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truncate, and equal or exceed the palets. P. brachypJiylla is really 

 intermediate between P. fliiitans and P. acutiflora, resembling the 

 latter in habit, but at once separated from it by the smaller flow- 

 ering scales, which are obtuse and not acuminate as in that species. 



Robinson & Schrenk's No. 221, collected in a wet meadow at 

 St. John's, Newfoundland, August 7, 1894, appears to be a small 

 and simple-panicled form of this; the spikelets are fewer-flowered 

 and the flowering scales are slightly longer, sometimes about 

 equalling the palet, but otherwise the plant is the same. 



This well-marked species doubtless occurs in other sections, 

 but, owing to its strong resemblance in habit and general appear- 

 ance to P. aciitiflora, it has been overlooked. I should be exceed- 

 ingly glad to receive more material. 



