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Stems slender, terete, 1-3 dm. high, about 1 mm. in diameter: basal 
sheaths yellowish-straw-color, shining: inflorescence compact, about 
1 cm. in diameter: bract 6-11 cm. long: sepals 4.5-5 mm. long, 
subaristate, castaneus, a little longer than the similar but white- 
margined petals: anthers twice or thrice as long as the filaments: 
capsule ovoid, long-mucronate, 3-celled, black or dark-chestnut, 
scarcely equaling the perianth.— QuEBEC: sand dunes, Bradore, 
Saguenay County, August 4, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 2992.— 
In its 3-celled capsule closely related to var. montanus Engelm. of the 
Rocky Mountain region, but differing in its darker perianth and 
capsule and lighter-colored basal sheaths, var. montanus having the 
more elongate capsule paler than the perianth and the basal sheaths 
brown or reddish.— M. L. FERNALD and K. M. WIEGAND. 
SOME PANICUMS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. 
F. Tracy HUBBARD. 
Durine this autumn’s collecting of Gramineae and Cyperaceae in 
and about Manchester, Massachusetts, several interesting species of 
the genus Panicum were found. Among these there are several, 
at present, rather rare species; one in particular, P. lucidum Ashe,/ 
which has not been reported from the state. Several others are range- 
extensions and many of them do not seem to have been reported from 
Essex County. 
The following species are the more noteworthy. 
Panicum LUCIDUM Ashe. Hitchcock and Chase, North American 
Species of Panicum, do not cite this species from New England, though 
Mrs. Chase informs me that since the revision of Panicum she has 
seen specimens from Pomfret, Connecticut, July 4, 1901, A. W. 
Driggs no. 4 and two collections from Stonington, Connecticut, June 
23, 1901, C. H. Bissell no. 5576; L. Andrews, July 13, 1902; the 
last doubtfully to be referred to this species. There is no specimen 
of this species from New England in the Gray Herbarium, and it is 
not represented in the Herbarium of the New England Botanical 
Club. My specimens are: No. 129a, rich wooded roadside, near 
