Texas in the National Herbarium. 
Other specimens are from Illinois, J. Wolf and E. Hall. Hall's 
specimen is presumably from Athens in 1868 and was first referred to 
M. sylvatica by Vasey, who later regarded it as a doubtful variety of 
M. mexicana. 'The culms are branching throughout and the numer- 
ous small panicles terminating the branches and partly included in 
the subtending leaf-sheaths present the habit of M. mexicana, but the 
plant is more slender throughout especially in its panicles, the texture 
of the glumes and lemmas is much softer and the latter are perfectly 
smooth at the base there being no hairs either upon the callus or on 
the body of the lemma. The spikelets are rather those of a Sporo- 
bolus than a Muhlenbergia but the plant evidently belongs with the 
soboliferous species of the latter. 
BUREAU or PLANT INDUSTRY, 
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF ÁGRICULTURE, 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
THE ALPINE RHINANTHUS OF QUEBEC AND 
NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
Tue plants which have long passed in eastern America as Rhinan- 
thus Crista-galli L., in part (R. minor Ehrh.), occupy two strikingly 
different geographic areas. One, apparently the true R. Crista-galli 
(R. minor), abounds in sterile fields and meadows, and along road- 
