1() Rhodora [January 



F. Borreri Bab. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 565 (1837). Glycerin Borreri 



Bab. in Engl. Bot. Suppl. iii. t. 2797 (1837). G diatom Gray, Man. ed. 

 2, 500 (1856), as to synonym PoafascictdaiaToTT., not as to description; 

 Wood, Class-book, ed. of 1877, 799 (1877), at least in part. Seieroch- 

 loa Borreri Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. 370 (1843). S. armaria, var. fasci- 

 eulata Gray, Man. 594 (1848). Atropis Borreri Ricbter, PL Eur. i. 

 92 (1890).— Coasts of Europe- Massachusetts to Delaware, indige- 

 nous, and sometimes advent ive from Europe; Utah. Massachu- 

 setts: salt marshes, Massachusetts, C. Pickering in herb. Phil. Acad.; 

 Plum Island, Newbury, Oakes; beach, Brant Point, Nantucket, 

 June 22, 1909, A". /'. Flynn in herb. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. Rhode 

 Island: salt marsh, East Providence, May 30, 1911, K, M. Wiegand, 

 no. 931; Wiekford, June 17, 1908, Q. G. Kennedy, E. F. William*. 

 Connecticut: sandy place by salt marsh, West Haven, June 23, 

 1912, A. E. Blewitt, no. 339; edge of salt marsh, Woodmont, June 13, 

 1908, Eames it- Godfrey, no. 5,922; salt marsh coated with sand, 

 Orange, June 23, 1912, C. II. Bluett; moist sand bordering salt 

 marsh, Stratford, June 12, 1908, E. II. Eames, no. 5,915, July (», 1912, 

 .1. E. Blewitt, no. 355; sandy shores of Cedar Creek, Bridgeport, 

 June 29, 1899, blames; sandy border of salt meadows, within tidal 

 influence, Westport, June 19, 1901, Eamet, no. 160. New Yokk: 

 salt marshes in vicinity of New York, Torrey (type of the species); 

 New Pots, Long Island", June 11, 1SS7, A'. I. Brifion. New Jkhsky: 

 coast, NvttaU; coast, August, 1833, A. Gray; Hoboken, Thurber; 

 Somer's Point, June, 1865, C. E. Smith in herb. Phil. Acad.; salt 

 marsh, Cape May, May-July, .1. //. Smith et al. in herb. Phil. Acad.; 

 Swedeshoro, June 2, 1895, C. D. Lippencoti in herb. Phil. Acad.; 

 Kaign's Point, I). Burke in herb. Phil. Acad. Pennsylvania: Phila- 

 delphia (various stations), Leidy et al. in herb. Phil. Acad. DELA- 

 WARE: const, Xuttall in herb. Phil. Acad.; Cape Henlopen, .1. //. 

 Smith in herb. Phil. Acad.; salt marshes, Woodland Beach, June 30, 

 1S9S, J. Commons in herb. Phil. Acad. Utah: Hot Springs, June 1!), 

 L908, Mrs. Joseph Clemens (distributed as Agrostis stolonifera). 



Though occasionally found on ballast and there presumably a recent 

 introduction from Europe, P. fascieulata is clearly indigenous upon our 

 coast as well as in Europe. Its status in Utah is yet to be determined, 

 but there it is probably a recent introduction. 



4. P. rupestris (With.), n. comb. Pigs. 17-22. Resembling 

 P. fascieulata; the decumbent culms 1-4.2 dm. high: leaves 2.5-6 mm. 

 wide, flat: panicle ellipsoid, glaucous, 2-7 cm. long; the branches stiff 

 and approximate, 1-2.5 cm. long, closely flowered nearly to base, 

 distichous, scabrous: spikelets 5-8 nun. long, 3-5-flowered : 1st glume 

 1.5-2 mm. long, ovate, acutish, 3-nerved; the midnerve scabrous: 

 2d glume 2-2.5 mm. long, oval, obtuse, 3-nerved, hyaline and erose- 

 serrulate above: lemma 3-3.5 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, thick and firm 

 except at the narrow hyaline summit, essentially entire or minutely 



