120 Rhodora [July 



\iii. 211 (1906). Guilford (W. R. Dudley; specimen in Herb. Yale 

 University), East Hartford (Weatherby). 



PucciNELLiA FASCicuLATA (ToFF.) Bickn. P. Borred (Bab.) Hitchc. 

 Along the coast: rare eastward, becoming occasional westward. 



P. DiSTANS (L.) Pari. Rare. Sea beaches and borders of salt 

 marshes: East Haven (Harger), Orange (Bissell), Bridgeport (Eames). 



P. pauperct;la (Holm) Fernald & Weatherby, var. alaskana 

 (Scribn. & Merr.) Fernald & Weatherby. Rhodora, xviii. 18 (1916). 

 P. angustata Rand & Redfield, not Poa angiistata R. Br. Rare. Shore 

 of Blackball River, Old Lyme (Graves). 



The genus Pucdnellia is here treated according to the revision by 

 Fernald & Weatherby (Rhodora, xviii. 1-22), much of the material 

 referred in the Catalogue to P. distans being here included under 

 P.fascicidafa (P. Borrcri of the Catalogue). 



Our species as recognized here may be distinguished by the following 

 key (adapted from Fernald & Weatherby) : — 



A. Lower branches of the comparatively short panicle (0.2-1.6 dm. long) 

 densely flowered nearly to the base or at least below the middle; lem- 

 mas thick and coriaceous, without a broad hyaline tip; the midnerve 

 reaching the apex of the lemma, often excmrent as a very short mucro 



P. fasciculata 

 A. Lower branches of the panicle floriferous chiefly above the middle; lem- 

 mas thin and membranaceous in texture, or at least with a broad hya- 

 line tip; the midnerve not excurrent. B. 



B. Lemmas erose-ciliolate or serrulate under a lens P. distans 



B. Lemmas essentially entire P. paupercula, var. alaskana 



* Festuca rubra, var. subvillosa Mert. & Koch. Dry, rather 

 barren hillside pastures and in a lawn: Franklin (R. W. Woodward, 

 Rhodora, xiii. 70). 



t Festuca ovina L., var. duriuscula (L.) Koch. Established in 

 grass-land about an old house at Branford (Eames), East Haven and 

 Southington (Andrews). 



Bromus hordeaceus L. Grass-land and about lawns in Bridge- 

 port and Fairfield (Eames). 



t B. HORDEACEUS L., var. LEPTOSTACHYS (Pers.) Beck. Bridgeport 

 and Fairfield, growing with the species in about equal numbers. 

 Apparently introduced in grass-seed (Eames). 



B. coMMUTATus L. Ncw Londou (Graves), New Haven (Harger), 

 Waterbury and Woodbury (A. E. Blewitt). Occasional in south- 

 western Connecticut (Eames). 



t B. ARVENSis L. Well established in several dry fields, roadsides 

 and wastes: Bridgeport (Eames). Introduced from Europe. 



