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pubescence of the calyx also appressed and silvery, while the short 
pubescence of the stem is subappressed. We have been unable to 
find any description of the extreme of L. capita'a with narrow acumi- 
nate leaflets and dull spreading pubescence and here propose it as 
LESPEDEZA CAPITATA Michx., var. stenophylla, n. var., caulibus 
superne pilosis vel glabratis; foliolis lineari-oblongis vel anguste 
lanceolatis acuminatis, superne glabris subtus strigosis, pilis opacis; 
calycibus pilosis, pilis patentis opacis.— Type: open dry ground, 
Peoria, ILLINOIS, September, 1904, F. E. McDonald in Gray Herb. 
Connecticut: sand bank near Trading Cove Bridge, Norwich, 
September 15, 1904, C. B. Graves; sandy ground along Connecticut 
River, Glastonbury, September 17, 1911, C. H. Bissell— C. H. 
BissELL and M. L. FERNALD. 
FESTUCA OVINA L., VAR. DURIUSCULA (L) KOCH IN 
SHELBURNE, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
WALTER DEANE. 
In July, 1909, I visited my friends, Mr. and Mrs. G. N. McMillan 
on their estate in the Androscoggin valley, Shelburne, in northern 
New Hampshire, some 700 or 800 feet above sea level. During my 
visit I examined the grasses that form the turf of the large field ad- 
joining the house. The location is on high land above the river and the 
grass is cut for hay. Besides the ordinary species, such as Phleum 
pratense L., Agrostis alba L., var. vulgaris (With.) Thurb., Danthonia 
spicata (L.) Beauv., Dactylis glomerata L., Agropyron repens (L.) 
Beauv. and the like, there were three Festucas. Two of these were 
Festuca rubra L. and Festuca ovina L., the solitary or few culms 
of the former distinguishing it from the tufted culms of the latter. 
The third Festuca, however, was the most interesting of all, for it 
proved to be the European Festuca ovina L., var. duriuscula L. (Koch), 
credited in Gray's Manual, 7th edition, only as sparingly introduced 
in Wisconsin and Iowa. It occurred in great abundance over the 
field in dense tufted mats, covering areas varying from one to ten or 
more feet across, and the dull reddish color of the spikes on their 
gracefully nodding culms, especially in a strong breeze, made a pic- 
