56 Rhodora [Marcu 
S. lacustris setis 4 hispidis semine sublongioribus, S. acutus setis 
hispidis 3 vel 4 [by implication semine nec longioribus]. 
Both Bigelow's description and Muhlenberg's unquestionably 
define S. occidentalis and the type station, “deep water at Fresh 
Pond," is likewise conclusive, for S. occidentalis was often collected in 
Fresh Pond in the days prior to its conversion into a reservoir, but 
the old collections show no material of S. validus from the pond, 
merely from the shallow Glacialis and other small pools of the region. 
There is no question then that we should revive the name. 
ScimPUS acutus Muhl. ex Bigelow, Fl. Bost. 15. (1814); Descr. 
Gram. 33 (1817). S. lacustris, var. occidentalis Wats. Bot. Cal. 
ii. 218 (1880). S. occidentalis (Wats.) Chase, Ruopora, vi. 68, t. 53, 
fig. c (1904). 
M. L. FERNALD, Gray Herbarium. 
Vol. 22, no. 254, includind pages 17 to 32, was issued 11 March, 1920. 
