HITCHCOCK — PLANTS OF AMES, IOWA. 529 



Eragrostis hypnoides, (Lam.) B. S. P. Cat.— Poa hypnoides, 

 Lam. 111. i. — E. reftans^ Nees, in Mart. Fl. Bras. i. 1829. 



Banks of streams ; common. 

 E. MAJOR, Host, Gram. iv. 1809.— Poa Eragrostis, L. Spec. 



Fields and roadsides ; common. 

 E. Frankii, ]\Ieyer, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. ? 



River banks; scarce. 

 E. PuRSHii, Schrad. in Linnsea, xii. 1838. 



River banks and roadsides ; common. 



E. pectinacea, (Miclix.) Gray, Mau. ed. of 1857 (or earlier?). — Poa 

 pectinacea, Michx. Fl. 



" Ames-Besse)'." A young, unnamed specimen; but evidenlly it belongs here. 



DiARRHENA DIANDRA, (Michx. ). — Pcs^Mca dlandrci, Michx. Fl. 

 — D. Americana, Beauv. Agrost. 1812. 

 Woods; frequent. 



Dactylis glomerata, L. Spec. 



Pastures ; freely escaped from cultivation. 

 POA COMPRESSA, L. SpeC. 



Wet or dry soil; common. 



P. SEROTINA, Ehr. Gaud. Agrost. i. 1811 (ex Kuutli, Enum. i.) 



Wet places; frequent. 



P. PRATENSis, L. Spec. 



Pastures and meadows; common. 



Glyceria nervata, (Willd.) Trin. Act. Petrop. S. 6, i. 1831?.— Poa 

 ?iervata, Willd. Spec. i. 

 Wet places; abundant. 



G. FLUITANS, (L.) R. Br. Prod. i. 1810,— Pesiwca fluitans, L. Spec. 

 Ponds and sloughs ; infrequent. 



Festqca octoflora, Walt. FJ. — F. tenella, Willd. Enum. i. 

 Dry hills : frequent. 



F. NUTANS, Willd. Enum. i. 



Upland woods ; abundant. 

 F. Shortii, Kunth,(?) Vasey, Deser. Cat. 1885. 

 Sloughs; rare. 



A small quantity found about 3 miles east of Ames. It seems quite distinct from 

 F. nutans. The spikelets are more numerous, the panicle more or less drooping, 

 but the branches not reflexed in fruit as in the case of F. nutans. This appears in 

 Wood's Class-Book, edition of 1S61, p. 794, as F. Shortii, Kunth, and is placed un- 

 der F'. nutans, 



Bromus Kalmii, Gray, Man. 1st ed. 



Dry ground; infrequent. 

 B. secalinus, L. Spec. 



Waste places; scarce. * 



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