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B. vulgaris L. var. eximius Shear. — Frequent in the forest area. 

 Dactylis glomerata L. — Frequent in open protected places. 



Poa annua L. — Common nearly everywhere, including the beach. 



P. compressa L. — Frequent in open, especially cultivated ground. 



P. macrantha Vasey. — Abundant on the beach and low dunes at 

 Newport ; elsewhere scarce. 



Poa pratensis L. — Common in open ground, but not forming turf. 



Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene. — Found rather sparingly along 

 the beach, but very abundant in swampy ground about the bays. 



Festuca megalura Nutt. — Common, especially about houses and 

 in cultivated land. 



F. myuros L. — Found sparingly in openings in the forest at Seal 

 Rocks. 



F. rubra L. — Typical form common well back from the beach, 

 especially in open ground. Maritime form abundant in many 

 places on steep seaward faces of shore blufifs. 



F. etatior L. — Common in open protected places. 



Panicularia leptostachya Buckl. — Plentiful in small streams at 

 Seal Rocks. 



P. americana Torr. — Found sparingly along streams at Seal 

 Rocks. 



Puccinellia paupercula (Holm) Fern and Weath. var. alaskana 

 (Scrib. & Merrill) Fern. & Mer. — Occurs sparingly about Yaquina 

 bay. 



Lolium multiflorum Lam. — On high beach at Newport. 



L. perenne L. — Common in open ground, especially about houses 

 at Newport and Seal Rocks. 



Agropyron caesium Presl. — Found only about the lighthouse on 

 Yaquina Head. Apparently the only record of its occurence in the 

 state (Nelson). 



Elymus arenarius L. — Common along the beach and on low 

 dunes. 



Hordeum jubatum L. — Occurs sparingly about the bays. 



Cyperaceae. 

 Carex leptalea Wahl. — In sphagnum bog two miles below wSeal 

 Rocks. 



C. macrocephala Willd. — A few specimens found at Newport, 

 Seal Rocks, and three miles south of Alsea bay on the beach and 

 low seaward slopes of shore bluffs. 



C. pansa Bail. — Found in abundance a short distance above the 

 beach on the south side of Yaquina bay and at Waldport near the 

 mouth of Alsea bay.. 



