162 Rhodora [August 



bogs, fruiting when only 1.5-2 dm. high (panicles 4-6 cm. long), 

 others, as at the quaking margins of Harpers and Western Lakes 

 in Shelburne Co., making dense stands 1.2-1.3 m. high (panicles 

 1.7-1.9 dm. long). 



Glyceria laxa Scribn. Eastward to Hants and Halifax Cos. 



**Festuca rubra L., var. multiflora (Hoffm.) Aschers. & 

 Graebn. Roadsides, Dartmouth. 



Agropyron caninum (L.) Beauv., forma glaucum Pease & Moore. 

 Crest of barrier beach, East Jordan, Shelburne Co. 



*A. caninum (L.) Beauv., var. tenerum (Vasey) Pease & Moore, 

 forma ciliatum (Scribn. & Sm.) Pease & Moore, Rhodora, xii. 72 

 (1910). Thin open humus and basaltic talus, North Mt., Belle Isle 

 (Annapolis); Shobel's Mt., Sandy Cove (Digby). 



Elymus virginicus L., var. hirsutiglumis (Scribn.) Hitchc. 

 Digby Co.: wooded basaltic talus, Shobel's Mt., Sandy Cove. 



Cyperus dentatus Torr. Eastward at least to Lunenburg Co.; 

 characteristic of sandy or gravelly shores. 



Eleocharis Robbinsii Oakes. Widely distributed; new stations 

 in Annapolis, Hants and Lunenburg Cos. 



E. olivacea Torr. Additional stations are as follows. Yarmouth 

 Co.: peaty quagmire-pools in sphagnous bog near railroad station, 

 Argyle Head. Lunenburg Co.: peaty quagmire-margin of Wallace 

 Lake, Italy Cross. 



*E. nitida Fernald. Exsiccated roadside gutter, North Mt., 

 Belle Isle, Annapolis Co. 



The occurrence of this little plant on the basaltic North Mt. is 

 interesting, since all its other stations (in Newfoundland, Quebec,and 

 northern New Hampshire) are likewise on basic or more or less 

 calcareous rock. 



**E. tuberculosa (Michx.) R. & S. Wet sandy or peaty beach 

 of Harper Lake, Shelburne Co.; the typical southern plant, here- 

 tofore unknown from east of Massachusetts. 



Scirpus Olneyi Gray. An additional station in Yarmouth Co. 

 is at the border of a salt marsh along Argyle River. 



**S. campestris Britton, var. novae-angliae (Britton) Fernald. 

 Border of salt marsh, Jordan Falls, Shelburne Co. ; heretofore unknown 

 east of southern Maine. 



Rynchospora fusca (L.) Ait. Common eastward at least to 

 Lunenburg and Hants Cos. 



R. capitellata (Michx.) Vahl. Common or at least frequent. 

 New stations in Digby, Annapolis and Shelburne Cos. 



R. capitellata, var. DLSCUT1ENS (Clarke) Blake. Additional 

 stations are, for SHELBURNE Co.: wet peaty margin of Harper Lake; 

 upper border of eobbly beach of Bower's (Beaver Dam) Lake. 



