214 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



ERAGROSTIS. 



E. capillaris (L.) Nees. — Sandy fields and roadsides; frequent in 

 Great Barrington and Sheffield. 



E. ciLiANENSis (All.) Link. — (E. megastachya Man. ed. 7; vid. 

 Rhodora, 18: 235, 1916. E. major 111. Fl. ed. 2.) 



Waste places, Pittsfield; Stockbridge. 



E. Frankii (Fisch., Mey., & Lall.) Steud. — A single plant found in 

 Sheffield. Specimen in the herbarium of Mr. Walter Deane. 



E. hypnoides (Lam.) BSP. — Shore of Pontoosuc Lake, Lanes- 

 boro (Churchill); frequent on muddy shores of Housatonic River in 

 Sheffield (Walters). 



E. MINOR Host. — Along railroad track, Washington. 



E. pectinacea (Michx.) Steud. Sandy fields; common in Sheffield, 

 frequent elsewhere in the valley. 



E. PEREGRiNA Wiegand. — Along railroad track, Lee. Determined 

 by Mr. Bayard Long. 



Distinguished from E. pilosa and E. Purshii by the absence of 

 auricular hairs on the upper sheaths, by the densely-flowered panicle, 

 bearing a great number of ovate or ovate-oblong spikelets, and by the 

 very short pedicels of the spikelets {vid. Rhodora, 19: 93, 1917, and 

 21: 133, 1919). 



E. Purshii Schrad. — {E. pilosa Man. ed. 7 in part.) 



Along paths and in waste places; occasional. Williamstown 

 (Churchill); Washington; Pittsfield; Lee; Stockbridge; Sheffield 

 (Walters). 



" E. pilosa has essentially smooth empty glumes while a scabrous 

 keel seems to be a very excellent index of E. Purshii," Bayard Long in 

 Rhodora, 21: 137 (1919). 



FESTUCA. Fescue Grass. 



F. CAPiLLATA Lam. — {¥. ovina, var. capillata Man. ed. 7; vid. 

 Rhodora, 18: 235, 1916.) 



Roadsides; occasional. Becket; New Boston. On rocky summit 

 of Monument Mt., Great Barrington; moist bank, Sheffield. 



F. ELATioR L. Meadow Fescue. — Meadows and roadsides; 

 common. 



F. nutans Spreng. — Rocky woods and moist thickets; common. 

 Not noted on the plateau. 



