104 Rhodora [June 
D. leucocoma (Nash), n. comb. Panicum phacothrix Scribn. 
U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. 7, 58 (1897), not Trin. Sp. Gram. 
Ic. iii. t. 91 (1827). Syntherisma leucocoma Nash, Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Cl. xxv. 295 (June, 1898). Panicum leucocomum Scribn. l. c. ed. 2, 
58 (July, 1898). 
D. badia (Scribn. & Merr.), n. comb. Panicum badium Seribn. 
& Merr. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. 24, 12, fig. 3 (1900). 
Syntherisma badia (Scribn. & Merr.) Chase, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 
xix. 191 (1906). 
D. argillacea (Hitchc. & Chase), n. comb. Syntherisma argillacea 
Hitche. & Chase, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. xviii. 296 (1917). 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
REGARDING GENTIANA ANDREWSII 
IN THE COASTAL PLAIN OF NEW JERSEY. 
Bayarp Lona. 
SoME time before the appearance in 1917, of Professor M. L. Fer- 
nald’s paper on the Closed Gentians of northeastern America! so 
clarifying of difficulties taxonomic, it had been realized by the field- 
student of southern New Jersey that the distributional status of 
Gentiana Andrewsii in that area was far from satisfactory. From 
the knowledge of its general distribution in the Piedmont of adjacent 
Pennsylvania there had been little hesitancy in believing the plant 
to be more or less frequent in the northern, Piedmont part of New 
Jersey, but its occurrence in the southern, Coastal Plain portion had 
not been accepted so readily. 
Dr. Britton in 1889 in his Catalogue of Plants Found in New 
Jersey had noted the species from five localities in the southern part 
of the state. In 1903 Keller and Brown in their Flora of Philadel phia 
and Vicinity had considered it to be generally distributed and omitted 
all localities. Dr. Stone in 1911 in The Plants of Southern New J ersey 
had reported it as “occasional in the Middle district and rare on the 
coast and Cape May peninsula." Mr. Norman Taylor in his Flora 
of the Vicinity of New York, the latest treatment covering the state, 
records the distribution thus: *N. J. Throughout the state, de- 
creasing southward and wanting in the pine-barrens, but found, 
!Fernald, RHODORA, xix. 147 (1917). 
