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no earlier mention of it having been found, a brief statement is 

 given below. The vine upon which they occur covers with a 

 luxuriant growth one corner of the huge rock in the garden at 

 Teachers College. The flattening is very apparent for a varying 

 distance (8 to 15 inches) from the tip of the branch. Several 

 inches below — where the branch shows the usual cylindrical 

 shape — the apparently normal base of the fasciated branch is 

 sometimes found to be but one fork of a previous but less con- 

 spicuous fasciation. In two cases the lower fasciation is two feet 

 or more from the tip of the branch. The lower part of the branch, 

 even when normal in shape, may bear three or even four leaves 

 at a node ; the middle nodes commonly bear six or eight, whorled 

 or arranged in a spiral at the nodes ; and near the tips ten or 

 more leaves may be counted at each node. The tips of the 

 branches have two or more growing points, each surrounded by 

 its own cluster of leaves ; they are apparently healthy, and two 

 have an independent growth of three inches. 



Jean Broadhurst 



A New Grass Endemic in Jamaica. — During a visit of Dr. 

 Forrest Shreve to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, West Indies, 

 he found on Sir John Peak, at an elevation of 2,000 meters, a 

 large grass growing in dense tufts, and covering rather extended 

 areas, almost to the exclusion of other vegetation. It seems 

 strange that so conspicuous a grass should remain undiscovered 

 until his visit. Its discovery is especially interesting, as it adds 

 not only a hitherto unknown species to the genus Danthonia, 

 but brings this genus into the flora of Jamaica, it being before 

 this unknown in the island. It is also the only known native 

 species of the tribe Aveneae on the island. 



The genus Daitthonia comprises something over one hundred 

 species, spread over the warm and temperate regions of both 

 hemispheres. Of this number more than one half belong to 

 southern Africa. A number are found in the Andes of South 

 America, and in North America there are ten or a dozen species. 



Following is a description of this interesting grass, which I 

 take pleasure in associating with the name of Dr. Shreve, who 

 first discovered it. The type specimen was collected by this 



