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come. At Brewster, in dry sandy ground, I found a Cyperus that we 
seldom see near Boston, but which is apparently common here, C. 
Grayü. 
In addition to Spartina cynosuroides just mentioned, two other 
species are to be recorded, with extension of range. Paspalum psam- 
mophilum was found in a sandy field in Eastham; the Manual gives 
its range as “so. N. Y. to Del." but it cannot now be called new to 
New England, as it has recently been found on Nantucket. The 
present Eastham station is, however, the first on the mainland of New 
England. The other species is not a native, but comes from Australia 
or New Zealand, regions that have contributed very little to our 
introduced flora. Chenopodium carinatum R. Br. was found at three 
stations in Truro and two in Eastham, September 9 and 10. It prob- 
ably did not come directly from New Zealand, but from California, 
where it has become established in recent years. It is not likely 
that many readers of this note will find a description of this species in 
any work they have at hand, and it may be well to give its principal 
characters. In general, the species may be said to resemble C. Botrys 
L., being glandular-pubescent and aromatic and having small erect 
seeds. It is prostrate and freely branched; the leaves are 1-2 (rarely 
3) em. long, oblong-lanceolate and sinuate-pinnatifid; the axillary in- 
florescences are short or subglobose glomerules instead of loose panicles 
as in C. Botrys; and the tiny sepals are prominently thickened on the 
back. The genus Chenopodium is looked upon rather askance by 
botanists who are not specially Chenopodiologists (I hope I may be 
pardoned the word, not knowing whether it is here used for the first 
time); but the species in question is rather attractive in appearance, 
and not at all like the rank and weedy Chenopodiums that abound in 
waste, and too often in cultivated places. I think I have seen it 
the past year near Boston, but my Eastham plant was then still an 
undetermined species to me, and by the time I had learned its iden- 
tity it was too late to look for it this season. 
All my Cape Cod plants of this year’s collecting, including some 
from Yarmouth and some from Mattapoisett, the latter not strictly 
belonging to the Cape, but growing under similar conditions, have been 
deposited in the herbarium of the New England Botanical Club, after 
being identified by Prof. Fernald, to whom my hearty thanks are due. 
MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS. 
1 Bicknell, Plants of Nantucket, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, Vol. XXXV, p. 182 (1908). 
