Local flora notes 



Aegilops cylindrica and Kyllinga pumila in the Torrey Club 

 range. — A grass which goes by the name "Jointed Goatgrass" 

 in Hitchcock's Manual (p. 245) has appeared for several years 

 in succession in vacant land at Franklin Avenue and Mont- 

 gomery Street, Brooklyn. This annual, described as a weed in 

 wheat fields from Missouri to New Mexico, recently introduced 

 from Europe, seeds itself year after year and may therefore be 

 considered as established. 



An annual sedge, Kyllinga pumila, reported in the manuals 

 from Delaware southward, was sent to me in 1937 as a weed in 

 lawns at Hollis, Long Island. It is hoped, under the circum- 

 stances, that this southern plant will not establish itself in our 

 area. — Henry K. Svenson, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



Lythrum Salicaria L. on Long Island, N.Y, 



Mr. Raymond Torrey, in Torreya, vol. 38, no. 1., records 

 Lythrum Salicaria from Belmont State Park, L.I., with the 

 statement: "Common along the Hudson but not hitherto re- 

 corded, as far as I know, from Long Island." 



I have recorded this species from three localities on Long 

 Island prior to 1925. It was first found established in a cran- 

 berry bog at Jamesport in 1918. It was also found back of the 

 dunes near the ocean at Southampton in 1922, and in the North 

 Sea region in 1923. Mr. William C. Ferguson recorded it from 

 the vicinity of Ronkonkoma in 1926, but I do not know the lo- 

 cation of his exact station. — Roy Latham, Orient, Long Island. 



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