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exposed, slender at base, usually lying flat at maturity, and genicu- 

 late above at two upper joints : sheaths smooth, much exceeding 

 internodes below, equalling them or a little shorter above : leaves 

 4 or 5, usually secund, approximate near middle of stem, open, 

 with distinct midrib, often keeled, about 6 mm. broad, involute 

 when diy, glaucous above, yellowish green below, becoming red- 

 dish or purple as they ripen, lowest I dm. long, dead at flowering 



time; middle about equalling the culm, 2-6 dm. long, upper 2.5 

 10 cm. long, reaching base or middle of panicle, all with long 

 involute scabrous points : (there is a small joint or knot in tin 

 leaf at about the upper third, more noticeable when dry, above 

 which several of the nerves are scabrous, and the leaf tapers to a 

 long filiform scabrous point) spikes usually 3, often 8, 2.5-3.5 

 cm. long, spreading, becoming erect but not appressed, 20-30- 

 flowered, the common rachis very bristly on edges above, roundish 

 and nearly smooth below: spikelets 1-1.2 cm. long, sessile or 

 nearly so, lower glume two-thirds length of upper, or with its 



short rough awn point five-sixths as long, rough scabrous on 

 back : second glume very rough-scabrous on back and gradually 

 rough awn-pointed, the edges scabrous above top of palet : third 

 glume with midvein rough-scabrous above middle, ending below 

 the tip in a very scabrous point : palet hyaline, little or not at all 

 longer than upper glume, two-thirds as long as middle one, boat 

 shaped, finely scabrous above on midvein. 



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°Pen, filiform-tapering, scabrous, erect leaves, scabrous common 



rachis, flowers sessile in lower glume, (stalked in S. patens) and 



empty glumes both more scabrous and rough awn-pointed, th< 



second very prominently so. 



In brackish, rather dry and firm soil at borders of marsh 



here wet by tide a few times a year, associated with Hymns 



v *rginicus, Panicum virgatum, Eleocharis rostcllata, and other 



coarse grasses of such places, often among bushes at border ; one 



tussock at Seabrook, N. H., Aug. 26, 1896, species subsequently 



tr aced on both sides of marsh from Hampton, X. H., on the north, 



t0 Ipswich, Mass., on the south, most abundant at the causeway, 

 Salisbury, M 



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June 



Eriophorum graeiU Koch, is with us in condition to collect on 

 'St. In the spring of 1896 I put oft my trip for it till 

 J Ur >e 1 2th, when it was dead ripe. On June 29th, I noticed in 

 loc alities, Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass., an Erioph&ntm re- 



