400 POACE^. 



lute, strict, pungent, glaucous above, 5-8 mm. wide at the base^ 

 more or less deciduous from the sheaths. Panicle strict, 7-18 cm. 

 lono-; spikes 3-8 in number, 2-7 cm. long, point ol: rachis often 

 twice as long as the upper spikelet. Spikelets linear, yellowish 

 trreen, 12-18 mm. long; smooth, except the scabrous keels of the 

 glumes, first glume narrow, acuminate, second 1-3-nerved, 2- 

 toothed, and tipped with a stiff awn. 



Texas, Xealley for U. S. Nat. Herb. 105. 



Marshes near the coast on both sides of the continent. Eaten 

 by stock when young. 



Var. maritima (Curt.) Scribn. Dactylis maritima Curt. Enum. 

 Brit. Gr. 4 (1785). S. Icevigata Willd. Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. 

 (VI.) 6: 113 (1840). *S^. glabra Muld. Gram. 54 (1817). S. stricta 

 glabra Muhl.; A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2:552 (1856). 



Culms and blades longer, spikes more slender, 6-12 cm. long. 

 Spikelets crowded or remote, 12-18 mm. long, first glume 7-8 mm. 

 long, second 5-nerved. 



Vermont, Pringle; Massachusetts, Beal 88, 89, Sturtevant; 

 Rhode Island, Tweedy for U. S. Dept. Agricul. 130; southern 

 California, Palmer 274. 



Common on the Atlantic coast; also along Onondaga Lake in 

 New York, and in California. 



6. S. junciformis Engelm. & Gray, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. 5: 

 238 (1845). 8. Gouini Fourn. ? 



Culms stout, very smooth, 60-180 cm. high. Lower sheaths 

 mostly shorter than the internodes, the upper longer ; ligule a hairy 

 fringe; blades of sterile shoots 30-60 cm. long, those of the 

 culm 5-6, smooth, involute, rigid. Panicle truly spikelike, 10- 

 22 cm. long, tapering to the apex ; spikes 30-50, sessile, imbricate, 

 2-4 cm. long, the lower ones longer. Spikelets linear, 6-8 mm. 

 long; empty glumes subequal, ciliate-hispid on the keel, first linear, 

 obtuse or acute when spread, 4-6 mm. long, second broadly linear, 

 truncate-toothed or emarginate; floral glume a little longer and 

 broader; palea narrowly ovate, about as long as its glume. 



Nearly allied to *S'. gracilis, and possibly to ,S'. densiflora Brongm. 

 Florida, Nat. Mus. from /. //. Simpson, distributed as ^S'. mnl- 



