

Bickxell: Ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket 476 



On Nantucket, on June 18, both species were found growing 

 in actual contact, A. antecedent being at the height of bloom A. 

 hyemalis, although larger throughout and much more leafy, not'yet 

 showing the first signs of flowering. 



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mgly but of full development, the most advanced plants just in 

 flower. Lower sheaths pubescent ; plant perfectly typical as dis- 



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- ~~. v. paui unuugu a. uauip tiucKei; in 

 first flowers, but panicles not yet fully expanded. 



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POA TRIVIALIS L. 



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Common along dry or damp clayey roadsides towards Brant 

 mt and bel °w the » Cliff," often in close association with P 



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he plant seems rather ambiguous in some of its characters as 

 u 'een P. distans and P. airoides (Nutt.) Wats. & Coult. 



Festuc. 



A DURIUSCULA L. 



ccasional in sandy lots and by roadsides on the outskirts of 



- «"«, ; m full flower June 8. 



a ler than Festnca ovina, with puberulent leaf-sheaths and larger 

 i the flowering scales larger, sometimes almost hirsute-pu- 



onT^ 3nd Ion ^ er ' awned - ™ s P Ia "t is referred to F. duriuscula 



s rength of presumably authentic European specimens. It 



th i. Seem t0 ^ ave k een generally lost sight of in our manuals 

 c . e 0n ginal description of this grass calls for hispid flowering 



aes — "spcis * * * hispidis" (Sp. Pi. 74. 1753)- 

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a number of places by street-sides in the town, sometimes 



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a u ndance, as along Pleasant Street. 



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Point rC(1 ' Uent ° r common m tne town and occasional at outlying 

 s > 'Sconset. Just in flower June 7. 



