77 
The tips of the fibres which form the cup project and form the 
marginal fringe. From P, caricinnella, Karst., to which this is closely 
allied, it differs in its narrower asci and smaller, simple, clavate 
sporidia. P. Caricis^ Desm., has sporidia cylindrical, straight or 
curved, 6xi//. 
On dead leaves of Carex crinita lying partly in water, on the 
banks of a rivulet in shady woods. West Chester, Pa., June, 1882. 
E. H. J. & G., No. 381. 
Nectria conigena. — Minute, membranaceous, smooth, orange- 
yellow, lighter and collapsing when dry; asci about sox 7/^; sporidia 
uniseriate or partially biseriate above, acutely elliptical, 2-nucleate, 
becoming uniseptate (?) 7-8x3-35/^; ostiolum papilliform, minute. 
Perithecia with a few^ weak, Avhite, radiating hairs at base. 
Differs from N. vulpina^ Cke., in its habitat, smaller and paler 
perithecia and rather narrower and more acute sporidia. 
On old decaying cone of Magnoli 
1882. 
J 
A List of Grasses from Washington Territory.* 
By F. Lamson Scriuner. 
Glyceria Canbvi, n. sp, — Perennial ; culm 2 — 3 ft. high, stout, 
erect, simple, smooth ; sheaths shorter than their internodes, smooth ; 
leaves of the culm 3, flat, between 2 and 3 b'nes \\x6^^ the upper 
about 6 in. long, scabrous on both sides and especially rough on the 
back near the briefly involute, pungent tip ; ligulc broad, obtuste, 
3 lin. long ; panicle narrow, about 6 in. long, 
densely flowered, usually interrupted below 
branches from 3—5 in a half- whorl, short (i_ 
in.) and erect or ascending; spikelets 3 lines 
long, 3 — 5-flowered, the rhachis readily breaking 
up ; outer glumes unequal, obtuse or acute, 
and larger one between 
2 
^^ 
flowering-glume about 
and rounded, 
3-nerved, the upper 
I and 2 lines in length ; 
_ lines long, strongly scabrous 
5-nerved, nerves terminating below the scarious 
and obtuse summit ; palea a little shorter than 
its glume, shortly ciliate on the nerves. 
(Figs. I and 2. Spikelets. Fig. 3. Outer 
glumes. Fig. 4. Anterior view of floret.) 
Cascade Mts., Washington Terr, Frank 
Tweedv and T. S. Brandegee, August, 1882. 
Allied to Atropis 
ifoliay Th u rbe r, an d 
^% 
L 
^ 
closely resembling some forms that have been 
referred to thnt species, as No. 634 of E. Hall's 
Oregon collection, but differing essentially from 
descriptions of that species and very unlike the 
specimens in the herbarium of the I'hilad. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. ticketed P^a ieniiifolia by Nuttall him- 
self. 
* ContUuied from pnge 66. 
