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Fig 286. PUCCINEL.L.IA MARITIMA (Huds.) Pari. Fl. Ital. 1:370. 1848. 

 {PoamarUima Huds. Fl. Angl. 35. 1762; GlycenamaritimaUert.& Koch. Roehl. 

 Deutsch. Fl. 1 : 588. 1823. ) SEA SPEAR-GRASS.— A slender perennial 2-5 dm. 

 (8'-20') high, from creeping rootstocks, with narrow, flat, or folded leaves, and 

 more or less expanded panicles 8-12 cm. (3'-5') long. Sheaths usually exceed- 

 ing the internodes; ligule 1-2 mm. (^"-1") long; leaf-blades 1-13 cm. (^'-5') long, 

 2 mm. (1") wide or less, plane or involute. Spikelets (o,5) 3 to 10 flowered, 

 6-12 mm. (3"-6") long; empty glumes unequal, the first 1-nerved, the second 

 3-nerved; flowering glumes (c) obtuse or truncate, 3-1 mm. (U"-2") long.— Salt 

 marshes and beaches along the coast, Labrador to southern New England, and 

 Alaska to British Columbia; also on ballast and waste ground in seaports 

 farther south. (Europe and Asia.) July, August. 



This species occurs on the marshes along the seacoasts of New England and 

 the middle States, and forms a valuable element of the "salt" hay from these 

 marshes. 



