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ovate, acutish, not keeled, coriaceous, smooth; flowering glumes 

 ovate, acutish, slightly thinner than the empty glumes, rounded on 

 the back, about 7-nerved, 2^ to 3 lines long, pubescent on the mar- 

 gins and back below, and thickly pubescent on the rachilla; palet 

 ovate, about 2 lines long, in maturity divided to the base, the two 

 keels winged: stamens 3, included; stigmas 2, plumose; grain con- 

 cavo-convex, roundish, the 2 thin margins incurved, the 2 thickened 

 styles persistent at the summit. 



Collected at Brazos Santiago, Texas, by G. C.Nealley, 1891. I place 

 this species doubtfully in Melica, although it differs in several particu- 

 lars from any species of that genus with which I am acquainted. 

 First, the empty glumes are rather thicker than the flowering ones; 

 second, the upper glume is 7- to 9-nerved; third, the upper flowers of 

 the spikelet are not club-shaped; fourth, the base of the flowering 

 glume and the rachilla are densely pubescent; fifth, the ovary is 

 roundish in outline, concavo-convex with the margins incurved, and 

 2 thick horn-like styles.— George Vasey, Washington, D. C. 



Fas elation in Cni 



lanceolatus. — The most peculiar case of fascia- 

 thistle 



tion that ever came under my notice is that of a common 



{Cnicus lanceolatus Hoffm.) recently ob- 

 tained from Grand Traverse county- in 



Michigan. The accompanying cut will give 

 some idea of its shape. The specimen 

 where cut off, a few inches above the ground, 

 is 1% inches wide. Its greatest width is 

 \\% inches, the average width being a little 

 over 7 inches and nowhere more than an 

 inch thick. The plant is 3 ft. 7 in - hl § h 

 including the bending top. It does not 

 branch, but for the most part the broad 

 stem is well covered with leaves. Th e nu ~ 

 merous flower heads are sessile or nearlv so 

 at the very summit.— J. W. Toumey, Bot- 

 anical Laboratory, Mich. Agrl College. 



A new Erio<rvnia. Notes. 



Eriogynia 



J m 



(Pctrophytitm, Nuttall) Hendersoni n. sp.— 



A depressed branched plant more or less 

 pilose; leaves green, very slightly if at a 

 sericeous, half to one inch long, spatulate, 

 somewhat abruptly acute, thick, three-ribbed beneath, those of the 

 scapes very small and few, resembling bracts; inflorescence racemose, 



