1918} Wiegand,— Some Species and Varieties of Elymus 85 
lemmatibus (2.2-)3—4.5 em. longis subtiliter et tenuiter hispidulosis, 
aristis magnis rectis, palea 7.5-8 mm. longa, caryopsibus 5-6 mm. 
longis. 
Plant tall: leaves 7-25 mm. broad, thin, green or slightly glaucous, 
glabrous; sheaths close, smooth: spikes much exserted, slightly 
nodding, 7-20 cm. long, exclusive of the awns: spikelets 24-flowered, 
somewhat spreading; joints of the rachis 3-4.5 rarely 5-8 mm. long: 
glumes very slender (0.4-0.8 mm. wide, 1.8-3 em. long), terete, and 
indurated toward the nonstriate, yellowish, straight base; lemmas 
(2.2-)3-4.5 em. long, minutely and sparsely hispidulous; awns long 
and straight: palet 7.5-8 mm. long: grain 5-6 mm. long.— Along 
stream-margins and in alluvial bottomlands: central Maine, through 
New Hampshire and Vermont to western Massachusetts, northern 
Connecticut, westward to western New York, and southward to the 
mountains of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. The Rhode 
Island and the Delaware specimens listed below seem out of the 
normal range. Marne: Franklin County: river-bank, Farmington, 
C. H. Knowlton. Kennebec County: alluvial river-thickets, Sidney, 
August 18, 1916, Fernald & Long, no. 12747; dry open clay river- 
terraces, Sidney, August 18, 1916, Fernald & Long, no. 12746. Oxford 
County: Buckfield, 1895, J. C. Parlin. ` New HAMPSHIRE: Carroll 
County: banks of Saco River, North Conway, August 30, 1855, 
Wm. Boott. Grafton County: railroad yards, Woodsville, August 8, 
1908, Æ. F. Williams. Cheshire County: alluvial thickets, Alstead, 
August 2, 1900, Fernald, no. 373. Vermont: Orleans County; 
Willoughby Garden, Willoughby, August 1, 1894, E. F. Walliams; 
North Slide, Willoughby Mountain, August 15, 1896, E. & C. E. 
Faxon. Caledonia County: St. Johnsbury Center, August 17, 1874, 
J. W. Congdon. Addison County: White River Valley, Hancock, 
July 18, 1908, E£. F. Williams. Windham County: shore of West 
River, Townsend, August 26, 1911, August 7, 1913, L. A. Wheeler, 
no. 15; riverbanks, Brattleboro, August 2, 1898, B. L. Robinson, no. | 
85. Massacuuserts: Essex County: Merrimac River banks near 
the “ Deer leap,” Andover, September 19, 1903, A. S. Pease. Frank- 
lin County: banks of North River, Griswoldville, Coleraine, August 4, 
1909, E. F. Williams; wet roadside, Conway, August 6, 1909, E. F. 
= Williams. Hampshire County: Huntington, August 17, 1912, B. L. 
Robinson, no. 755. Hampden County: Westfield, August 12, 1901, 
iw & Day, no. 55. Berkshire County: Williamstown, July 28, 1898, 
-= J. R. Churchill; Stockbridge, August 23, 1902, R. Hoffmann; Pitts- 
field, September 23, 1899, R. Hoffmann. Rove Istanp: Providence 
County: border of Pawtuxet River, Cranston, August 4, 1911, Thos. 
Hope. Connecticut: Hartford County: East Granby, August 4, 
1901, A. W. Driggs; river-banks, Southington, August 17, 1895, C. H. 
= Bissell, no. 753. Litchfield County: alluvium of the Housatonic, 
= Canaan, September 6, 1909, Fernald. New York: St. Lawrence 
' County; roadside, Pitcairn, August 1, 1914, 0. P: Phelps, no. 132. 
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