1917] Fernald,—New or critical Plants from eastern N. America 153 
Savastana Nash Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. xxv. 104, t. 328 (1898), 
subsequently transferred to Hierochloa as H. Nashii (Bicknell) Kacz- 
marek, Am. Midl. Nat. iii. 198 (1914);! but the Eames material is 
clearly an extreme development of H. odorata, var. fragrans rather 
than the beautifully distinct H. Nash. The latter species has very 
elongate firm and enduring cauline leaves and flowers in July and 
August. H. odorata, on the other hand, flowers in the eastern states 
in May and June and by July the short lanceolate soft cauline leaves 
as well as the culms are quite shriveled and brown. 
CYPERUS FILICINUS Vahl, var. microdontus (Torr.),n. comb. C. 
microdontus Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ii. 255 (1836). 
C. filicinus Vahl (1806) must displace C. Nuttallii Eddy (1820). 
But the writer is unable to find any absolute character by which to 
separate C. microdontus specifically from it. Typical C. filicinus has 
the scales of the spikelets 2.5-3.5 mm. long, while C. microdontus has 
them only 2 mm. long, but occasionally colonies show scales inter- 
mediate in length and clearly bridging the gap between the two. 
In general, C. filicinus prefers saline or brackish habitats but is occa- 
sionally found in dune-hollows and other nearly fresh situations. In 
southeastern Massachusetts, at least, var. microdontus seems to be 
characteristic of fresh sandy pond-shores. 
STENOPHYLLUS CAPILLARIS (L.) Britton. S. capillaris presents two 
strikingly different variations which do not seem to have been recog- 
nized. In the typical form of the species the spikelets are 5-10 (rarely 
—20)-flowered, 2.5-7 mm. long, commonly ferruginous, occasionally 
blackish; all but the central (except in dwarfed plants with reduced 
inflorescences) commonly on slender pedicels up to 1.5 em. long; and 
basal inflorescences are wanting or few and mostly on definite culms. 
This plant is common in the southern states and extends northward 
to Schenectady County, New York, northern Vermont, Coés County, 
New Hampshire, and Kennebec and southern Penobscot Counties, 
Maine. In the northern half of the range, from Missouri and Virginia 
northward, there often occurs a plant which in its well developed 
1 Kaczmarek makes the point that, if the American Code throws aside the generic names 
Gillenia Moench, Meth. Suppl. 286 (1802) and Elodea Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 20 (1803) on ac- 
count of the earlier Gillena Adans. Fam. ii. 166 (1763) and Elodes Adans. l. c. 444 (1763), 
followers of that code should also discard the name Savastana Schrank, Baier. Fl. i. 100, 337 
(1789) because of the earlier Savastania Scopoli, Introd. 213 (1777). 
