180 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
In a letter to Mr. Walter Deane, dated April 17, 1909, Mr. Oakes 
Ames says of this species: “H. dilatata is extremely rare in Massachu- 
setts, I have only seen specimens from Middlesex Co. (Hb. Gray) and 
from Franklin Co. (Sunderland, in Hb. Ames)."— Locar FLORA 
COMMITTEE. 
FīmBRISTYLIS FRANK Steud., var. brachyactis, n. var., spiculis 
glomerulatis.— Spikelets glomerulate; otherwise as in the species.— 
In hard clay soil by the Stillwater River, Orono, Maine, August 18, 
1908 (M. L. Fernald). Closely simulating the southern F. Vahlii 
(Lam.) Link, but with the 3-cleft style and the trigonous achene 
exactly of F. Frankii which, in its ordinary form abounds in the neigh- 
borhood where the variety occurs.— M. L. FERNALD, Gray Herbarium. 
Vol. 11, no. 128, including pages 149 to 164, was issued 9 August, 1909. 
