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5. Spartina stricta (Ait.) Roth. Smooth Marsh-grass. (Fig. 405.) 
Dactylis stricta Ait. Hort. Kew. 1: Io4. 1789. 
Spartina stricta Roth, Cat. Bot. 3:9. 1806. 
Culms 1°-3° tall, erect, simple, smooth. 
Sheaths overlapping, those at the base shorter 
and looser, much crowded; ligule a ring of short 
hairs; leaves 3/-12’ long, 2//-4/’ wide at the 
base, involute, at least when dry; spikes 3-5, 
erect or nearly so, 1/—2’ long; spikelets 6/’—-8’’ 
long, loosely imbricated; empty scales acute or 
acutish, I-nerved, the first shorter than the 
second, which exceeds or equals the third; palet 
longer than the third scale. 
Spartina stricta maritima (Walt. ) Scribn. Mem. Torr. 
Club, 5:45. 1894. 
Dactylis maritima Walt. F\. Car. 77. 1788. 
Spartina glabra Muhl. Gram. 54. 1817. 
Culms taller,sometimes 9° high, and leaves longer; 
spikes more numerous, usually appressed. 
Spartina stricta alterniflora (Lois.) A. Gray, Man. 
Ed. 2, 552. -1856. 
Spartina alterniflora Lois. Fl. Gall. 2: 719. 1807. 
Culms 4°-6° tall; spikes slender, appressed, 3/-5’ long, the spikelets barely overlapping. 
Very variable. Cemmon, in some one of its forms, along the coast from Maine to Florida and 
Texas. Alsoon the coastof Europe. Our plant does not appear to be satisfactorily identified with 
the European. Aug.—Oct. 
49- CAMPULOSUS Doesv. Bull. Soc. Philom, 2: 189. 1810. 
[CrenrUm Panzer, Deutsch. Akad. Muench. 1813: 288. p/. 73. 1814.] 
Tall pungent-tasted grasses, with flat or convolute narrow leaves and a curved spicate in- 
florescence. Spikelets borne pectinately in two rows on one side of the flat curved rachis, 
1-flowered. Tower 4 scales empty, the first very short, hyaline; the second, third, fourth 
and fifth awned on the back, the latter subtending a perfect flower and palet, the uppermost 
scales empty. Stamens 3. Styles distinct. Stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, free, loosely 
enclosed in the scale. [Greek, in allusion to the curved spike. ] 
Seven known species, four of them American, the others in the eastern hemisphere. 
1. Campulosus aromaticus (Walt.) Scribn. ‘Toothache Grass. (Fig. 406.) 
Aegilops aromatica Walt. Fl. Car. 249. 1788. 
Clenium Americanum Spreng. Syst. 1: 274. 1825. 
Campulosus aromaticus Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club, 
5:45. 1894. 
Culms 3°-4° tall, erect, simple, smooth or some- 
what scabrous. Sheaths shorter than the inter- 
nodes, rough; ligule 1/’ long, truncate; leaves 
1/-6/ long, 1/’-2/’ wide, flat or involute, smooth; 
spike terminal, solitary, curved, 2’-4’ long, the 
rachis extended into a point; spikelets about 3/” 
long; second scale thick and rigid, awn-pointed, 
bearing just above the middle a stout horizontal 
or recurved awn; third, fourth and fifth scales 
membranous, scabrous, awned from below the 
2-toothed apex, the fifth subtending a perfect 
flower, the others empty. 
In wet soil, especially in pine barrens, Virginia to 
Florida. July—Sept. 
