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outer glumes, and in having the lowest awn straight and shorter than 
tlie others. Brazos County, Texas; G. C. Nealley, 1883. 
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A New Grass- 
By Geo. Vasev. 
Ammophila Curtissii.— Culms 3 to 6 feet high, from a strong, ^^ 
perennial rhizoma, growing singly or in small tufts; base of the culm 
clothed with the rigid, imbricated, 2-ranked sheaths, above the base 
3 or 4 distant leaves, the sheaths shorter than the internodes, very 
smooth, firm, the Hgule an obscure, ciliate ring, the blade becoming 
involute and setaceous, 4 to 12 inches long. 
Panicle 8 to 10 inches long, narrow and strict, the rhachis roughish, 
the branches very numerous, single, or in pairs below; erect, loosely 
flowered, sub-divided nearly to the base, the lower ones two to three 
mches long. Spikelets short-pedicelled, 2 to 2.25 lines long: the 
outer glumes unequal, keeled, nerveless, the lower one ovate, obtuse, 
naif to two-thirds as long as the upper, \vhich is two lines long, barely 
acute; the flowering-glume and its palet of similar texture and equal 
length, slightly longer than the larger outer glume, obtuse or acutish, 
strongly ciliate on the keel of the flowering-glume and on the two 
keels of the palet, the basal hairs scant and about one-third as long 
as the flower. 
This was distributed in 1879 by Mr. A, H. Curtiss as Calamagros- 
iis brevipilis (now AmmopJiila brevipilis), from which it differs in its 
greater size, its longer involute leaves, and its much longer and nar- 
rower panicle, with the branches sub-divided and flowering nearly to 
the base; the flowers are very similar, but differ notably in the latter 
having a ring of very short hairs at the base of the outer glumes be- 
side those at the base of the flowers. 
Collected by Mr. A, H. Curtiss on the Indian River, Florida, and 
to him I take pleasure in dedicating the species. 
The Pteridophyta of Litchfield Co., Ct.— During the past three 
summers I have spent a portion of my vacation in Litchfield County, 
Ct,, and am able to report a considerable fern list, with a few new 
stations for some species. Most of my collecting has been confined 
^0 the towns of Cornwall and Goshen, extending once to Bantam 
L^'^ke, where the extremely local Marsilia quadrifolia is found, and 
once to Salisbury and northward along the mountains of S. W. Mas- 
sachusetts. In the list, C stands for Cornwall for species not found 
^n Goshen, and S for Salisbury. 
EQuiSETACEyE. — Equisetum arvense, L., E. sylvaticiun, L., E, hi- 
Ophioglossace.k.— <7//^/6g-/^ji///// vulgatum, L., Botrychium sim- 
A^A^ Hitch., B. t€rnatum, Swz., B. lanceolaUnn, Angs., B. Virginta- 
'^^^w, Swz, (5). 
I have never found B, lanccolatum elsewhere except with its con- 
gener B. matricariccfolium. Diligent search here failed to reveal it. 
• ^[l^^^lex is probably new to the State. , 
^'^'^-^^^s,—Polypodium vulgare, L., AiHantum pedatum, \.., Ptcrts 
"^^i^^ilimi^ I-., Aspleminn ebcneum^ Ait., A. Trichoma nes, L. (S), A. 
