120 LIST OF SEEDS, BULBS, TUBERS, ETC. 
with shorter awns. Variety Glaucifolius (Gray) is 
pale or glaucous throughout, the flowers with more 
spreading awns (1$ long). Variety Jntermedius 
(Vasey) has the awns scarcely longer than the glumes. 
River banks; common. 
SPIKE AND CULM MORE SLENDER. 
E. Sibericus, L.:—Variety Americanus :—Glabrous ; 
spike wand-like (2—6' long, 2—3” thick), often some- 
what nodding; spikelets in pairs, three to six flowered ; 
glumes linear-lanceolate, three to five nerved, acuminate 
and smooth or often scarbrous on the nerves, short- 
awned, shorter than the flowers, which bear an erect 
awn of once or twice their length. Michigan, North- 
ern Minnesota and westward. 
GLUMES AND PALET AWNLESS AND SOFT IN TEXTURE, 
REED-LIKE PERENNIALS. 
E. Mollis, Trin.:—Culm (3° high) velvety at top; 
spike thick, erect (8 long); spikelets two or 
three at each joint, five to eight flowered ; the lanceolate 
pointed five to seven nerved glumes (1 long) and 
the pointed flowers soft-villous ; rhachis of the spikelets 
separating into joints. Shores of the Great Lakes, 
Maine and northward. 
ARUNDINARIA, Michx.—Cane. 
A. Macrosperma—Large Cane :—Culms arborescent, 
10—40° high and $—-3" thick at base, rigid, simple the 
first year, branching the second, afterward at indefinite 
periods fruiting and soon after decaying ; leaves lanceo- 
late (1I—2’ wide), smoothish or pubescent, the sheath 
ciliate on one margin, stoutly fimbriate each side of the 
base of the leaf; panicle lateral, composed of a few 
