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POACE/E.' 



Savastaua odorata (L.) Scribu. Mem. Torr. Club, v, 34 (1894); ilokii.s odoratns 

 L. Sp. PI. ii, 108 (1753) ; Hierochloa horealis Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii, 513 (1817). Type 

 specimeus from Europe. 



Khantaak Island, Juue 20 (No. 36) ; found along the edges of bluffs about 6 meters 

 above sea level. 



Plileum alpinum L. Sp. PI. i, 59 (1753). Type specimens from luirope. 



On dry sand bars along streams, from sea level to 60 meters elevation. Abundant 

 at Daltou Landing, August 16 (No. 119); a few scattering specimens on Khantaak 

 Island. 



Agrostis exarata Triu. Diss, i, 207 (1824). Type locality, Unalaska. 



Growing in scattered clumps on dry sand bars along small rivers which empty into 

 the sea. Disenchantment Bay, August 17 (No. 118) ; from sea level to 60 meters 

 elevation. 



Calamagrostis langsdorffii (Link.) Trin. Gr. Unifl. 225 (1824); Arundo lanr/sdorffii 

 Link, Enum. i, 74 (1821). Type locality, Siberia. 



Ankow River, August 28 (No. 1.36) ; found generally along the beach near the edge 

 of the forest, and on bluifs near the rivers. 



Deschamp.sia cas-spitosa (L.) Beauv. Agrost. 91 (1812); .lira vivspitosa L., Sp. PI. 

 i, 64 (1753). Type specimen from Europe. 



Yakutat Bay, August 27 (No. 133); found everywhere in the vicinity of Yakutat 

 Bay, often in great abundance. It occujiies all the open, but not swampy, spaces in 

 the forests, and is found in abundance on the bluffs near the seashore and on the 

 southern slope of Mount Tcbenkof, to an altitude of 525 meters. 



De-schampsia caespitosa longiflora (Trin.) Yasey, Deser. Cat. Gr. 29 (1883); Aira 

 ca'spitosa Jowjiflora Trin ; Thurb. Bot. Wilkes Exped. xvii, 487 (1873-74). Type local- 

 ity, "Niscjually and the north branch of the Columbia." 



Disenchantment Bay, August 12 (No. Ill) ; found in large quantities on the slo})es 

 of mountains, at from 250 to 775 meters altitude, between the upper limit of red 

 alder and the lower limit of summer snow, where it gives the mountains their light- 

 green color. Some tracts of hundreds of acres of mountain slope are covered with 

 it, to the exclusion of all other vegetation. It is not found in the forest coiintry. 



Poa alpina L. Sp. PL i, 67 (1753). Type specimen from Europe. 



Dalton Ijanding, August 15 (No. 127) ; growing abundantly in small clusters on 

 dry sand bars near Dalton Creek; also found near Cape Manby. 



Poa glumaris Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. ser. 6, i, 379 (1831). Type locality, 

 Arctic Siberia. 



Khantaak Island, Augnst 29 (No. 137); common ou gravelly beaches out of reach 

 of high tides. 



Puccinellia maritima (Huds.) Pari. Fl. Ital. i, 370 (1848); Poa marilhiia Huds. El. 

 Angl. 42 (1762). 



On the mainland near the Mission, at sea level; also on the beach at the base of 

 Mount Tebenkof, June21 (No. 31) ; found only near the beach, where itgrows in dense 

 olumps; not common. 



Elynius arenariu.s Ij. Sp. PI. i, 83 (1753). Typo specimen from Europe. 



Near the Mission, August 29 (No. 140); abundant along sandy beaches, liut found 

 only near the sea. The thick culms play an important part in the basket making of 

 the Tlilinket Indians. When green they are cut, stripi)ed of leaves, and dried near a 

 tire. They are then used to form the ui)rights or framework around which are woven 

 split spruce roots. 



' Determined by the late Dr. George Vasey. 



