1886.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 173 
This very well marked and pretty little species, has the rha- 
chilla produced behind the palea into a short naked bristle, a 
character not noted in the original description. (It is No. 671 
Hall & Harbour.) : 
18. (581.) Cinna PeNDULA Trin. C. arundinacea L. var. 
pendula Gray ; Coulter, Man. 413.—Wooded bogs and streams, 
] 
England and from the northwest, we have found the rhachilla 
spikelets were scarcely more than 2 mm. in length, with very 
harrow acuminate-pointed empty glumes. 
