•38 Joint Bulletin 8 



grass {Alopecurus pratensis L.), which was found growing abundantly 

 in a meadow near the highway. Unfortunately the meadow was mowed 

 in a day or two, so additional specimens were not obtained. Another 

 grass, tall oat grass iArrhenatherum elatius), was collected a few 

 days later, and the next week at the field meeting of the Hartland 

 Nature Club, held in Dr. Dana's grounds, Miss Rogers discovered a 

 few plants of the dogs-tail grass (Cynosurus cristatus L.), which so 

 far as we can learn is a new plant for the state. Later in the season 

 I found a few more plants growing along the road, a mile or more 

 from the Dana place. The rock muhlenbergia (Muhlenhergia sobo- 

 lifera) was collected on the Billings estate late in August. 



About the same time the roughish meadow grass (Poa trivialis) 

 was collected on the roadside near West Woodstock, and Panicum 

 tennesseense was found on a dry hillside in a pasture. Of this latter. 

 Dr. Hitchcock, who determined the grasses for me, wrote, "Unusually 

 lax in habit." Panicum philadelphicum was again found, this time 

 as a weed in ground that had been formerly used as a garden. Odd 

 forms of the green fox-tail and the witch grass were also collected. 

 Many sedges, new to the Billings herbarium, were collected, but only a 

 few were of more than local interest. The wood bulrush (Scirpus 

 sylvaticus) was collected during the season of 1920, but was not de- 

 termined until last January. Carex stricta var. angustata was found 

 in some abundance in a swampy meadow. Carex pennsylvanica var. 

 lucorum was found on a very dry hillside, growing with the common 

 reindeer moss (Cladonia) but, unfortunately, it was considerably 

 infested with a rust. An interesting juncus was at first thought to be 

 J. secundus, but a student of that group pronounces it "apparently a 

 form of J. tenuis.'' A colony of Salix purpurea, the purple or basket 

 willow, firmly established alongside the road on one of the hills of this 

 locality, was of much local interest. Inquiry among old settlers in 

 that region failed to elicit any information regarding any cultivation 

 or use of the willow in former times. The strawberry blite (Cheno- 

 podium capitatum) has occurred as a weed on the Blood farm for 

 several years, but no special attention was paid to it until last year, 

 when specimens were sent to Mrs. A. B. Morgan, and through her 

 courtesy I met Mrs. Blood and obtained specimens for the Billings 

 herbarium. 



The nettle-leaved goose-foot (Chenopodium murale) appeared with 

 other goose-foots and amaranths in a garden patch in which potatoes 



