616 CLXI. GRAMINE^E. UNIOLA. 



spikelets terete, linear, purplish, about 5-flowered; fls. obtuse, indistinctly 5- 

 veined. 'ZJ. Salt marshes, Ms., Bigelow. June. 



18. P. AQUATICA. /?. Americana. Torr. (P. aquatica. PA.) 



Smooth ; st. stout, leafy, 4 5f high ; Ivs. broad-linear, flat, thin ; panicle 

 erect, diffuse, branches at length spreading, flexuous, 3 5 together, in half 

 whorls ; spikelets linear, purple, with 6 8 ovate-obtuse flowers. 1\. Wet mea- 

 dows, Free States and Can. A very large, handsome poa. Aug. 



19. P.'DENTATA. Torr. 



Smooth ; st. erect, round, 3f high ; Ivs. flat, linear, 10 16' long, glaucous 

 beneath ; slip, elongated ; panicle large, loose, few-flowered, branches capillary, 

 spreading ; spikelets lanceolate, about 5-flowered ; lower glume 3- veined ; lower 

 palea 5-veined, 5-toothed at the apex when old. % Swamps, Mass., N. H. ! to 

 Penn. Not very common. June, July. 



20. P. FASCICULATA. Torr. 



Very smooth ; st. firm and leafy, oblique, round, branched at base, 1 2f 

 high ; Ivs. flat, lance-linear ; panicle spreading, branches fasciculate, crowded, 

 straight ; spikelets oblong, somewhat racemed, sessile, crowded, about 3-flow~ 

 ered; glumes minute, unequal. 7J. Salt marshes, N. Y. 



21. P. PECTINACEA. Michx. (P. pilosa. Mutt. P. tenella. Ph.} 



St. casspitose, oblique, geniculate at base, 8 12' high ; Ivs. flat, smooth, 

 pilose at base, 5-veined, 2 4/ long ; sheaths bearded at the throat ; panicle large, 

 loose, capillary, purplish, hairy in the axils, branches subverticillate ; spikelets 

 linear, with 59 acute flowers ; upper palea persistent on the rachis which thus 

 is made finally to appear pectinate. (J) In sandy fields, Mid. and S. States. 

 July, Aug. 



22. P. REPTANS. 



J* 9 st - branched, creeping, rooting at the joints, 6 12' long; Ivs. subu- 

 late, flat, 2 3' long ; sheaths open, pilose on the margin and throat : panicle 

 1 2' long, branches short, simple, in fascicles, few-flowered; spikelets linear- 

 lanceolate, with 12 20 acuminate flowers. (J) Swamps, N. Y. to Ky. ! Jl., Aug. 



23. P. ERAGROSTIS. (P. obtusa. Nutt. J3riza eragrostis. Muhl.} 



St. oblique or decumbent, geniculate, 1 2f long; Ivs. lanceolate, attenu- 

 ate at end, scabrous on the margin and above ; sheaths pilose at the throat ; slip. 

 short, bearded ; panicle expanding, branches subdivided, flexuous, subpilose in 

 the axils ; spikelets ovate-oblong, 12 20-flowered ; glumes nearly equal. A 

 beautiful grass, introduced into fields and roadsides, N. Eng. to 111. ! It has a 

 strong, peculiar odor. Aug. <\ 



42. BRIZA. 



Gr. /?pia>, to nod, or hang down ; alluding to the pendulous spikelets. 



Spikelets cordate-ovate. 6 9-flowered ; glumes 2, shorter than the 

 lower flowers ; paleae ventricose, lower one cordate at base, embracing 

 the upper which is suborbicular and much shorter ; caryopsis beaked. 



B. MEDIA. 



St. naked above, 1 2f high; Ivs. flat, smooth, lance-linear; stip. short, 

 obtuse ; panicle erect, few-flowered, branches wide-spreading, capillary, pur- 

 plish, bearing the ovate or cordate, tumid, pendant and tremulous spikelets at 

 the ends, these are about 7-flowered, greenish-purple ; pakce veinless. ^Natu- 

 ralized in the vicinity of Boston, Bigelow. May. 



43. UNlOLA. 



Lat. urvus, one ; on account of the aggregation of many flowers into one spikelet 



Spikelets compressed, 3 20-flowered ; lower flower abortive ; 

 glumes 2. shorter than the lower flower ; lower paleae boat-shaped at 

 the end, truncate and mucronate between the lobes, upper subulate, 

 somewhat bifid ; scales emarginate ; caryopsis with 2 horns. 



1. U. LATIFOLIA. Michx. Broad-leaved Uniola. 



St. 2 4f high, smooth, subsimple ; Ivs. 8 18' by 6 12", lance-linear, 



