1914] Woodward,— Euphorbia Cyparissias 167 
THE GLABROUS-LEAVED SWEET GALE.— In his Monographie des 
Myricacées Dr. Auguste Chevalier treats the Sweet Gale, Myrica 
Gale L. as a distinct genus Gale and divides the cireumpolar G. palus- 
tris (Lam.) Chevalier into many varieties, six of which he credits to 
North America. Most of the varieties seem to be of minor impor- 
tance, based upon the toothing of leaves and slight variations of pu- 
bescence, but one, his var. subglabra is better distinguished and has a 
well defined geographie range. In typical Myrica Gale the leaves 
are more or less pubescent, at least on the veins beneath. This shrub, 
with pubescent leaves, is rather generally distributed in the cooler 
regions of Eurasia and North America. The most pronounced de- 
parture from it is the strictly North American 
Myrica GALE L., var. subglabra (Chevalier), n. comb. Gale palus- 
tris, var. subglabra Chevalier, Mon. Myric. 185 [reprint, 101] (1901). 
Leaves glabrous or glabrate throughout. 
Chevalier cites only four stations: in Labrador, Newfoundland, 
Quebec and Maine; but var. subglabra 1s widely distributed from 
Labrador to Lake Huron, south to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 
in some areas apparently quite replacing the more widely distributed 
pubescent-leaved shrub.— M. L. FERNALD, Gray Herbarium. 
PANICUM WRIGHTIANUM IN Lone IstAND.— After the publication 
of the revision of Panicum by Hitchcock & Chase (Contr. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. Vol. 15. 1910) we found the name Panicum deminutiwum Peck 
(Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 116. Bot. Vol. 10: 27. 1907) had been over- 
looked. "Through the kindness of Dr. H. D. House, Assistant State 
Botanist of New York, we have received a portion of the type specimen. 
It proves to be Panicum wrightianum Scribn. The specimen was col- 
lected by Professor C. H. Peck, Wading River (“Little Pond”), 
N. Y. This Long Island station is the only one known in New York 
for this species. It was found in Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1910 
by C. H. Knowlton and in 1911 by E. W. Sinnott.— AGNES CHASE, 
Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. 
STATION FOR FRUITING EUPHORBIA CyYPARISSIAS.— On the west 
shore of New Haven Harbor, but within the borders of West Haven, 
is an extensive station where Euphorbia Cyparissias fruits freely. 
