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panicles, long capillary brancbes, scabrous enipty glumes, and long 

 sterile palea. Elymus Pringlei Scribn. and Merrill. Wet soil in a 

 Valley near Tula, State of Hidalgo, altitude 2,200 m. 



In the second article by Lamson-Scribner and Merrill, 

 the authora publisli some notes on Panicum nitidum Lam., 

 Panicum scoparium Lam. and Panicum pubescens Lam. baied on 

 the careful drawings and notes of some of Michaux's and 

 Lamarck's types in the Herbarium of the Museum d'Histoire 

 Naturelle de Paris. In this paper they review carefully the 

 species under consideration referring the various grasses where 

 they were found. The drawings accompanying the sketch are 

 excellent and ought to clear up some of the matters with reference 

 tö these much confused species. 



In the paper on Miscellaneous Notes and Description of New 

 Species by F. Lamson-Scribner and Carleton R. Ball, 

 the following species are described: Andropogon argyraeus macrus 

 Hack. Type collected at Biloxi, Mississippi. Andropogon Bakeri. 

 Pine Lands at Grasmere, Florida. Andr'opogon Linnaeanns 

 (Hack.) Scribn. and Kearney. Andropogon Mississippiensis. Biloxi, 

 Mississippi. Andropogon scoparius polycladus. Braidentown, Manatee 

 County, Florida. Andropogon scoparius villosissimus Kearn. Very 

 dry soil along the railroad at Waynesboro, Mississippi. Paspalum 

 paspaloides villosum. Panicum Comhsii. Damp, tertile flat woods 

 at Chipley, Washington County, Florida. Aristida Comhsii. Gras- 

 mere , Florida. Aristida intermedia. Near Biloxi , Mississippi. 

 General distribution. — Open, dry, sandy soil, Iowa to Texas 

 and Mississippi. Aristida purpurascens glaucissima Kearn. Very 

 dry sterile soil in an opening in the pine forest, 6 miles above 

 Biloxi, Mississippi. Triodia seslerioides aristata. Clarcona, Orange 

 County, Florida. General distribution. — Not uncommon in Ion', 

 open woods of central Florida. Elymus Arkansanus. In woods 

 of northwestern Arkansas. Elymus australis Biltmore Herbarium, 

 collected on banks of streams at Biltmore, North Carolina. 

 General distribution. — Moist woods and thickets from North 

 Carolina and Florida west to Arkansas and Missouri. Elymus 

 hrachystachys. In the Indian Territory, chiefly on the False 

 Washita, between Fort Cobb and Fort Arbuckle. General distri- 

 bution. — Moist, open or somewhat shaded ground. from Michigan 

 and South Dakota south to Texas, New Mexico and into Mexico. 

 Elymus diversiglumis. Rieh openings of the Bear Lodge Moun- 

 tains, Wyoming, altitude 6,000 feet. Elymus glabriflorus (Vasey). 

 Low, miry, even saltish places at Pointe-a-la-Hache, Louisiana. 

 General distribution. — Low, rieh woods or thickets from Pennsyl- 

 vania and Georgia to Tennessee and New Mexico. 



L. H. Pammel (Iowa). 



Bailey, J. Manson^ Cotributions to the flora of Queens- 

 land, (resp.) New Guinea, and plants repuled 

 poisonous to stock. (Queensland Agricultural Journal. 

 Vol. V. Part 1. p. 37—42, 387—390, 483—488. Vol. VI. 

 p. 39.) 



