906] Hitchcock, — Notes on Grasses 211 



Triodea cuprea Jacq. 1813. Eclog. Gram. 21. 



Dry or sandy fields, Ct. to Mo. and soutliw. 

 Melica striata (Michx.), comb. nov. 



Avena striata Michx. 1803. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 73. 



Rocky wooded hills, Gasjie to Pa., Minn., and westw. 

 Glyceria Torreyana (Sprenj;.), comb. nov. 



Poa Torreyana Spreng. 1821. N. Entd. 2: 104. 



Glyceria elongata (Torr.) Trin. 1836. (Jram. Suppl. 58. 



Poa elongata Torr. 1821. Spreng. N. Entd. 2: 104, as syn. under 

 P. Torreyana. 

 Glyceria pallida var. Fernaldii, var. nov. 



Culms very slender, usually geniculate and spreading, 2-4 dm. high, 

 leaves 4-8 cm. long, 2-3 nun. wide, panicles 5-7 cm. long, the fascicled 

 branches lax, flexuous; spikelets 3 5 flowered, 4-5 mm. long; glumes 

 and lemmas obtuse, usually erose at the summit. Flowering later 

 than the species. 



Wet places. Me. to Mimi. 



Type Aroostook Co., Me., Fernald 191. 

 Glyceria septentrionalis, sp. nov. 



Culms erect, 1-1.5 m. high, thick and soft; sheaths overlapjnng, 

 loose, smooth, the upper closed nearly to the summit, ligule 5-6 mm. 

 long, decurrent; blades 1.2-2.5 cm. long, 6-8 mm. wide, nearly smooth, 

 rather obtuse; panicle 2-2.5 dm. long, the subflexuous branches 

 ascending, a spikelet subsessile in each axil; spikelets 8-12-flowered, 

 1.5-2 cm. long, subsessile or on short pedicels; glumes obtuse, scarious 

 and shining; lemmas 4-4.5 mm. long, faintly 7-nerved, hispidulous, 

 with a shining scarious sianmit, erose-obtuse, slightly exceeded by 

 the tip of the palea. — lu shallow water, N. Eng. to Va. and westw. 



Type collected at Guttenbcrg, N. J. by Wm. M. Van Sickle. 



Intermediate between G. fluitans (L.) R. Br. and G. borealis (Nash) 

 Batchelder, but usually stouter and broader-leaved than either. This 

 has passed as G. fluifan.'i (L.) R. Br. but has smaller spikelets and 

 shorter lemmas, and the lemma is hispidulous instead of minutely 

 scabrous. G. fluitan.f occurs along the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Fernald) 

 and near New York City (Nash). Mr. Nash named this form Pani- 

 cularia brachyphylla, noting the difference between that and the com- 

 mon form, but it is identical with Glyceria fluitan.f of Europe. 

 Bromus latiglumis (Scribn.), comb. nov. 



B. ciliatus laiiglumi.-^ Scribn. 1900. Shear, U. S. Dep. Agric. Div. 

 Agrost. Bui. 23: 40 as syn. under the next. 



B. purgans latiglumin Shear. 1900. 1. c. 



