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POACEG:.' 
Savastana odorata (L.) Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club, v, 84 (1894); //olcus odoratus 
L. Sp. Pl. ii, 108 (1753); Hierochloa borealis Room. & Schult. Syst. ii, 515 (1817). Type 
specimens from Europe. 
Khantaak Island, June 20 (No. 36); found along the edges of bluffs about 6 meters 
above sea level. 
Phleum alpinum L. Sp. Pl. i, 59 (1753). Type specimens from Europe. 
On dry sand bars along streams, from sea level to 60 meters elevation, Abundant 
at Dalton Landing, August 16 (No. 119); a few scattering specimens on Khantaak 
Island. 
Agrostis exarata Trin. Diss. i, 207 (1824). Type locality, Unalaska. 
Growing in scattered clumps on dry sand bars along small rivers which empty into 
the sea. Disenchantment Bay, August 17 (No. 118); from sea level to 60 meters 
elevation.. 
Calamagrostis langsdorffii (Link.) Trin. Gr. Unill. 225 (1824); Arundo langsdor fii 
Link, Enum. i, 74 (1821), Type locality, Siberia. 
Ankow River, August 28 (No. 136); found generally along the beach near the edge 
of the forest, and on bluffs near the rivers. 
Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) Beauv. Agrost. 91 (1812); lira cespitosa L., Sp, PI. 
i, 64 (1753). Type specimen from Europe. 
Yakutat Bay, August 27 (No. 183); found everywhere in the vicinity of Yakutat 
Bay, often in great abundance. It occupies all the open, but not swampy, spaces in 
the forests, and is found in abundance on the bluffs near the seashore and on the 
rox 
southern slope of Mount Tebenkof, to an altitude of 525 meters, 
Deschampsia czspitosa longiflora (Trin.) Vasey, Deser. Cat. Gr. 29 ae Aira 
cespitosa longiflora Trin; ‘Thurb. Bot, Wilkes Exped, xvii, 487 (1878-74). Type local- 
ity, “Nisqually and the north branch of the Columbia.” 
Disenchantment Bay, August 12 (No. 111); found in large quantities on the slopes 
of mountains, at from 250 to 775 meters altitude, bettveen the upper limit of red 
alder and the lower limit of summer snow, where it gives the mountains their light- 
green color. Some tracts of hundreds of acres of mountain slope are covered with 
it, to the exclusion of all other vegetation. It is not found in the forest country. 
Poa alpina L. Sp. Pl. i, 67 (1753). Type specimen from Europe. 
Dalton Landing, August 15 (No. 127); growing abundantly in small clusters on 
dry sand bars near Dalton Creek; also found near © “pe Manby. 
Poa glumaris Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. ser. , 879 (1831). Type locality, 
Arctic Siberia. 
Khantaak Island, August 29 (No. 137); common on gravelly beaches out of reach 
of high tides. 
Puccinellia maritima (Huds.) Parl. F1. Ital. i, 370 (1848); Poa maritima Huds. FI. 
Angl, 42 (1762). 
On the mainland near the Mission, at sea level; also on the beach at the base of 
Mount Tebenkof, June 21(No.31); found only near the beach, where it grows in dense 
clumps; not common. 
Elymus arenarius L. Sp. Pl. i, 83 (1753). Type specimen from Europe. 
Near the Mission, August 29 (No. 140); abundant along sandy beaches, but found 
only near the sea. The thick culins play an important part in the basket making of 
the Thlinket Indians. When green they are cut, stripped of leaves, and dried near a 
fire. They are then used to form the uprights or framework around which are woven 
split spruce roots. 
1 Determined by the late Dr. George Vasey. 
