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lower branches 0.3-1.3 dm. long, at first ascending, then divergent, 

 finally deflexed, floriferoua chiefly above the middle; pedicels sca- 

 brous or smoothiah: spikelets 4-5 mm. long, 4-6-nWered : 1st glume 

 1 mm. long, 1 -nerved, ovate, acutish to obtuse, minutely erose-cilio- 

 late; 2d 2 mm. long, broadly ovate, erose-ciliolate, 3-nerved, the lat- 

 eral nerves short and faint: lemma 2-2.5 mm. long, broadly ovate, 

 faintly 5-nerved, hyaline above, obtuse or subtruncate, with a few 

 hairs at base: palea slightly shorter, ciliate in the upper half on the 

 marginal nerves, truncate-einarginate and erose-ciliolate at apex: 

 anther 0.7-0.9 mm. long: grain 1.4 mm. long.-- Fl. Ital. i. 367 (1S4S); 

 Watson k Coulter in Gray, Man. ed. (>, 668 ( L890); Britton & Brown,' 

 111. Fl. i. 214 (1896). Poa distans L. Mant. i. 32 (17(17). Glyceria 

 distant Wahlenb. Fl. Ups. 36 (1820); Gray, Man. ed. 2, 560 (1856), 

 as to description. Festuca distans Kunth, Gram. i. 129 (1829). 

 Sclerochloa diatom Bab. Man. Brit. Bot, 370 (1843). Atropis distans 

 Griseb. in Ledeb. FL Ross. iv. 388 (1853); Beal, Grasses Am. ii. 572 

 (1896). Panicuiaria distorts Scribner, Mem. Ton*. Bot. CI. v. 54 

 (1894). — Eurasia and northern Africa; adventive and rapidly becom- 

 ing naturalized in North America; less pronouncedly halophytic than 

 most species. QUEBEC: damp magnesian gravel and mud about the 

 asbestos quarries, Black Lake, Megantic County, August 26, 1915, 

 Fernald & Jackson, no. 12,022. New Brunswick: waste ground, 

 Pointe du Chene, July 12, 1912, Bartram ( v Long, no. 6,919; St. 

 John, August, 1S77, ./. Fowler in herb. Phil. Acad.; salt marshes, 

 Carleton, September, 1877, Fowler. Nova Scotia: damp roadside, 

 Sydney, (ape Breton Island, August 17, 1902, Fernald; ballast- 

 heaps, Pictou, July 24, 1883, ./. Maeoun, herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 

 29,508; brackish soil, Windsor, August 22, 1902, Fernald. Maine: 

 wharves and roadsides, Rockland, August 22, 1909, Fernald, no. 

 1,343. MASSACHUSETTS: Oak Island, Revere (only 1 bunch), June 

 15, 1908, G. G. Kennedy; Charlestown, June 5, 1880 and June, 1883, 

 C. K. Perkins; Boston, June 28, 1879, Faxon; waste wet ground, 

 South Boston, June 18, 1900, II'. P. Rich; roadsides, North Adams, 

 June 23 and 25, 1913, Fernald & Long, no. 8,798. CONNECTICUT: 

 borders of marshes, Orange, July 25, 1894 and June 20, 1899, V. II. 

 BisseU; meadow on coast, in rather dry soil, Bridgeport, June 14, 

 1912, E. II. Fames, no. 8,528. New York: on refuse from chemical 

 works, flats along Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, July 13, 1915, BisseU, 

 Ware <.{• Weatherby. New Jersey: wet soil near edge of marsh, 

 Cape May, May 27 and June 10, 1911, 0. II. Brown in herb. Phil. 

 Acad. Pennsylvania: Navy Yard, Philadelphia, June 1, 1805, 

 C. E. Smith in herb. Phil. Acad. Delaware: waste places, Wilming- 

 ton, June 4, 1897, A. Commons in herb. Phil. Acad. Nevada: mead- 

 ow near Sparks, Washoe County, June 28, 1907, A. A. Heller, no. 

 8,655 (distributed as P. Lemmoni); Glendale, Washoe Countv, 

 June 28, 1907, P. B. Kennedy, no. 1,577. 



Var. tenuis (Uechtritz), n. comb. Leaves of the culm 2 mm. wide 



