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Poa CHAPMANIANA Scribn. (P. cristata Chapm. not Walter). 
A strict, erect annual grass, 3-6 inches high. Leaves 4-1 
inch long, a line or less wide, erect or spreading, conduplicate, at 
least when dry; sheaths firm, closely surrounding the culm, striate, 
mostly shorter than the internodes, purplish near the base. Panicle 
generally narrow, occasionally some of the branches more or less 
spreading. Spikelets ovate, about 114 lines long, 3—6-flowered. 
Empty glumes nearly equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, the second 
and often the first 3-nerved, distinctly scabrous on the keels above. 
Flowering glume ovate, rather obtuse, 3-nerved (the nerve be- 
tween the marginal nerve and keel obsolete), the nerves silky 
villous for nearly their entire length, and at the base there is a 
small tuft of cob-webby hairs, which when extended exceed the + 
length of the glume. . 
Allied to Poa annua, but the narrower, conduplicate and shorter 
leaves, narrower panicle, and tuft of long cob-webby hairs at base 
of the flowering glumes which are apparently only 3-nerved, are 
characters which clearly separate it from that species. 
In making a new name for this grass I assume that Elliott was 
correct in reducing P. cristata Walt. to Poa rigida L. (Glyceria — 
vigida Smith. Festuca rigida Kunth). | 
Nashville (Dr. A. Gattinger); along the Tennessee River be- 
low Knoxville ar cite St. Louis, Mo. reste Florida 
_ (Chapman). 
Botanical Notes, 
Buxbaumia indusiata Bridel in Central New York—On Octo- 
ber 13, 1893, I was collecting in Enfield ravine, a large glen a 
about eight miles from Ithaca. While examining a rotten log for — 
liverworts, I noticed a capsule of a Buxbaumia. The circumstance 4 
was a surprise to me, as I at that time did not recollect having 4 : 
before seen a Buxbaumia growing on alog. The form and shape _ 
of the capsule were also peculiar. I had collected B. aphylla in — 
several places, but never before had seen one that looked like this. _ 
A careful search revealed about fifteen capsules, which were gruw- 
ing singly about the log. They were not quite mature, but 
nearly enough so to show all essential parts. 
Several days later, in thinking the matter over, I recollected 
having Seen in a number of the BULLETIN an article on Buxbaumia 
