GRASS FAMILY. 

 5. Spartina stricta (Ait.) Roth. Smooth Marsh-grass. (Fig. 405.) 



Jhnh'lis strict a Ait. Hort. Kew. i: 104. 1789. 

 Spartina stricta Roth, Cat. Bot. 3: 9. 1806. 



Culms i-3 tall, erect, simple, smooth. 

 Sheaths overlapping, those at the base shorter 

 and looser, much crowded; ligule a ring of short 

 hairs leaves 3 / -i2 / long, 2 // -4 // wide at the 

 base, involute, at least when dry; spikes 3-5, 

 erect or nearly so, i / -2 / long; spikelets 6"-8" 

 lontf, loosely imbricated; empty scales acute or 

 acutish, i-nerved, the first shorter than the 

 second, which exceeds or equals the third; palet 

 longer than the third scale. 



Spartina stricta maritima (Walt. ) Scribn. Mem. Torr. 



Club, 5: 45. 1894. 



Dactvlis maritima Walt. Fl. Car. 77. 1788. 

 Spartina glabra Muhl. Gram. 54. 1817. 



Culms taller,sometimes 9 high, and leaves longer; 

 spikes more numerous, usually appressed. 



Spartina stricta alterniflora (Lois.) A. Gray, Man. 

 Ed. 2, 552. 1856. 



Sparlina alterniflora Lois. Fl. Gall. 2: 719. 1807. 



Culms 4-6 tall; spikes slender, appressed, 3' -5' long, the spikelets barely overlapping 



Very variable. Common, in some one of its forms, along the coast from Maine to Florid* and 



Texas. Also on the coast of Europe. Our plant does not appear to be satisf.i 



the European. Aug.-Oct. 



49. CAMPULOSUS Desv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 2: is y . 1810. 



[CTENIUM Panzer, Deutsch. Akad. Muench. 1813: 288. pi. /?. 1*14.) 

 Tall pungent-tasted grasses, with flat or convolute narrow leaves and a i urvi-d spicate in- 

 florescence. Spikelets borne pectinately in two rows on one side of the flat curved rachu, 

 i-flowered. Lower 4 scales empty, the first very short, hyaline; the second, third, fourth 

 and fifth awned on the back, the latter subtending a perfect flower and palet, the uppcrmort 

 scales empty. Stamens 3. Styles distinct. Stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, free, loosely 

 enclosed in the scale. [Greek, in allusion to the curved spike.] 



Seven known species, four of them American, the others in the eastern hemisphere. 



i. Campulosus aromaticus (Walt.) Scribn. Toothache Grass. (Fig. 406.) 



Aegilops aromatica Walt. Fl. Car. 249. 1768. 



Clcnium Ameriianum Spn -UK SiM i 



Campulosus aroma t if us Scribo. Mem. Torr Club. 

 5: 45- i894- 



Culms 3-4 tall, erect, simple, smooth or *. 

 what scabrous. Sheaths shorter than the inter- 

 nodes, rough; Hgule i" long, tr * 

 I '-6' long, l // -2" wide, flat or involute, smooth; 

 spike terminal, .military . cur\. long, the 

 rachis extended into a point 

 long; second scale thick and n^d. awn-pot: 

 bearing just above the middle a stout horuooUl 

 or recurved awn; third, fourth and fifth scale* 

 membranous, >c.i>r.u-.. awm-d from below I 

 2-toothed apex, the fifth subtending perfect 

 flower, the others empty. 



In wet soil, especially in pine barren*. Virftetoto 

 Florida. July-Sept. 



