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GRAMINEAE. 



Panicle 6' long or more, its branches 4'-8' long ; blades long, narrow. 

 Erose-truncate, culms 6' tall or less. 

 Third and fourth scales awned. 



VOL. I. 



2. S. Nashii. 



3. S. pauciflora. 



4. S. alpina. 



i. Savastana odorata (L.) Scribn. Holy Grass. Seneca-grass. Fig. 408. 



Holcus odoratus L. Sp. PI. 1048. 1753. 



Hierochloa borealis R. & S. Syst. 2: 513. 1817. 



Hierochloa odorata Wahl. Fl. Ups. 32. 1820. 



Savastana odorata Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 34. 1894. 



Glabrous, culms i -2 tall, erect, simple, smooth. Sheaths 

 smooth; ligule i"-2" long; lower blades elongated, 4'-8' 

 long, i "-3" wide, scabrous, the upper ones \'-2 l long; 

 panicle 2' -4' long, its branches i'-2' long, usually spreading, 

 naked below ; spikelets yellowish-brown and purple, 2" -3" 

 long; first and second scales about equal, glabrous; third 

 and fourth villous and strongly ciliate, entire, awn-pointed, 

 the fifth smaller than the others, villous at the apex. 



Labrador and Newfoundland to Alaska, south to New Jersey, 

 Iowa and Colorado. Also in northern Europe and Asia. 

 June-July. This and other sweet-scented grasses are strewn 

 before the churches in northern Europe, whence the name 

 Holy-grass. Also known as Vanilla-grass. 



2. Savastana Nashii Bicknell. Nodding Vanilla-grass. Fig. 409. 



Savastana Nashii Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 25: 104. pi. 

 328. 1898. 



Plant smooth, glabrous and shining. Culms erect, 

 slender, simple, 2-3 tall. Sheaths overlapping, 

 striate ; ligule scarious, 2" -3" long ; blades erect or 

 ascending, elongated, a little roughened above, the 

 culm leaves 5 or 6, 2 '-8' long, 2" -3" wide, acuminate ; 

 panicle long-exserted, loose and open, j'-ij' long, its 

 apex nodding, the capillary branches drooping, the 

 larger 3'-7' long, in pairs, the divisions more or less 

 flexuous ; spikelets 2 $"-4" long, on capillary pedicels ; 

 scales 5, the outer 2 empty, abruptly long-acuminate, 

 the first i-nerved, the second 3-nerved, the third and 

 fourth scales about 2\" long, rough, ciliate on the 

 margins with ascending hairs, 5-nerved, acute, usu- 

 ally awn-pointed, the fifth scale smaller, smooth, his- 

 pidulous at the apex, sometimes awn-pointed. 



Along brackish marshes, New York City. July-Aug. 



3. Savastana pauciflora (R. Br.) Scribn. Arctic 

 Holy Grass. Fig. 410. 



Hierochloa pauciflora R. Br. App. Parry's Voy. 293. 1824. 

 5". pauciflora Scribn. Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 5: 353. 1894. 



Glabrous, culms 6' high or less, erect, simple, smooth. 

 Sheaths mostly at the base of the culm, overlapping; ligule 

 about \" long; blades smooth, the basal ones i'-2 r long, 

 i" wide, involute at least when dry ; culm-blades 4' long 

 or less, i" wide, flat; panicle less than i' long, contracted; 

 spikelets few, ii"-2" long; first and second scales ii"-2" 

 long, smooth and glabrous ; third and fourth shorter, sca- 

 brous, erose-truncate, the fifth shorter than the others, 

 obtuse, villous at the apex. 



Arctic America. Summer. 



