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the species above quoted are evidently very near the two extra-tropical 
South American ones, Leptochloris^ Munro, and Chloridiopsis^ J. 
Gay, but require much closer examination to establish their specific 
distinctions. 
I am confident that I have both of Fournier's species from 
within our limits — one from Laredo, Texas, communicated by Mr. 
Isaac Burk, and the other the grass collected by Mr. Pringle. 
North A?nerican Genera of Grasses. (See Bulletin, Vol. ix., 
p. 134). — Leptu7'tiSy Br., is represented by Z. Bolanderi, Thurber, 
No. 4,669 Bolander, collected in the Russian River Valley, Califor- 
nia. Z. incurvatiis^ Trin., has been gathered by Mr. Burk and others 
from the ballast grounds near Philadelphia. L, paniculatus^ Nutt., is 
Schedonnardus l^exanus^ Steud., Lepturus stands between Agropy- 
rum and Hordetim, In the Gramineae of the Genera Plantarum, 
now in press, I am advised by Mr. Bentham that Isachne is brought 
into Panicese between Bcckmannia and Paniciim, Polypogon follows 
Agrostisy and Alopecurus is placed in Phalaride^e. 
ArundOy Lin., which immediately precedes Phragmites^ should be 
included in my list of North American genera. Prof. G. C. Nealley, 
of the State College of Texas, has recently sent me specimens of 
A, Donax^ L., collected in his vicinity, where it has probably been 
introduced, as the species is regarded as native only of the Old 
World. . 
Girard College, Philadelphia. F. Lamson Scribner. 
Grasses Collected by Mr. Pringle.— Mr. C. G. Pringle sends an 
interesting lot of grasses which he has collected during the past sea- 
son on the Pacific slope. These specimens, numbering about fifty 
species, fully sustain Mr. Pringle's character as a collector, for it is 
well known that no one makes better specimens or sends out more 
complete samples. Among the more desirable or interesting species 
in this lot, the following may be mentioned: 
Phalaris ameihystina^ Trin.; Hierochloa macrophylla^ Thurb.; 
Stipa speciosa^ Trin. & Rupr.; Epicajupes rigcns^ Benth.; Gastridium 
ausirale^ P.B.; Deyeuxia ceqinvalvis, Benth. {Agrostis, Trin.); De- 
yeuxia Bolanderi, (Thurb.); D. deschavipsoides^ (Trin.), a species very 
distinct from Mr. Buckley's Cala?nagrostis rubcscenSy as will be seen 
by Mr. Pringle's specimens of the latter species; Deyeicxia Aleutica^ 
(Trin.); Aira caryophyllea, L.; MonaniJiochloe Httoralis^ Engelman ; 
Lamarckia aurea^ Moench.; Melica stricta^ Boland.; Agropyrum cam- 
nutn, Reichb., a remarkable mountain form, appearing like a distinct 
species; and Hordeum muriniim^ L. 
There are several species of Agrastis which have not before ap- 
peared in our western collections, and which are as yet undetermined. 
Poa PringUi and Diplachne viscida^ two new species discovered last 
year (188 ij, were collected in quantity in their original stations the 
past season. 
Girard College, Philadelphia. F. Lamson Scribner. 
Notes from Chemung County, N. Y.— On the 20th of July, 1882, 
I visited Mutton Hill Pond, Apalachin, Tioga County, N. Y,, in 
