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§ 1. Palese firmiores, inferior nervis 7 prorainulis : glumjE flores 3-4 

 oequantes. — Scolochloa. 



1. G. FESTDCACEUM. Arundo festucaceci, Willd. Festuca borealis, 

 Mert. & Koch.; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2, t. 231. Scolochloa festucacea, 

 Link, Griseb. Fluminia arundinacea, Fries. 



§ 2. Rhachis spicula3 etiam barbata ; glumfe scabrse, inaequales, flores 

 3-4 subeequantes. — Graphephorum, Desv. 



2. G. melicoides, Beauv. 1. c. Aira melicoides, Michx. 



Var. MAJOR. Dupontia Cooleyi, Gray, Man. Bot. N. U. S. ed. 2, p. 



556. ( Gary opsis libera !) 



§ 3. Palea3 tenuiores ; glumae flores 2-3 subsequantes. — Dupontia. 



3. G. Fischeri. Dupontia Fischeri, R. Br. Poa {Dupontia) pel- 

 ligera, Rupr. 1. c. 



Var. PSiLOSANTHUM. Poa {Dupontia) psilosantha, Rupr. 1. c. Du- 

 pontia psilosantha, Rupr. 1. c. t. 6 ; Griseb. 1. c. 



§ 4. Glumae spicula 2 - 7-flora breviores ; flores parvuli. — Arcto- 



PHILA. 



4. G. FUL VUM. Poa fulva, Trin. Poa ( Arctophila) fulva, sclero- 

 clada, latijlora, ^ poecilantha, Rupr. ex Griseb. Glyceria fulva, 

 Fries. Colpodium {Arctophila) fulvum, Griseb. 



5. G. pendulinum. Poa pendulina, Fl. Dan. t. 2343. Poa {Arc- 

 tophila) dejiexa, remotijlora, 8^ similis, Rupr. Glyceria pendulina, 

 Loestacl. Colpodium {Arctophila) pendulinum, Griseb. 



Four hundred and ninety-second meeting. 



February 4, 1861. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



In accordance with the vote passed at the last preceding 

 monthly meeting (vide p. 112), the Academy convened at the 

 house of the venerable Josiah Quincy, upon the occasion of his 

 entering his ninetieth year. The Academy by its President 

 offered an appropriate address to Mr. Quincy, who responded 

 in some interesting remarks, and the Academy was addressed 

 upon the occasion by the President of Harvard University, the 

 Hon, James Savage, and Professor W. B. Rogers. 



