616 CLXI. GRAMINEtE. Uniola. 



spikekts terete, linear, purplish, about 5-flowered; /s. obtuse, indistinctly 5- 

 veined. — % Salt marshes, Ms., Bigeloia. June. 



18. P. AauATicA. /?. Ajnericana. Torr. (P. aquatica. PA.) 



Smooth ; st. stout, leafy, 4 — 5f high ; lis. broad-linear, flat, thin ; panicle 

 erect, diffuse, branches at length spreading, flexuous, 3 — 5 together, in half 

 whorls ; spikeLets linear, purple, with 6 — 8 ovate-obtuse flowers. — % Wet mea- 

 dows, Free States and Can. A very large, handsome poa. Aug. 



19. P. DENTATA. Torr. 



Smooth ; St. erect, round, 3f high ; /r5. flat, linear, 10 — 16' long, glaucous 

 beneath ; slip, elongated ; panicle large, loose, few-flowered, branches capillary, 

 spreading; s^fA'efefo lanceolate, about 5-flowered; lower glume 3-veined; lov:er 

 palea 5-veined, 5-toothed at the apex when old. — '2|. Swainps, Mass., N. H. ! to 

 Penn. Not very common. June, July. 



20. P. FAscicuLATA. Torr. 



Very smooth ; st. firm and leafy, oblique, round, branched at base, 1 — 2f 

 high ; Ivs. flat, lance-linear ; panicle spreading, bi'anches fasciculate, crowded, 

 straight ; spikekts oblong, somewhat racemed, sessile, crowded, about 3-flow- 

 ered; glumes minute, unequal. — % Salt marshes, N. Y. 



21. P. PECTiNACEA. Michx. (P. pilosa. MuM: P. tenella. Ph.) 



St. csEspitoi5e, oblique, geniculate at base, 8 — 12' high ; Ivs. flat, smooth, 

 pilose at base, 5-veined, 2 — 4' long ; sheaths bearded at the throat ; panicle large, 

 loose, capillary, purplish, hairy in the axils, branches subverticillate ; sjnkelets 

 linear, with 5—9 acute flowers ; vpper palea persistent on the rachis which thus 

 is made finally to appear pectinate. — In sandy fields, Mid. and S. States. 

 July, Aug. 



22. P. REPTANS. 



(j'* 9; ^'- branched, creeping, rooting at the joints, 6 — 12' long; Ivs. subu- 

 late, flat, 2 — 3' long; sheaths open, pilose on the margin and throat; panicle 

 1 — 2' long, branches short, simple, in fascicles, few-flowered; spikelets lineai'- 

 lanceolate, with 12 — 20 acuminate flowers. — (T) Swamps, N. Y. to Ky. ! JL, Aug. 



23. P. Eragrostis. CP. obtusa. Nutt. Briza eragrostis. Mnhl.) 



St. oblique or decumoent, geniculate, 1 — 2f long; Ivs. lanceolate, attenu- 

 ate at end, scabrous on the margin and above ; sheaths pilose at the throat ; slip. 

 short, bearded ; panicle expanding, branches subdivided, flexuous, subpilose in 

 the axils ; spikekts ovate-oblong, 12 — 20-flowered ; glumes nearly equal. — ® A 

 beautiful grass, introduced into fields and roadsides, N. Eng. to 111. ! It has a 

 strong, peculiar odor. Aug. § 



42. BRIZA. 



Gr. Ppt^u, to nod, or hang down ; alluding to the pendulous spikelets. 



Spikelets cordate-ovate. 6 — 9-flowered ; glumes 2, shorter than the 

 lower flowers ; palese veutricose, lower one cordate at base, embracing 

 the upper which is suborbicular and much shorter ; caryopsis beaked. 



B. MEDIA. 



(S/. naked above, 1 — ^2f high; Ivs. flat, smooth, lance-linear; slip, short, 

 obtuse ; panicle erect, few-flowered, branches wide-spreading, capillary, pur- 

 plish, bearing the ovate or cordate, tumid, pendant and tremulous spikelets at 

 the ends, these are about 7-flowered, greenish-purple; pakce veinless. — 7|.Natu- 

 ralized in the vicinity of Boston, Bigelow. May. 



43. UNIOLA. 



Lat. uniix, one ; on account of the aggregation of many flowers into one spikelet. 



Spikelets compressed, 3 — 20-flowered ; lower flower abortive ; 

 glumes 2, shorter than the lower flower ; lower paleas boat-shaped at 

 the end, truncate and mucronate between the lobes, upper subulate, 

 somewhat bifid; scales emarginate ; caryopsis with 2 horns. 



1. Cr. LATiFOLiA. Miclix. Broad-leaved Uniola. 



St. 2 — If high, .smooth, subsimple; Ivs. 8—18' by 6 — 12", lance-linear, 



