232 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Pine Ban-ens. — Manchester (C), Browns Mills, Speedwell (S), Albion, 

 Cedar Brook, Waterford (P), White Horse (P), Landisville, Winslow Jnc, 

 Hammonton, Atsion (P), Quaker Bridge, Batsto, Folsom, Egg Harbor City 

 (P), Mays Landing, Dennisville (P). 



Coast Strip. — Ocean Beach (C). 



Danthonia epilis Scribn. Smooth Wild Oat Grass. 



Danthonia epilis Scribner, U. S. Div. Agrost. Circ. 30, p. 7 [n. n. for D. glabra 

 Nash nee Philippi— Little Stone Mt., Ga.]. 



Restricted to the Pine Barren region,, which marks the north- 

 ern Hmit of the species. 



Abundant on natural bogs, growing in the wet sphagnum en- 

 tirely different in habitat from the preceding, and very distinct. 



Fl. — Probably late May to late June. 



Pine Barrens. — Forked River, Three mi. S. E. of Chatsworth, Three mi. N. 

 of Atsion. 



SPARTINA Schreber. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Glumes unequal, shorter one equal to flower scales. 



S. michauxiana, p. 232 

 aa. Glumes unequal, shorter one-half as long as flower scales. 

 b. Both glumes scabrous on the keel. 



c. Leaves 12 mm. wide or more. 5". cynosuroides, p. 233 



cc. Leaves not over 6 mm. wide. S. patens, p. 233 



bb. Shorter glume glabrous. 



c. Spikelets overlapping. S. glabra pilosa, p. 234 



cc. Spikelets more remote, barely overlapping. vS". g. altennifoUa, p. 234 



Spartina michauxiana Hitchc. Tall Marsh Grass. 



Spartina michauxiana Hitchcock, Contr. Nat. Herb. XH. 3. 153 [new name 

 for Trachynotia cynosuroides Michx. nee Dactylis cynosuroides L. [Illi- 

 nois]. 



Spartina cynosuroides Britton 283. — Keller and Brown 47. 



Larger rivers along the coast, extending inland to Ham- 

 monton. Casual also in Bergen and Hunterdon Counties. 



PI — Mid-July into September. Panicles persist through 



autumn. 



Coast Strip.— Tt. Pleasant (S), Seaside Park (S), Toms River (S), Bar- 

 negat Pier, Forked River, Manahawkin, Barnegat, Tucker's (L), West Creek, 

 Absecon, Longport (Ha), Ocean City (S), N. of Weekstown, Hammonton. 

 Town Bank (OHB). 



