200 Bicknell : Ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket 



the old mill, Sept. 16, 1907, some fresh panicles remaining; 

 plants small, apparently a second growth. 



Bromus sterilis L. 



Mrs. Owen in her catalogue says that fine specimens of this 

 grass were found near the windmill by Judge Churchill in 1886, 

 and by herself on Fair Street the following year. It is empha- 

 sized that the grass intended is true B. sterilis as distinguished 

 from B. tectorum which, it is said, had not at that time reached the 

 island. 



Bromus racemosus L. 



On West Center Street, Sept., 1904, a few small plants bear- 

 ing fresh panicles ; also on street-side in the south part of the town. 



Bromus hordaceus L. 



Sandy field by the railroad near the town, Aug. 6, 1906, many 

 completely dried plants ; also on Mill Street with B. tectorum, 

 some small, apparently second growth plants bearing fresh pan- 

 icles ; Shawkemo. 



* Bromus secalinus L. 



Roadside south of the town, a single erect but dried-up culm 

 and panicle, Aug. 5, 1906. 



Lolium italicum A. Br. 



Sparingly by roadside north of the town, Aug. 4, 1906; 

 clover field south of the town, Sept., 1907. 



Lolium perennc L., as given in Mrs. Owen's list, may perhaps 

 have referred to L. italicum, which had not been recognized in our 

 flora at that time. 



Agropyron repexs (L.) Beauv. 



Common in several of its forms, sometimes with green spikes 

 but mostly past the flowering stage. 



* Agropyron repens littoreum Anders. 



Sand dunes on the north shore. The plant here in view 

 agrees closely with Scribner's description of littoreum in U. S. Dept. 

 Agric. Div. Agrost. Bull. 4 : 36. It is markedly different from 



repens 



but 



intermediate examples seem to obliterate all sharp lines of demarca 

 tion. 



