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and veins, the sheaths smooth. Ligule - with long silky fringes. 

 Spikelets racemose-paniculate, about ten. Glumes 4r|"-5" long, 

 acute, concave, smooth, 3-nerved, with broad white margins, equal. 

 Florets with a tuft of silky hairs at base ; lower palet ovate, bifid, 

 the teeth very slender (1-|" long), clothed with silky hairs in seven 

 lines, and on the margins below (membranaceous and naked above 

 on the margin), awn about twice as long as the palet, flat and 

 twisted below but scarcely colored ; inner palet membranaceous, 

 nerveless, ciliate." Austin MSS. 



' Woods. Danube, Herkimer county, July, 1868. C. F. Austin. 

 Rare. 



Compared with Danthonia spicata, this species diners in its 

 longer leaves, — the upper ones overtopping the panicle,— its looser 

 panicle and more numerous spikelets, the longer teeth of the lower 

 palet and the tuft of hairs at the base of the florets. 



CHARACEiE. 

 ISTlTELLA FLEXILIS, Ag. 



Ponds and slow flowing streams. Sandlake and North Elba. 



EYlELLA MUCBONATA Vai\ FLABELLATA, Kutz. 



Lower Saranac Lake. 



NlTELLA ACUMINATA Var. GLOMEEULIFEEA, A. BrOAJm. 



Lower Saranac Lake. Rare. 



Chaea coeonata, Ziz. 



This species, with its semi-transparent stems and branches, desti- 

 tute of cortical incrustation, might at first sight be mistaken for a 

 Nitella. It grows in shallow water in Saranac lake, intermingled 

 with the two preceding species. 



Chaea feagilis, Desv. 



Mud Lake, Herkimer county. A small form with long bracts ; 

 sometimes cinerescent. 



Chaea fcetida, A. Braun. 



(C. vulgaris of authors, in part.) Common, especially in lime- 

 stone regions. Our specimens are from Albany, Schenectady and 

 Herkimer counties. 



Chaea conteaeia, A. Br aim. 



Cedar Lake, Litchfield, Herkimer county. Much of the bottom of 

 the lake is covered with this and the two preceding species, the 

 plants ranging from a few inches to two or three feet in length. In 

 no other part of the State have I seen the Charse so abundant as in 

 the southern towns of Herkimer county. 



