36 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
FURTHER NOTES ON THE PANICUMS OF ESSEX COUNTY, 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
F. Tracy HUBBARD. 
SPECIES NEWLY NOTED FROM THE COUNTY. 
DuniNG about a week's collecting around Manchester this fall I 
discovered several species of Panicum not in my former list. [Ruo- 
DORA 14:36 (1912)]. Atleast three of these seem to be unreported from 
Essex County. Additional collections were made of certain of the 
species mentioned in the former list and one species there noted must 
be excluded as further collections of similar material have led to a 
reversal of opinion. 
Panicum LiNDHEIMERI Nash. Hitchcock € Chase, Contr. Nat. 
Herb. 15:203 cite this species from Maine; New Hampshire; Ver- 
mont; Massachusetts, Framingham, Smith no. 734; and Connecticut. 
There is no specimen of this species from Massachusetts in either the 
Gray Herbarium or the Herbarium of the New England Botanical 
Club, but in the latter is a specimen from Rhode Island, Warwick 
M. L. Fernald, June 25, 1910, so that the species has been sparingly 
found in all the New England states, most commonly in Maine. In 
the locality where I collected it, it was fairly abundant. My speci- 
men is No. 482, sandy hillside, among rocks, back of Dana's Beach, 
Manchester, Oct. 1, 1912. This number was sent to Mrs. Chase of 
the Bureau of Plant Industry and was determined by her. The 
material is more pubescent than P. Lindheimeri ordinarily is and Mrs. 
Chase states that it is the form which was named P. Funstoni by 
Scribner and Merrill. 
PANICUM MERIDIONALE Ashe. Hitchcock & Chase, I. c. 210 do 
not cite this species from Massachusetts, but in the Herbarium of the 
New England Botanical Club there are specimens from Sandwich, 
F. S. Collins, No. 1153; Brewster, F. S. Collins, Nos. 1288, 1205; 
Wellfleet, F. S. Collins, No. 1238. I have also seen specimens from 
Wellesley (Herb. Wellesley College); Dedham, Purgatory Swamp, 
F. F. Forbes, June 27, 1903 (Herb. Forbes) and Wilmington, G. G. 
Kennedy (Herb. Kennedy). My specimen is No. 475a, rich open 
woods, Beverly Farms, Sept. 29, 1912. "This material was a single 
