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The Howers of this grass are, when in their prime, a grayish-purple in 

 color, and, when wet with dew, reflect tlie morning sunlight in a peculiar 

 and pleasing manner. 



8. Piinicum minus Muhl. Wood Panicum. 



A specimen, so named by Mr. Nash, of Columbia University, N. Y.^ 

 was taken from a dry hillside in Hippie's coal mine woods, Vigo county, 

 where it is frequent. 



The first record. 



9. Pan'ciim pubescent Lam. Hairy Panicum. 



Another species named for me by Mr. Xash. It is frequent along tlie 

 T. H. cV L. Railway in Vigo county. 

 The first record. 

 10. Homalorenchnis lenticulans (Miclix.) Scribn. Catch-fiy Grass. 

 (Leerx/a lenticular is Michx.) 

 Taken but once, October 6, 1S*)3, from the margin of Five-Mile Pond, 

 Vigo county. 



The first record. 

 ®11. Sporobolus asper {M\chx.) Kunth. Drop-seed grass. 



Occurs sparingly along sandy banks and liillsides in Vigo county, 

 August .30. 



The first record. 



12. Cyperus speciosics Vahl. 



Recorded before only from Jefferson county. Taken in low, sandy 

 soil in Vigo county, where it is scarce. 



Varies much in size. A specimen taken at Heckland, October 14, 1896, 

 had six umbels, the stalk of each apparently springing from the surface of 

 the ground, and the whole plant but 2 J inches in height. 



13. Eleocharis capitata (L.) R. Br. Spike Rush. 



Grows along the mucky margins of the Five-Mile Pond, Vigo county. 

 Identification verified by N. L. Britton. Recorded before in "Botanical 

 Gazette," VII, 8, 1882, by E. J. Hill, from a slough south of Whiting, 

 Ind., and described by him as new under the name of E. dispar. It is a 

 plant of southern range, and, up to the time of Hill's record, it had not 

 been found north of Florida and Texas, except west of the Rocky Mount- 

 ains. It probably occurs in suitable localities throughout the western half 

 of Indiana. 



