UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



TAXONOMIC AND RANGE INVESTIGATIONS. 



Washington, D. 0. , February 15, 1912. 



Mr. Walter Dearie, 



29 Brewster St. , 



Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Dear Sir: — 



Your letter of February 12 and package have been received. 

 We are returning the eight mounted sheets and unmounted Festuca . 



The Peterboro, I. H. Panicum is P. commutatum Schult. as 

 you have named it. This is the large typical form, that is the 

 form represented by the type in Elliott's herbarium. The H, H. 

 Oalamagrostis is G. inexpansa Gray. Like all the species of this 

 genus this is exceedingly variable. Your New Hampshire plant has 

 * a less densely flowered anicle than any specimen we have, but 

 the spikelet characters are those of G. inexpansa though the 

 glumes are slightly shorter than in most of the specimens, only 

 equaling the lemma instead of being a little longer. I have 

 looked in the herbarium and find that this is our first record 

 for New England. 



Professor Hitchcock agrees that the query may be erased 

 from the specimens markedfp. lucidum? The other two are probably 

 P. barbulatum. They might possibly be P. dichotomum, but are 

 not P. lucidum. 



Professor Hitchcock's remarks on your Festuca I enclose 

 with the plant* 



