PLiANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 243 



Locally in swamps of the Northern and Middle districts and 

 coast strip. 



Fl. — Early June to mid- July, sporadically into August. 



Middle District.— Cooper's Pt, Merchantville (P), Gloucester (P), 

 Mickleton (NB). 

 Pine Barrens. — Waterford (P). 

 Coast Strip. — Manahawkin. 



Panicularia grandis (Wats.). Reed Meadow Grass. 



Glyceria grandis Watson, Gray's Man. Ed. 6. 667. 1890 [New England to 



Minnesota, etc.]. 

 Glyceria arundinacea Britton 296. 



A northern species probably now extinct within our limits, 



but represented in the State herbarium at New Brunswick by 



one specimen collected many years ago at Cooper's Bridge, by 



Mr. E. Diffenbaugh. 



Middle District.— Cooptr's Bridge (NB). Coll. by E. Diffenbaugh, 1863. 



PUCCINELLIA Parlatore. 



Puccinellia fasciculata (Torr.). Spreading Meadow Grass. 



Poa fasciculata Torrey, Fl. U. S. I. 107. 1824 [Salt marshes about N. y. 



City]. 

 Glyceria distans Britton 296. 

 Puccinellia distans Keller and Brown 53. 



Borders of salt marshes on the coast. 



PL — Late May into September. 



Maritime. — Surf City (L), Barnegat City (L), Spray Beach (L), Absecon 

 (NB), Cape May, Fortesque Beach (NB). 



FESTUCA L. 



Key to the Species. 

 a. Short, erect grasses, 1-6 dm. high, with involute wiry leaves, and green- 

 ish or reddish, usually contracted panicles. 

 b. Flower scales with an awn of equal length. F. octoAora, p. 244 



hb. Flower scales, awnless or awn much shorter than the scale. 



c. Plant over 3 dm. in height, panicle reddish. F. rubra, p. 244 



cc. Plant less than 3 dm. in height, panicle green. [F. ovinaY 



aa. Taller plants 6-15 dm. high, with flat, green leaves. 



b. Branches of panicle short and erect, spikelets 5-10 flowered. 



[F. elatior]* 



bb. Branches of panicle long and drooping, spikelets mostly near the 



ends, s-6 flowered. F. nutans, p. 244 



^ Sheep Fescue Grass, occasionally established in w^aste ground. 

 'Tall Fescue Grass, frequent in fields, etc. PI. XIV., Fig. i. 



