qW 5e Ge elata (Nash) Hitche. —sulms soft and succulent, especially below, 
single or few together, erect from a more or less decumbent base, as much as 
» 150 cm. tall; sheaths retrorsely scabrous, occasionally nearly smooth; ligules 
broad, truncate, 5-4 mm. long; blades thin and lax, scaberulous on both sur- 
faces, 10-40 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide; panicles nodding or drooping, 10-25 
cme long, the branches slender, flexuous, spreading or often reflexed, the lower 
as much as 15 cme long; glumes ovate, l-nerved, the first about 1 mm. long, the 
second 1-2 mm. long; lemmas 265 mn. long. 
Wet meadows, springs, and moist aoods. 
6. Ge grandis S. iiats. Culms rather stout, succulent, as much as 150 om. tall; 
sheaths smooth; ligules broad, truncate 1-2 mn. long; blades smooth, as much as 
60 cme, usually 20-350 cm., long, 4-10 mm. wide; panicles pyramidal, 25-30 cm. 
long; glumes ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, acute, about equal, 2 mme long, or the 
second a little longer, “hitish, contrasting with the usually purple tinged 
‘ lemmas; lemmas obtuse; the lower 2.5 mm. long. 
Wet meadows, marshes, and along streams. 
DOU Senay 3 Alone, feeb —40%; Wallace, Kelloge 10103, 
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