136 . Rhodora [Jun 
one or two of the lower ones suborbicular), the style is mostly much 
longer (1-2.2 mm. long), and the petals are generally about 6 mm. 
long and much more conspicuous than in C. cyclocarpa. 
Lonpon, ENGLAND. 
PASPALUM IN EASTERN Connecticut.— Paspalum psammophilum 
occurs on both banks of the Shetucket at Baltic, in the town of Sprague, 
a station reported by Dr. C. B. Graves in the recent Connecticut 
Catalogue. This species grows here on dry, coarse gravel, which in 
many places is nearly destitute of other vegetation. It becomes fully 
prostrate about Spetember 1st, when the culms of a vigorous plant 
radiate over a circular area from 1. to 1.5 meters in diameter. After 
visiting this station in early September, 1913, I took the trolley down 
the river, stopping first at Versailles, three miles south. The same 
Paspalum was abundant here on the dry gravelly banks of the river. 
The next stop was at Taftville, two miles farther south, where a brief 
search revealed the same species growing in fine sand. My plan had 
been to follow the Shetucket to its entrance into the Thames at Nor- 
wich, some three miles beyond, but with a shower threatening, it 
seemed advisable to return. 
There is a fine station for P. circulare, a few miles west of Sprague, 
in the adjoining town of Franklin. "This station is on the banks of the 
Yantic, another tributary of the Thames. The soil here is a moist 
rich alluvium, quite unlike the dry, barren sand and gravel of the 
Shetucket, on which P. psammophilum was collected. 
The stations mentioned are of interest as showing the two species 
following up the rivers from the coast. Baltic, the most northerly 
station, is twenty-two miles from Long Island Sound, or eight miles 
from Norwich, the head of the Thames, which is a tidal stream. The 
station on the Yantic is three miles above Norwich. Specimens have 
been deposited in the Gray Herbarium.— R. W. Woopwarp, New 
Haven, Connecticut. 
Vol. 16, no. 186, including pages 97 to 116, was issued 8 June, 1914. 
