1913] A Summer Course on the Flowering Plants 99 
atrocinctus grew, I noticed a few small clumps of a Scirpus which, while 
resembling it, was taller and more erect, with upright spikes and long 
slender spikelets. The S. atrocinctus that grew all about was ripe 
and falling to pieces, while this sedge was just passing out of blossom. 
The following day, July 13, 1912, I was collecting in a similar wet 
meadow about a half mile west of there in the town of Winchester at 
an elevation of 900 feet, where I came across a small stand of this same 
Scirpus. The nearly related S. atrocinctus was also abundant in this 
meadow with its var. brachypodus and with many variations between 
the typical form and the variety. I identified this Scirpus as S. 
Peckii and Mr. C. A. Weatherby, who kindly compared it with speci- 
mens at the Gray Herbarium, confirmed my identification. ‘The 
species is new to Connecticut. This rare sedge has been found in 
Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, since the publication of the New Gray's 
Manual, thus greatly increasing its southern range.— ARTHUR E. 
BrEwiTT, Waterbury, Connecticut. 
A SUMMER COURSE ON THE FLOWERING PLANTS is being planned in 
connection with the Summer School of Harvard University. It will 
be given from July 1 to August 12 in the new George Robert White 
Laboratories of Systematic Botany, connected with the Gray Herba- 
rium, at the Botanic Garden. The course is to be conducted by Prof. 
Fernald and will be devoted to the classification and distribution of 
the Flowering Plants, with special reference to the Flora of New 
England and the Maritime Provinces. It will consist of lectures, 
laboratory work, and excursions. Five times a week; lectures at 9, 
laboratory exercises 10-1. Excursions one afternoon and one whole 
day each week. The fee for the course is $30. For further informa- 
tion apply to Pror. M. L. FERNALD, Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, 
Mass. 
Two Recorps oF PANICUM CALLIPHYLLUM AsHE.— Mr. F. T. 
Hubbard has lately identified as this rare species my no. 4465, col- 
lected at Lakeville, Massachusetts, 25 August 1912, on a sand bank 
sloping down from dry woods. The only previous collection of the 
plant known from New England is that made by C. E. Perkins at 
Medford, Mass., 3 August 1881, recorded by Hitchcock and Chase in 
