1916] Fernald & Weatherby, — Puccinellia 7 



long, thick, somewhat coriaceous, 5-nerved, minutely serrulate, 

 obtuse or tapering abruptly to a blunt apex; midnerve prolonged to 

 the apex and with the lateral nerves pubescent below: palea 3.2-3.7 

 mm. long, lanceolate, tapering to a bidentate tip, ciliate on the nerves; 

 the cilia longest below: anther 1.5-2.2 mm. long: grain 2-2.2 mm. 

 long: repent stolons coarse, rigid, often prolonged to 3-6 dm., devel- 

 oped chiefly from late summer to spring. — Fl. Ital. i. 370 (1848); 

 Watson & Coulter in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 668 (1890); Britton & Brown, 

 111. Fl. i. 214 (1896). Poa maritima Huds. Fl. Ang. 35 (1762); Eaton, 

 Man. Bot. North. States, ed. 2, 366 (1818); Bigelow, Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 

 34 (1824); Torrey, Fl. North. U. S. i. 108 (1824); Beck, Bot. U. S., 

 409 (1833); Wood, Class-book, 447 (1845). Glyceria maritima 

 Wahlenb. Fl. Gothob. 17 (1820), fide Aschers. & Graebn. Syn. Mit- 

 teleur. Fl. ii. Abt. 1, 460; Mert. & Koch in Rohling, Deutschl. Fl. 

 i. 588 (1823); Gray, Man. ed. 2, 560 (1856); Wood, Class-book, 

 ed. of 1877, 799 (1877). Sclerochloa arenaria, var. maritima Gray, 

 Man. 594 (1848). Diachroa maritima Nutt. ex Steud. Norn. ed. 2, 

 i. 497 (1840). Atropis maritima Griseb. in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 389 

 (1853). Panicularia maritima Scribn. Mem. Torr. Bot. CI. v. 54 

 (1894). — Coast of Europe; salt marshes and saline or brackish shores, 

 Nova Scotia; and southern Maine to Pennsylvania. Nova Scotia: 

 Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, August 18, 1898, -/. Macoun, herb. 

 Geol. Surv. Can. no. 21,056; saline marshes, Annapolis, June 26 and 

 27, 1883, J. Macoun, herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 29,582. Maine: 

 salt marsh, Cumberland Foreside, July 6, 1906, E. B. Chamberlain, 

 no. 825; brackish shore, Great Chebeague Island, Casco Bay, July 2, 

 1909, Fernald, no. 1,346; salt marsh, Pine Point, Scarboro, June 30, 

 1909, Fernald, nos. 1,344, 1,345; Ocean Park, Old Orchard, July 1, 

 1901, Kate Furbish; salt marsh, Wells Beach, July 14, 1894, J. C. 

 Parlin, 1898, Kate Furbish; sandy shore, Kittery, July 13, 1891, 

 Fernald, July 3, 1903, W. P. Rich. New Hampshire: Rye, June 14, 

 1903, E. F. Williams, B. L. Robinson, no. 683: marsh at Hampton 

 Beach, June 23, 1896, A. A. Eaton. Massachusetts: coast of Essex 

 County, Oakes; in sand, Plum Island, Newbury, July, 1890, Raynal 

 Dodge* June 25, 1912, A. S. Pease, no. 13,672; salt marsh back of dunes, 

 Ipswich, July 13, 1913, F. T. Hubbard, no. 642; salt marsh, West 

 Manchester/ June 20, 1913, F. T. Hubbard, no. 577; Beverly, June 15, 

 1846, ./. A. Lowell in herb. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.; Medford, June 23, 

 1879, C. E. Perkins; Somerville, June 11, 1879, C. E. Perkins, July 

 12, 1887, F. S. Collins; salt marshes along the Charles River, Cam- 

 bridge, Nuttall et al; salt marshes and sandy embankments, Revere, 

 //. A. Young ct al; salt marsh and mill pond, Charlestown, June 5, 

 1889 and June 19, 1883, C. E. Perkins; Boston, Faxon et al; Soldier's 

 Field, Brighton, June 11, 1902, A. S. Pease, no. 1,712; Dorchester, 

 June 5, 1865, G. G. Kennedy, June 12, 1887, J. R, Churchill; salt 

 marsh, North Scituate, July 3, 1899, G. G. Kennedy; near high-tide 

 mark, Arey's Pond, Orleans, August 10, 1913, J. Murdoch, jr., no. 



