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72 Rhodora [MAncH 
A NomRTHERN SoOLIpAGO IN THE Warre MouwTAINS.— To the 
steadily increasing number of northern plants found in the White 
Mountains may now be added Solidago rugosa, Mill, var. villosa 
(Pursh) Fernald.! This plant I noticed on 3 September, 1914, growing 
abundantly in a large clump beside the Mt. Washington Carriage 
Road below the junction of the Raymond Path (Sargent's Purchase, 
N. H.), and a specimen (A. S. Pease, no. 16305) has been placed in the 
Herbarium of the N. E. Botanical Club. Further search, for which. 
at the time I had no opportunity, may reveal the plant at other points. 
along the Carriage Road or in similar habitats elsewhere in the region.. 
— ARTHUR STANLEY Pease, Urbana, Illinois. 
A TERETOLOGICAL SPECIMEN OF PANICUM AMARULUM Hrrcnc. & 
Cuase.— Three specimens of this species collected at Miami, Florida, 
in 1904, by J. M. Westgate, have panicles bearing transformed spike- 
lets in which the glumes are multiplied to as many as 15, producing 
much the appearance of Glyceria canadensis or species of Tridens. 
These densely crowded scales are empty, but at the summit of the 
spikelets are usually one or two staminate florets in form like the 
staminate florets of the normal spikelets. None of these transformed 
spikelets bears fertile florets. The panicles bear a few apparently 
normal spikelets but examination of these shows only staminate florets. 
This multiplication of glumes is frequently found in species of the 
allied genus Ichnanthus but we have not before observed it in any 
species of Panicum.— AGNES CmasE, Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D.C. 
1 The seventh edition of Gray's Manual, 794, gives the range of this variety as- 
“from Lab. and w. Nfd. to w. Que. and n. Me." 
Vol. 17, no. 194, including pages 33 to 48 and plate 111, was issued 17 
March, 1916. 
