196 Bicknell: Ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket 



and denser panicle, and sometimes larger spikelets, in white sand 

 among the dunes and sand wastes. 



Eragrostis spectabilis (Pursh) A. Gray. 



Frequent or common in sandy places. 

 Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene. 



Very common in salt marshes. 

 Dactylis glomerata L. 



about farm lands. In- 



florescence completely dried. 



Poa annua L. 



Common, some fresh panicles. 



Poa pratensis L. 



Common, panicles dried. - 



Poa trivialis L. 



Mentioned in Mrs. Owen's catalogue ; I did not meet with it. 

 Poa compressa L. 



Common, panicles dried. 



Poa serotina Ehrh. 



At several places along old wharves and once by a street-side 

 in the town. 



laria 



Common. A very coarse, stout form is frequent, having 

 broad, decompound panicles, the larger leaves 12 mm. wide, the 

 stem sometimes 1 cm. thick at base. 



Panicularia nervata (Willd.) Kuntze. 



Frequent ; past flowering. 



) MacM 



Uncommon ; at three stations south of the town ; north of the 

 town ; Polpis. Few spikelets remaining. 



Panicularia pallida (Torr.) Kuntze. 



Frequent or common in ponds and pools, mostly past flowering. 



* Panicularia septentrionalis (Hitchc.) comb. nov. 



Glyccria septentrionalis Hitchc. Rhodora 8:211. 1 906. 

 Panicularia fluitans (L.) Kuntze, of authors, not Glycerin 

 fimtans (L.) R. Br. 



