Agrostis GRAMINEAE Alopecurus 



farther inland: salt marsh, Slaughter Beach (S), Commons, 12 Aug. 

 1897 (A); edge of salt niarsh, Wachapreague (Ac), R. R. Tatnall, 

 3351, 31 May 1937 (T, P); i^ mi. s. e. of Harmony Mills (NC), 

 R. R. Tatnall, 3872, 30 June 1938 (T). 



^ A. alba L. Red Top. 



Infrequent in woods, fields and waste places. June to Aug. 



A. hyemalis (Walt.) BSP. {A. antecedens Bickn.) Hair Grass. 



Common in meadows and moist open ground of the Coastal 

 Plain; occasional in brackish soil along the coast: Pickering Beach 

 (K), Larsen, 887, 8 June 1935 (P). Late May to July. 



A. perennans (Walt.) Tuckerm. (Incl. A. Schweinitzii Trin.) 



Frequent in fields, low ground and open woods, Piedmont and 

 Coastal Plain, southward to Sussex and Talbot Counties. Mid- 

 Aug., Sept. 



A. elata (Pursh) Trin. 



Rare: peaty clearing s. of Townsend (No), Fernald, Long & 

 Fogg, 5212. Cited by Fernald in Rhodora 38, 385. 1936. 



A. canina L. 



Rare: in stony soil near Centreville (NC), Commons, July 1870 

 (A). Introd. from Europe. 



Cinna L. Wood Reed Grass. 

 C. arundinacea L. 



Common in moist woods and swamps. Piedmont and Coastal 

 Plain. Aug., mid-Sept. 



Alopecurus L. Foxtail Grass. 



A. myosuroides Huds. {A. agrestis of Gray's Man., ed. 7.) 



Rare, in waste ground: Tatnall's nurseries, Wilmington, E. 

 Tatnall, 27 June 1878 (A) ; near Jessup's Mill, Tatnall & Commons, 

 1 June 1897 (D). Nat. from Europe. 



A. pratensis L. Meadow Foxtail. 



Rare: field near Centreville (NC), Commons, 20 June 1876 (A). 

 Introd. from Eurasia. 



A. aequalis Sobol. (A. aristulatus Mx.) 



Rare: banks of Susquehanna River, Port Deposit (Ce), /. C. 

 Martindale, 5 July 1864 (A). 



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