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he considers without doubt a distinct species from F. ovina. 

 Specimens from High Head, Great Cranberry Isle, Little 

 Cranberry Isle, and Thompson Island, may be referred to var. 

 genuina, Hack. A specimen from Indian Point road, Somes- 

 ville, appears to be var. fallax, Hack. 



''In F. rubra the leaves of the culm and sterile shoots are 

 similar, the ligules in the latter are not auriculate, and the 

 shoots themselves are extra-vaginal; i. e. the buds of the 

 branches at the base of the culm burst through the base of 

 the leaf sheath in the axil of which they are formed. In 

 F. ovina the leaves of the flowering culms and sterile shoots 

 are unlike, the ligules on the latter are auriculate and the 

 shoots themselves are intra-vaginal; i. e. the buds in the lower 

 leaf axils grow up out of the sheaths and do not break through 

 them below. F. ovina is strictly tufted, while F. rubra extends 

 more or less by rootstocks." F. Lamson-Scribner. 



F. DURiuscuLA, L. F. ovina, L., var. duriuscula, Koch. 

 Gray, Man., 6th ed. 

 Rare. Near Hulls Cove (Rand). Naturalized from Europe. 



F. ELATIOR, L. 



Fields and roadsides ; common. Northeast Harbor; South- 

 west Harbor; Bar Harbor; Somesville; Seal Harbor; High 

 Head. Naturalized from Europe. 



Var. PRATENSis (Huds.), Gray. 



Fields. Seal Harbor; Southwest Harbor; Somesville; High 

 Head, and elsewhere. Naturalized from Europe. 



BROMUS, L. Brome Grass. 

 B. ciliatus, L. 



Frequent in rocky woods and low ground. Variable. 



AGROPYRUM, Gsertn. {Triticum, L.) False Wheat. 



A. repens (L.), Beauv. Triticum repens, L. Quitch Grass. 

 Witch Grass. 

 Fields, waysides, and shores; common and very variable. 

 Naturalized from Europe in cultivated grounds, and also in- 



