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lessons, or renewed old memories, brought pleasures which only the 
true lovers of Nature can understand. And he died, as he had often 
expressed the wish to die, suddenly and painlessly. 
To those who knew Charles Faxon best he has left the memory of a 
modest, kindly, unselfish gentleman whose life was inspiration and 
help to us all. 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 
SOME NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF POA FROM 
EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 
M. L. Fernatp and K. M. WIEGAND. 
Durine the course of studies of the flora of northeastern North 
America the genus Poa has been found to be in great need of critical 
investigation, and the two following species are here proposed as 
partly clarifying the confusion which has so long existed in the series 
of plants passing as P. debilis, P. sylvestris and P. alsodes. The plants 
have heretofore been variously referred to these species, and some- 
times one of them has been confused with P. autumnalis. The first 
is a common woodland species of the region from Newfoundland and 
southeastern Canada into the northeastern states and as a charac- 
teristic woodland plant may be called 
Poa saltuensis, n. sp., caespitosa; culmis tenuibus 2-8.5 dm. altis 
basi foliosis, nodis caulinis 2—4 remotis; foliis 2-5 mm. latis imis 
elongatis caulinis brevibus laminis quam vaginis brevioribus margini- 
bus laevibus vel ad apicem scabriusculis, ligulis superioribus 0.3-1.5 
mm. longis plerumque erosis; paniculis primariis 0.6-2 dm. longis 
nutantibus secundis, ramis filiformibus adscendentibus nutantibus 
plus minusve scabris ad apicem floriferis, mediis imisque plerumque 
binis rare solitariis vel ternis; spiculis 3-5-floris 3.5-5.5 mm. longis; 
glumis subaequalibus acutis quam lemma proximum quartam partem 
brevioribus glabris; lemmatibus 3.2-4 mm. longis acutis basi arach- 
noideis supra glabris viridibus vel rare purpurascentibus, margine 
anguste hyalinis, nervis marginalibus intermediisque prominentibus; 
antheris 1-1.2 mm. longis flavescentibus; caryopsibus ellipsoideo- 
fusiformibus fulvis 2-2.5 mm. longis. 
Caespitose: culms slender, 2-8.5 dm. tall, leafy at base; the cauline 
nodes 2—4, remote: leaves 2-5 mm. wide; the lower elongate; the 
