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what has since been transferred to Gerbera was Arnica crocea. — 

 Edward L. Greene. 



A new Panicularia. — Panicularia Holmii. A pale peren- 

 nial 25-50 cm. high, spreading by rootstocks : leaves 4-6, 

 scabrous ; the upper ligule 5—7 mm. long ; blades flat, acuminate, 

 4—12 cm. long, 4—7 mm. wide : panicle open, lax, 5—8 cm. long, 

 rays in pairs, the longest 4—5 cm. long, bearing about 20 spike- 

 lets on the outer half: spikelets 2— 3-flowered, joint of rachilla 

 0. 5 mm. long ; first empty glume hyaline, ovate, I mm. long 

 with one obscure nerve ; second, hyaline, oval, 1.3 mm. long with 

 three obscure nerves : floret scabrid, oblong, 2-2.2 mm. long, 

 floral glume broadly oval when spread, 5 -nerved, apex sub- 

 truncate, irregularly toothed ; paler while attached, extending to 

 the apex of its glume : grain elliptical, 1 mm. long, base acute, 

 apex truncate. 



Near to Panicularia pallida ; the blades wider, spikelets mostly 

 2-flowered, empty glumes shorter, floret shorter, floral glumes 5- 

 nerved instead of 7-nerved. 



Growing in a creek at a beaver-dam in dense thickets of Salix, 

 near Lamb's Ranch at Long's Peak, Colorado ; altitude, 8,600 

 feet. 



No. 249. Collected by Theo. Holm, July 8, 1899, for whom 

 it is named. — W. J. Beal. 



Naturalized or Adventive Narcissi. — Mr. C. L. Gruber 

 writes as follows from Kutztown, Pa. " I have repeatedly found 

 two species of Narcissus running wild, escaped from cultivation : 

 Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus (daffodil) and Narcissus poeticus. 

 Pseudo-Narcissus I have found at a number of places, usually on 

 warm slopes of meadows, in the vicinity of gardens ; and N. po- 

 eticus I have found in meadows, unused portions of cemeteries and 

 on one occasion in an orchard adjoining a garden." 



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