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doubtless the G. pauciflora of Presl., as it certainly is the G. spectabilis, var. 

 flaccida, Trin. and Bongard, from Russian America and Kamtschatka ; there- 

 fore, G. Norveyica, according to Ruprecht, Poa arundinacea, of Bieberstein (and 

 so G. arundinacea, Kunth), according to Grisebach, and G. reniota, of Fries, on 

 the same authority. But authentic Swedish and Norwegian specimens of G. 

 remota, Fries, do not well accord with the N. W. American plant, especially in 

 the glumes. 



Glyceria montana. Another appropriation of a MSS. name of Nuttall, 

 Could Nuttall complain, however, he should transpose the words of the poet 

 and say, " He that filches my good name steals trash ;" for the species is "poor 

 indeed." He who so confidently enters upon Nuttall's labors should be com- 

 petent to discern the patent fact that this Glyceria montana of Nuttall's is just 

 the same as his Poa airoides, of which the original specimen is preserved in 

 the same sheet. G. airoides would be the name, (Steudel's homonym being 

 an Erayrostis, as he himself asserts) ; but Col. Munro reduces it to G. (Atropis) 

 distans. 



Poa laxiflora the name appropriated from Nuttall, as usual whatever 

 else it may be, accords with P. leptocoma, Trin., from Sitcha. It is probably a 

 woodland form of an old species. 



Poa t e n u i f o 1 i a still another of Nuttall's unblushingly appropriated is 

 a common grass west of the Rocky Mountains, which has much puzzled bota- 

 nists, and occurs in herbaria and some published lists under several names. It 

 is Atropis Califomica, Munro, ined. (probably founded on Douglasian speci- 

 mens, coll. 1833), and exactly the plant so named from Fidalgo Island. But 

 Hartweg's No. 2035, correspondingly named (Sclerochloa Califomica) seems to 

 be rather different. Atropis is equivalent to Glyceria sect. Heleochloa, of which 

 this must be only an ambiguous member. 



Poa densiflora is P. arachnifera, var. /?. Torr., in Marcy, Rep. p. 301; a 

 form with the long wool either scanty or almost wanting, except in one old spe- 

 cimen. 



Eragrostis di f f u s a is the common E. Purshii, Bernh. 



Eragrostis curtipedicellata (ticketed brevipedicellata) is a fa- 

 miliar-looking species, not identified among the published ones the same as 

 Drummond's 327 of the second collection, and Wright's 772. 



Eragrostis sessilispica is Leptochloa riyida, Munro. It is Fendler's 926, and 

 Wright's 760 and 2091. 



Festuca gracilenta is founded on specimens quite too young and poor to 

 be meddled with. It may be either of three described species, more likely F. 

 microstachys, Nutt., which is near F. bromoides. 



Festuca reflexa another name of Nuttall's appropriated is F. microsta- 

 chys, var. divergens, Torr., probably well referred to that multiform species. 



Festuca p u s i 1 1 a boldly appropriated from Nuttall, as usual accords 

 with No. 2030 of Hartweg's collection, which Col. Munro refers to Festuca mi- 

 crostachys, except in its smoothness. 



Bromus breviaristatus. This is described from a specimen of Nuttall's, 

 named by him " Bromus parviflorus, to which Prof. Thurber had appended the 

 note " Bromus breviaristatus {Ceratochloa, Hook.)" So Mr. Buckley claps his 

 " Buckl." to the ticket, and prints his " new species," sagely adding his mark 

 of doubt to the synonym. 



Bromus virens is founded on B. virens, nitens and Californicus, of Nuttall. 

 all the same species, and all Ceratochloa grandiftora, Hook., as a note of Prof. 

 Thurber's had pointed out; but Mr. Buckley suppresses the clue. 



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