PIjANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 231 



Moist open ground in the northern counties, southwiard 

 locally in the Middle and Cape May districts. 



Mr. Long refers the Farmingdale specimen to var. Hexuosa 

 Scribn. 



Pi. — Late May to late June. 



Middle District. — Farmingdale, Clementon, Medford (S), Lindenwold (S), 

 Mickleton, Pitman, Swedesboro. 

 Cape May. — Cold Spring. 



DANTHONIA De Candolle. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Awned flower scale, notched at the end with triangular pointed tips. 



D. s pic at a, p. 231 

 aa. Awned flower scale with tips prolonged into slender bristles. 



b. Awned scale, silky hairy. D. sericea, p. 231 



bb. Awned scale, glabrous. D. epilis, p. 232 



Danthonia spicata (L.).* Wild Oat Grass. 



PI. VIII., Fig. 5. 



Avena spicata Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 80. 1753 [Pennsylvania]. 

 Danthonia spicata Knieskern 39. — Britton 291. 



Dry sandy ground ; common except in the Pine Barrens, 

 Fl. — Late May to late June. 



Middle District. — Farmingdale (S), New Egypt, Asbury. Medford (S), 

 Albion, Glassboro (S), Swedesboro, Riddleton, Husted (S), Centerton (S). 

 Pine Barrens. — Winslow, Speedwell (S). 

 Coasi Strip. — West Creek (S), Peermont (S). 

 Cape May.— Cape May (OHB). 



Danthonia sericea Nutt. Silky Wild Oat Grass. 



Danthonia sericea Nuttall, Gen. I. 71. 1818 [Carolina to Florida]. — Barton, 

 Fl. Phila. I. 65. 1818.— Willis 75.— Gray Manual Ed. V. 640. 1867.— 

 Britton 291. 



Danthonia gluntosa Knieskern 39. 



Frequent in the Pine Barrens in dry sandy soil, and locally in 

 the lower part of the Middle district. 

 FL — Late May to late June. 



Middle District. — Spring Garden (NB), Lindenwold, Gibbsboro, Tomlin- 

 sons, Williamstown (KB), Sicklerville (S). 



* Specimens from within our limits referred to D. compressa and all refer- 

 able to D. spicata, so far as I have been able to examine them. 



