1917] Blake,— Vernonia altissima var. taeniotricha, var. nov. 167 
from Carolina, and adds one other, “N. Orleans. Drummond.” 
Fortunately there is in the Gray Herbarium a specimen of this latter, 
and it is without any question the southern plant with small spikelets. 
All doubt as to the application of the name A. ramosus being removed, 
the new combination is made below. 
ALOPECURUS GENICULATUS L., var. ramosus (Poir.), n. comb. A. 
ramosus Poir. in Lamarck, Encyc. Meth. Bot. viii. 776 (1808). 
TYPE SPECIMEN: CAROLINA: Bosc. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED (all in the Gray Herbarium or the Herbarium 
of the New England Botanical Club). Massacuusetts: path by 
ditch, Great Meadows, 20 rods east of rocky island, Concord, July 7, 
1859, H. D. Thoreau. Connecticut: Rocky Hill, June 15, 1894, 
Frances Wilson Starmer; wet places, common, Rocky Hill, May 28, 
1894, Frances Wilson Starmer, Grasses of Conn., no. 59. PENNSYL- 
VANIA: meadows near Philadelphia, July, 1876, Isaac C. Martindale. 
VirGINIA: in roadside ditch, Buckroe, May 18, 1912, B. L. Robinson, 
no. 417. Sours CaroLina: damp clay soils, Santee Canal, April, 
H. W. Ravenel. Gerorata: Chattahoochie, May 2, 1899, Wm. M. 
Canby. Fiortpa: Chapman; 1843, F. Rugel, no. 223. MIssIssippt: 
Starkville, April 19, 1892, S. M. Tracy, no. 1396. Lovistana: New 
Orleans, Drummond, Riddell; common in wet ground, Gretna, April 
19, 1899, C. R. Ball, no. 303. Texas: Wright; Terrell, May 5, 1904, 
F. J. Tyler. TENNESSEE: damp ground, Jackson, April, 1893, 
Samuel M. Bain, no. 212. Oxtanoma: Huntsville, April 20, 1896, 
Laura A. Blankinship; at grassy edge of springy creek, Alva, May 1 
and 20, 1914, G. W. Stevens, nos. 3,018 & 3,044; edge of small pond, 
Whitehorse, April 30, 1913, G. W. Stevens, no. 243; at edge of pond, 
Cherokee, May 24, 1913, G. W. Stevens, no. 643. Kansas: low 
ground, Riley Co., May 21, 1895, J. B. Norton, no. 600. Iowa: 
Mt. Pleasant, July 18, 1894, J. H. Mills. Iturnots: wet lands, 
Athens, 1861, E. Hall; damp heavy ground, Peoria, July, 1903, F. E. 
McDonald; moist soil, Wady Petra, June 13, 1899, Virginius H. Chase, 
Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. no. 335. Wisconsin: Madison, T. J. Hale. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
VERNONIA ALTISSIMA Nutt. var. taeniotricha, var. nov.— Caulis et 
panicula plus minusve sordide pilosa pilis laxe curvatis multiloculatis; 
folia supra sparse et sordide pubescentia infra ad costam patenti- 
pilosa ad venas laterales patenti-pilosula pilis laxis sordidis multi- 
loculatis— InpIaANA: in a prairie habitat, along the Lake Erie 
Railway, west of Goldsmith, Tipton Co., 26 Aug. 1913, Mrs. Chas. C. 
Deam 14,114; low border of swamp about 6 km. east of Columbia 
City, Whitley Co., 23 Aug. 1914, Chas. C. Deam 14,539 (TYPE in 
Gray Herb.). It.tnors: roadside, Urbana, 23 Sept. 1909, A. S. 
