74 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



lY, 392: Hook., Fl. Gt. Brit. 487: Miyabe, Fl. Kur. 270: Wats., King Exp. 

 390: Roth., Wheel. Exp. 293: Gov., Fl. Ark. 236: Hart., Fl. Scand. I, 5]4; 

 Upham, Fl. Minn. 168. 



Europe and Asia; cosmopolitan. 



North America: N. S. to Winnipeg, Athabasca, Brit. 

 Col. and Pac. coast; S. to Fla. and Mex. ; W. to S. Cal. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; especially prairie districts; 

 edges of streams and ponds. 



Herb. : Ballard 7S3, Swan Lake, Carver Co. ; Sheldon 

 1053, Sleepy Eye; MacM. and Sheld. 3, Brainerd. 



ERAOKOSTIS Beauv. Agrostogr. 70 (1812). 



Macroblepharos Philippi, Linn. XXIX, 100 (1855). 

 Harpachne Hochst. A. Rich., Fl. Abyssin. II, 431 (1851). 

 Coelachyrum Nees, Linn. XVI, 221 (1842). 

 Megastachya Beauv. Agrostogr. 74 (1812). 

 Cladoraphis Fkanch. ex Dur. 1. c. (1888). 

 Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL III, 1186, Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 476; 

 Engler and Prantl, JN'aL Pflanz. 2, II, 69 (Hackel). 



Living species: 100; cosmopolitan; principally in the 

 tropics. Europe, 5; Russia, 4; N. America, 10-12; S. Sts., 

 10-11; E. Sts., 7; Canada, 1; California, 8-4; Rocky mts. 1; 

 PI. King, 2; PI. Wheel., 3. 



Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Gray, Man. ed. V. 632 



(1868). 



Poa pectinacea Michx. Fl. N. A. (1803). 



P. spectabilis Pursh, Fl. Am. (1814). 



Eragrostis spectabilis Gray, Man. ed. I, 598 (1848). 



E. pectinacea var. spectabilis Gray 1. c. 



Poa hirsuta AucT. A>ier. 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 661: Britt., Fl. N. J. 294; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 102: Upham, Fl. Minn. 168; Chap., Fl. So. St. 564: Gov., Fl. Ark. 

 237. 



North America: Mass. to N. J. and Fla.; W. to Minn., 



Neb. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Forest district; infrequent; sandy and 

 barren places. 



Herb. : Ballard 638, Chaska; Sandberg 583, Red Wing; 

 Oestlund 332, Minneapolis. 



Eragrostis pursliii Schrad. Linn. XII, 45 (1838). 

 Poa tcnclla PURsn, Fl. Am. (1814). 

 P. caroliniana Si'Rencj. Mant. I, 33(1828). 

 P. pectinacea AiX'T. Amer. not of Michx. 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 661; Britt , Fl. N. J. 294: Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 102; Mac, Fl. Can. II, 219; Coult., Fl. Colo. 419 : Cliap., Fl. So. 

 St. 563: Upham, Fl. Minn. 167; Wats., King Exp. 388; Roth., Wheel. Exp. 

 291?: Cov., Fl. Ark. 237. 



