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11. P. paupercula (Holm), n. comb. Figs. 63-07. Densely cae- 

 spitose; culms slender, often geniculate, 0.2-2 dm. high: cauline 

 leaves with blades 1-4 cm. long, soft, flat, 0.5-1.5 mm. wide; hgule 

 less than 1 mm. long, acutish: panicle 1-0 cm. long; the few smooth 

 or smoothish branches ascending, in age slightly spreading: spikelets 

 3-5 mm. long, 2 5-flowered: 1st glume 1-1.5 mm. long, 1-nerved, 

 obtuse or acutish, entire; 2d 2-2.5 mm. long, 3-nerved, entire or ob- 

 scurely dentate, tapering to a blunt apex: lemmas 2-2.5 mm. long, 

 5-nerved, tapering to a blunt apex, entire, minutely pubescent at 

 base: palea about equaling the lemma, linear-lanceolate, truncate 

 or somewhat bidentate at apex, slightly scabrous on the nerves above: 

 anthers 0.5-0.7 mm. long: grain about 2 mm. long.— P. maritima, 

 var. (?) minor Watson in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 0(38 (1890), as to deserip- 

 tion and Labrador plant. Glyceric paupercula Holm in Fedde, 

 Repert. Spec. Nov. iii. 337 (1907).— Coasts of Labrador, Keewatin, 

 Newfoundland and Quebec. —Labrador: Mansfield Island, 1884, 

 R. Bell in herb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 34,782 (type of the species); 

 Hopedale, August 4-0, 1897, J. D. Somborger, no. 238 (transitional 

 to var. alaskana); dry rocks, Battle Harbor, August 0, 1911, C. S. 

 Williamson, no. 552 in herb. Phil. Acad.; on rocks by the sea, 

 Blanc Sablon, July 30, 1910, Femald & Wiegand, no. 2,618. Kee- 

 watin: Rankin Inlet, lat. 02° 45', August 30, 1910, ./. M. Maeoun, 

 herb. Geol. Surv. Can. uos. 79,1 Hi, 79,117. Newfoundland: grav- 

 elly beach, Noma Arm, August 21, 1911, Femald & Wiegand, no. 

 4,057; forming extensive turf -areas, salt marsh, Killigrew's, August 3, 



1911, Femald it- Wiegand, no. 4,050. Quebec: Salmon Bay, "Lab- 

 rador," July 28, 1882,'./. .1. Allen (type of P. maritima, var. (?) minor); 

 salt marsh* He du Petit Rigolet, Archipel de Kecarponi, Saguenay 

 County, August 10, 1915, 87. John, herb. Geol. Surv. Can.; rocky 

 beach,* Pointe au Maurier, Charnay, Saguenay County, July 10 and 

 August 24, 1915, St. John, herb. Geol. Surv. Can.; strand, Vieille 

 Romaine, Archipel Ouapitagone, Saguenay County, -Inly 13, 1915, 

 St. John, herb. Geol. Surv. Can.; salt water at mouth of Matane 

 River, Matane County, August 0, 1904, F. F. Forbes. Magdalen 

 Islands: forming turf on sandy saline shore, Basin Island, July 20, 



1912, Femald, Bartram, Long & St. John, no. 0,914. 



Var. alaskana (Scribn. & Merrill), n. comb. Figs. 08-72. Usually 

 larger throughout, occasionally stolonif erous ; culms 0.5-1.5 dm. high: 

 leaves up to 1.2 dm. long and 2 mm. broad; ligule about 2 mm. long: 

 panicle 0.2-1.8 dm. long, the lower branches ascending or spreading, 

 sometimes finally reflexed: spikelets 4.5-7 mm. long, 4-0-flowered : 

 1st glume 1.5-2* mm. long; 2d 2.5 mm. long: lemma 2.5-4 mm. 

 long: anther 0.8-1 mm. long; grain 1.7-2.1 mm. long, readily 

 separating from the palea; stolons hagelliform, resembling those of 

 P phryganodes, rarelv developed at flowering season.— /', alaskana 

 Scribn." & Merrill, Co'ntr. U. S. Nat. Herb. xiii. 78 (1910). P. mari- 

 tima, var. (?) minor, Watson in Gray Man. ed. 0, 008 (1890), as to Mt. 



