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P. LiNDiiKiMKiu Nash, var. typicum. P. Lindheimeri Nash, Bull. 

 Torr. Bot. CI. xxiv. 196 (1897); Hitchcock & Chase, Contrib. V. S. 

 Nat. Herl). xv. 203 (1910). P. Funstoni Scribn. & Merr. U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. Div. Agrost. Circ. xxxv. 4 (1901). — California to Florida, north 

 to Minnesota, southern Ontario and New England. 



** Var. septentrionale, n. var. Planta laxe vcl dense cespitosa 

 2-7 dm. alta; vaginis glabris vel plus minusve pilosis pilis divfergen- 

 tibus, laminis firmis utrinque glabris vel sparse breviterque pilosis; 

 paniculis primariis ovoideis 2.5-7 em. longis rhaehi glabro; spiculis 

 plerumque 1.6-2 mm. longis — Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to 

 Manitoba, south to Connecticut, New York, Indiana and Missouri. 

 The following are representative of a series of about 100 sheets 

 studied. Nova Scotia: wet sphagnous swale at border of Beaver 

 Lake, Yarmouth Co., July 25, 1920, Long & Under, no. 19,805, 

 October 6, 1920, Fernald & Under, no. 19,814 (unusually tall and 

 little tufted from growing in a dense swale). New Brunswick: 

 river-gravels and shingly border of thicket by the St. John River, 

 Woodstock, July 14, 1916, Fernald & Long, no. 12,527 (type in Gray 

 Herb.); recent clearing, Ingleside, Westfield, August 7, 1909, Fernald, 

 no. 1255; gravelly shore of the basin, Gorge of the Aroostook River, 

 Fernald, no. 1250. Maine: St. John River at. mouth of Little Black 

 River, July 27, 1900, Collins & Williams; gravelly shores of St. 

 John River, St. Francis, August. 5, 1893, Fernald, no. 166a; Fort 

 Kent, August 1, 1900, Collins k Williams; river-thicket, Fort. Fair- 

 field, August 10, 1909, Fernald, no. 1257; sandy river-bank (Penobscot 

 River), Bradley, September 16, 1897, Fernald; sandy clearings and 

 pastures, Fairfield, July 24, 1916, Fernald & Long, no. 12,751; dry 

 wooded slope of Mt. Megunticook, Camden, August 13, 1913, Fer- 

 nald; in sand, Canton, July 7, 1906, Parlin, no. 195S; edge of cliff, 

 Ogunquit, Wells, July 15, 1903, Parlin, no. 1577. New Hampshire: 

 sandy pasture, Shelburne, July 21, 1913, Dearie; roadside, Stewarts- 

 town, July 19, 1917, Fernald & Pease, no. 16,826; railroad track, 

 Stratford, July 18, 1917, Fernald k Pease, no. 16,810; dry soil, Nor- 

 thumberland, 'Fernald k Pease, no. 16,811; gravelly bank of Pemige- 

 wasset River, North Woodstock, July 7, 1915, Fernald, no. 11,515; 

 sandv river-terraces above Plymouth, July 30, 1915, Fernald, no. 

 11,516; Nashua, June 24, 1908, Robinson, no. 789. VERMONT: 

 Willoughby Mt., Westmore, Horace Mann et al. (axis slightly pubes- 

 cent, approaching that of var. fascicnlainm). Massachusetts: 

 gravel, Manchester, July 15, 1913, Hubbard, no. 655; Holbrook, 

 June 18, 1899, Creenman, no. 3133; Reboboth, June 22, 1914, Forbes; 

 sand-plain, Springfield, June 8, 1913, Fernald, no. 8650; woodroad 

 near Shaw Pond,' Becket, July 28, 1916, Hoffmann; rocky roadside, 

 Mt. Washington, August 11, 191 1, Hoffmann; wet sandy roadside, 

 Stockbridge, June 20, 1914, Hoffmann; dry clearings and open woods 

 on sericite schist, near summit of Serpentine Ledge, Florida, June 

 24, 1913, Fernald & Long, no. 8620. Rhode Island: sterile meadow, 



