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glabrous above; but such ‘vernal’ culms shooting up in the fall often 
depart from the usual characters of a species.” 
This rare species, the type of which was collected by M. L. Fernald 
in Maine has also been collected from Maine by Parlin and by Fernald 
at several locations, and from Vermont, Hartland, Ruggles no. 49 (the 
last on the authority of Mrs. Chase), as well as from Massachusetts, 
as reported above. The Ashburnham specimens of Harris have a 
noticeably different habital aspect from the Maine specimens of 
Fernald and from my No. 205 and the lower branches of the panicle 
do not have the same marked droop which is so noticeable in 
Fernald’s Maine specimens and only slightly less marked in my No. 
205. However these Harris specimens bear the verification of 
Hitchcock and Chase as shown by their revision labels and con- 
sequently must be accepted as correctly named. Seemingly new to 
Essex County and eastern Massachusetts. 
Panicum TsUGETORUM Nash. Hitchcock and Chase, l. c., cite 
from Massachusetts, Framingham, Smith, no. 740. Represented 
in the Gray Herbarium from Massachusetts, Woburn, M. L. Fernald & 
E. F. Williams; Framingham, E. C. Smith (no number). In the 
Herbarium of the New England Botanical Club, Massachusetts, is 
represented from Boston, 1881, C. E. Perkins; Housatonic, Berk- 
shire County, 1906, Ralph Hoffmann. My specimens are No. 169, 
rich open woods, Manchester, Oct. 7, 1911; No. 180, sterile soil, 
Beverly Farms, Oct. 9, 1911; and No. 187, bushy roadside, Conomo 
Road, Essex, Oct. 9, 1911. j 
Specimens of these numbers were sent to Mrs. Chase and deter- 
mined by her. From her notes, good specific characters would seem 
to be the long first glume, the short ligule, the short crisp pubescence 
on culm and sheaths and the thin white margin of the blades. 
This species is represented in the Gray Herbarium by specimens 
from Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts as above cited, Connecticut, 
New York, southward and westward,— hence it should prove more 
widely distributed in Massachusetts. 
PANICUM COLUMBIANUM Scribn. Hitchcock and Chase, l. c., cite 
from Massachusetts, Wellesley, Smith, no. 738; Framingham, Smith, 
nos. 742, 744. Not represented from New England in the Gray 
Herbarium. In the Herbarium of the New England Botanical Club 
there is a Massachusetts specimen from Stoneham, W. P. Rich, 
no. 343 in part. My specimens are No. 118, ballast of R.R., West 
