132 GRAMINEAE. 
Third and fourth scales not awned, 
Entire, culms 1°-2° tall. 
Erose-truncate, culms 6’ tall or less. 
Third and fourth scales awned, 
2. Savastana pauciflora (R. Br.) Scribn. 
Arctic Holy Grass. (Fig. 295.) 
Hlierochloa paucifiora R, Br. App. Parry’s Voy. 293. 1824. 
Savastana paucifiora Scribn. Mem. Torr, Bot. Club, 5: 353. 
1894. 
Glabrous, culms 6’ high or less, erect, simple, smooth. 
Sheaths mostly at the base of the culm, overlapping; 
ligule about %’’ long; leaves smooth, the basal ones 
1/-2/ long, 14’” wide, involute at least when dry; culm 
leaves 14’ long or less, 1/’ wide, flat; panicle less than 1’ 
long, contracted; spikelets few, 114//-2’ long; first and 
second scales 14’/-2’’ long, smooth and glabrous; third 
and fourth shorter, scabrous, erose-truncate, the fifth 
shorter than the others, obtuse, villous at the apex. 
Arctic America. Summer. 
3. Savastana alpina (Sw.) Scribn. Alpine Holy Grass. 
FHolcus alpinus Sw.; Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 937. 
Flierochloa alpina R. & S. Syst. 2: 515. 
Savastana alpina Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 34. 
and Asia, July—Aug. 
1. S. odorata. 
2. S. pauciflora. 
3. S. alpina. 
1. Savastana odorata (JL. ) Scribn. 
Grass. Seneca Grass. 
FTolcus odoratus 1,. Sp. Pl. 1048. 
Hierochloa borealis R. & S. Syst. 2: 513. 
Savastana odorata Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 34. 
Glabrous, culms 1°-2° tall, erect, simple, smooth. 
Sheaths smooth; ligule 1//-2’/ long; lower leaves 
elongated, 4’-S’ long, 1/’—3’’ wide, scabrous, the upper 
ones 4/—2/ long; panicle 2/—4’ long, its branches 1/— 
2’ long, usually spreading, naked below; spikelets 
yellowish-brown and purple, 2’’-3’ long; first and 
second scales about equal, glabrous; third and fourth 
villous and strongly ciliate, entire, awn-pointed, the 
fifth smaller than the others, villous at the apex. 
Newfoundland to Alaska, south to New Jersey, Wiscon- 
sin and Colorado. Also in northern Europe and Asia. 
June-July. This and other sweet-scented grasses are 
strewn before the churches in northern Europe, whence 
the name Holy Grass. Also known as Vanilla Grass. 
(Fig. 294.) 
(Fig. 296.) 
Glabrous and smooth, culms 6/—18/ tall, erect, 
simple. Sheaths shorter than the internodes; 
ligule less than 1’ long; lower leaves elongated, 
3/-6/ long, about 1’ wide, the upper much shorter, 
14/-2/ long, 1//-2/’ wide; panicle 3(/-1%4’ long, 
contracted, branches short, erect or ascending; oc- 
casionally the panicle is larger with longer and 
spreading branches; spikelets 214//-3 
crowded; first and second scales glabrous, 2%4//— 
314” long ; third and fourth shorter, scabrous, cili- 
ate on the margins, the former bearing an awn 
about I’ long, the latter with a moreorless bent awn 
about 3’ long; fifth scale shorter than the others, 
acute, usually awn-pointed, villous at the apex. 
"Greenland to Alaska, south to the high mountains of 
New England and New York. Alsoin northern Europe 
