174 Rhodora [AUGUST 
SUCCISA PRATENSIS IN MASSACHUSETTS.— A small colony of Suc- 
cisa pratensis Moench is established at Riverside, Haverhill, Massa- 
chusetts, on the bank of the Merrimack River. It was my good for- 
tune to find this plant on August 22, 1911. Its only American station. 
according to Gray’s Manual, is about Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, 
In order to verify my own identification I sent a specimen to Mr. 
C. A. Weatherby at the Gray Herbarium, who sent back word that 
it was really Succisa pratensis and that it had not been reported before 
from the American continent. It seems probable that the seeds were 
carried down the river during the spring floods from waste in some of 
the mill-yards of Manchester, Lowell or Lawrence and deposited at 
Riverside. If anyone cares to look for this plant he can locate it by 
going along the shore of the river from Groveland bridge toward 
Rocks Village on the Haverhill side of the river. The colony is about 
one fourth of a mile below the bridge and about 100 feet from high- 
water mark. The plant seems well established although the colony 
is small, covering perhaps 50 square yards.—J. RICHARD LUNT, 
Milton, Massachusetts. 
NEw STATIONS FOR PASPALUM PSAMMOPHILUM.— In July, 1906, 
Mr. W. P. Rich, and I collected at Halifax, Massachusetts, a Paspalum 
very different from P. Muhlenbergii, the common species of eastern 
Massachusetts. It had bright bluish-green foliage, the leaves and 
sheaths pubescent and ciliate; the spikelets also pubescent and about 
2 mm. in diameter, rather larger than in the common species. The 
plants were growing vigorously in the dry sand of the railroad em- 
bankment. 
Again, September 4, 1911, Mr. Rich and I found an abundance of 
the same plant beside the highway near West Barnstable railroad 
station. Also during the same month I collected specimens in Dux- 
bury! and Plymouth. Duplicates of the Barnstable plants were 
sent to the National Herbarium, and identified by Prof. A. S. Hitch- 
cock as P. psammophilum Nash. Mr. F. S. Collins found this grass 
in a sandy field at Eastham in 1910 (Ruopora XIII, 22, 1911), and 
it has also been found on Nantucket (Bicknell), and at Sprague, 
Franklin and Old Saybrook, Connecticut, according to the recent 
Connecticut Catalogue. The range "s. N. Y. to Del." given in the 
1 This is the grass reported as P. setaceum in Ruopora XIV, 20, 1912. 
