my attention was attracted to a single dense 
tuft of fine grass, with numerous, slender, 
fruiting spikelets, which was conspicuous in 
comparison with the coarser grasses which 
surrounded it.—The genus was readily de- 
termined to be Festuca, but the species was 
clearly different frcem any with which I was 
familiar, nor was I able to identify it subse- 
quently, so it was submitted to Mr. Geo, V. 
Nash, of the New York Botanical Garden, to 
whom I am indebted for its’ identification. 
It is a European species, recently intro- 
duced, which is becoming naturalized in the 
Eastern United States. It had apparently 
not been reported at the time Britton & 
Brown’s Illustrated Flora was first prepared 
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for publication, as it is not included except in 
the Appendix to that work. 
Its’ discovery here adds another species to 
our local flora. 
MINOR NOTES, 
Mr, Samuel M. Dix presented a portion of 
a pegmatite granite bowlder, found at Staple- 
ton, similar to the granite outcrop at Tomp- 
kinsville, bunt not common as drift material on 
the Island. 
Dr. Hollick presented a specimen of 
limonite, from the old Todt Hill mines, 
representing a sample of a quantity recently 
collected for the New York State mineral 
exhibit at the Pan- American Exposition, 
