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greater narrowness and more pointed apex, besides duller color, 

 was unmistakably different from that of S. robustus. 



The purpose of this paper, however, is not to announce a mere 

 want of exact accord in the results of two independent studies of 

 the plants in question but rather to bring out the existence of 

 still another New England bulrush of the 5. robustus group cer- 

 tainly very distinct from any other at present recognized. This 

 plant was collected by me in mature fruit August 20, 1898, on 

 the shore of Somes Sound, Mt. Desert, Maine, growing in com- 

 pany with 6". paludosas. This plant may appropriately bear the 

 name of Mr. Fernald, through whose critical industry the old 

 genus Scirpus in New England has become scarcely recognizable 

 in its lineaments of to-day. 



Scirpus Fernaldi sp. now Rather pale green, from 4-8 dm. 

 high, the slender culms sharply three-angled and striate : stem- 

 leaves long and narrow, the longer ones equalling or surpassing 

 the inflorescence, 2—6 mm. wide, slenderly attenuate : primary 

 involucral leaf erect, mostly 1 5-20 cm. long : spikes rather pale, 

 short-ovate or finally broadly ovate, mostly 10—15 mm. long, 

 1-3 in a sessile or stipitate cluster and 1-5 solitary, on slender 

 stiffy fiexuous or crinkled, wiry, diverging peduncles 2—7 cm. 

 long : scales finely close-puberulent, the lower ones often rather 

 widely ascending, membranous, acuminate, entire or bifid or be- 

 coming lacerate, the midvein excurrent in a slender fiexuous or 

 recurved awn 3-12 mm. long: achene rather yellowish-brown 

 and shining, broadly truncated, obovoid-cuneate, 2.5—3 mm - long, 

 and broad, usually slightly longer than broad, almost equally 

 trigonous or slightly depressed trigonous, the angles rounded or 

 the dorsal swelling more or less umbonate, short-mucronulate 

 and sometimes slightly refuse, the slender style several times the 

 length of the achene, bearing three slender stigmas ; bristles 

 shorter than or subequal with the achene. 



Type in herbarium of the Xew York Botanical Garden. 



The pale, short-ovoid spikes, some of them on slender, elon- 

 gated peduncles, and bluntly trigonous achenes, mark this plant 

 off distinctly from all of its near allies. 



A WEEPING CRATAEGUS 



By John K. Small 

 Several years ago Mr. A. H. Curtiss sent me specimens of a 

 verv slender Crataegus which he had collected near Crestview in 



