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than the lower and distinctly 3-nerved below ; first flowering-glume 
2 lines long, hairy near the base, scabrous above and scarious mar- 
gined near the obtuse summit. 
Poa cmsia^ Sm., var. strictior, Gray, 
Poa Nevadensis, Vasey, ined. (P. tenuifoUa, var. scabra^ Vasey, 
in herb.) Equals No. 474 of E. Palmer's collection of 1877. 
Culms 2 feet or more high, scabrous below the panicle ; sheaths 
and leaves scabrous, very narrow, and carinately folded when dry, 
those of the radical tuft 6 — 12 inches long, the upper leaf i — 3 inches 
long, ligule about 2 lines long, scabrous ; panicle narrow, rather 
densely flowered, about 6 inches long, branches 2 or more at each 
joint, the lower about 2 inches long, the longer ones branched and 
flower-bearing above, naked below ; spikelets 3—5 lines long, 3—8- 
flowered ; glumes scabrous, the outer ones 1^—2 lines long, nearly 
equal or the lower a little shorter, obtuse or subacute, 3-nerved ; 
first flowering-glume 2 lines long, a line br#^ad, obtuse, nerves ob- 
scure, scarious margined above, and with a few very short hairs at 
the base; palea ciliate on the keels and scabrous between them. 
The characters of this grass agree in many points with those of 
Atropis scabrella, Thurber, in Bot. Cal. ii., p. 310, but whether it be 
the same I am unable to say, having never seen any authentic speci- 
mens of that species. 
\ 
A propos of Cicero Swamp — By my last Bulletin I learn that 
the Rev. Mr. Wibbe thinks poorly of this swamp. We of the Syra- 
cuse Botanica?! Club entertain different sentiments regarding it. 
During the past two years we have visited it six times — once in 
May, twice in June, once in July, once in August, and once in Sep- 
tember. We have encountered only one rattlesnake, and he gave us 
long and tm-iely warning of his presence, so that several of us felt 
safe in watching him coil twice, in counting five of his rattles, and in 
listening till he began his third rattle (which, by the way, sounds like 
a bumble-bee under a glass, and no louder), then we walked away, 
he making no attempt to pursue us. 
From the accounts of the dwellers in that vicinity, these snakes 
never attack one unless they are injured, and always give three warn- 
ing rattles. ' . 
In our six visits we have seen but one other snake, and this 
neither troubled us nor we it. 
_ Lodi Swamp, commonly called Tamarack Swamp, has been a rich 
held for botanists, yet not a very pleasant one for ladies to visit, as 
It borders on the Erie Canal, and one can never go there without meet- 
ing trarnps or rough boys, who, to do them credit, have proved, like 
the rattlesnakes, not at all troublesome to us. But in " Tamarack " 
we always see many and large snakes. We have collected there, for 
years, all the plants Mr. Wibbe mentions, excepting, perhaps, Soli- 
dago hnoides and Viola renifolia. I can find no description of the 
latter, so am riot sure about it. 
Mitella nuda is very common in Onondaga County. We first 
found u on a rocky hillside near Marcellus Station ; since then we 
have found it in swamps and on hills. It can be collected in the 
