1914) Loomis,— Avena fatua in eastern Massachusetts 183 
vicinity of Cap à l'Aigle, August 3, 1905, J. Macoun, no. 68,351, in 
part. Marne: dry open woods, Dover, August 7, 1895, Fernald, 
no. 398, in part. ONTARIO: Lake Superior region, Loring. Mucut- 
GAN: Isle Royale, August 10, 1909, W. S. Cooper, no. 32; moist grassy 
places, Keweenaw County, July, 1889, O. A. Farwell, no. 49a. 
H. scABRUM Michx., var. intonsum, n. var., caule infra cum tricho- 
mis gracilibus sordidis 3-5 mm. longis villoso; foliis pluribus 20-30 
subaequalibus vel paucioribus 12-20 superioribus manifeste minori- 
bus, utrinque villosis cum uniformibus longis sordidis trichomis, 
quibus foliorum mediorum 3-5 mm. longis; ramis inflorescentiae to- 
mentosis glandulosisque. 
Tall, 5-11 dm. high; stem densely villous below with slender sordid 
trichomes (3-5 mm. long): leaves rather numerous (20-30) and sub- 
equal, or fewer (12-20) and rapidly decreasing upward, villous on both 
surfaces with uniform long sordid trichomes, those of the median 
leaves 3-5 mm. long: branches of the inflorescence tomentose and 
glandular. — ILLINOIS: "In nemorosis sterilibus pr. Athenas," Sep- 
tember, E. Hall, no. 35 (TYPE in Gray Herbarium); and “In collibus 
aridis," Athens, Hall, nos. 36, 178 & 179. 
Gray HERBARIUM. : 
AVENA FATUA IN EASTERN MaAssACHUSETTS.— On July 1, 1914, one 
plant of an unfamiliar Oat was found growing by the roadside on 
Eliot St., Sherborn, Mass. This was placed with the Boston Society 
of Natural History (No. 1516). On August 13 another and larger 
plant was collected on Rockwood St. This was divided, one half 
being sent to the Boston Society (No. 1563), and the other to the 
Gray Herbarium where my determination as Avena fatua L. was 
confirmed by Mr. Frank C. Seymour, who also informed me that prob- 
ably the species had not been found nearer than New Jersey. On 
August 17, another plant (No. 1567) was found on Eliot Street and 
August 26 still another in an abandoned chicken-yard on Main Street. 
The stations are all at some distance from each other. This is proba- 
bly the first record of the finding of this species in New England the 
range as given in the “Manual” being “Ont. and O. (rare); Wisc., 
Ill., and westward.” — Marrua Louise Loomis, Sherborn, Massa- 
chusetts. 
Avena fatua was reported among the ballast weeds of New York and Phila- 
delphia in the Preliminary Catalogue of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta of the 
Torrey Botanical Club, page 89 (1888). It was also included in J. N. Bishop's 
Catalogue of all Phaenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants in the 
State of Connecticut, ed. 2, page 21 (1896) and ed. 3, page 8 (1901), as occur- 
