74 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



IV, 392; Hook., Fl. Gt. Brit. 487; Miyabe, Fl. Kur. 270; Wats., King Exp. 

 390; Roth., Wheel. Exp. 293; Cov., Fl. Ark. 236; Hart., FL Scand. I, 514; 

 Uphain, Fl. Minn. 168. 



Europe and Asia; cosmopolitan. 



North America: N. S. to Winnipeg, Athabasca, Brit. 

 Col. and Pac. coast; S. to Fla. and Mex. ; W. to S. Cal. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; especially prairie districts; 

 edges of streams and ponds. 



HERB. : Bollard 783, Swan Lake, Carver Co. ; Sheldon 

 1053, Sleepy Eye; MacM. and Sheld. 3, Brainerd. 



ERAGROSTIS BEAUV. Agrostogr. 70 (1812). 



Macroblepharos PHILIPPI, Linn. XXIX, 100 (1855). 

 Harpachne HOCHST. A. Rich., Fl. Abyssin. II, 431 (1851). 

 Coelachyrum NEES, Linn. XVI. 221 (1842). 

 Megastachya BEAUV. Agrostogr. 74 (1812). 

 Cladoraphis FRANCH. ex Dur. 1. c. (1888). 



Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL III, 1186, Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 476; 

 Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 2, II, Q9 (Hackel). 



Living species: 100; cosmopolitan; principally in the 

 tropics. Europe, 5; Russia, 4; N. America, 10-12; S. Sts., 

 10-11; E. Sts., 7; Canada, 1; California, 3-4; Rocky mts. 1; 

 PL King, 2; PL Wheel., 3. 



Eragrostis pectinacea (Micnx.) GRAY, Man. ed. V, 682 



(1868). 



Poa pectinacea MICHX. Fl. N. A. (1803). 



P. spectabilis PURSH, Fl. Am. (1814). 



Eragrostis spectabilis GRAY, Man. ed. I, 598 (1848). 



E. pectinacea var. spectabilis GRAY 1. c. 



Poa hirsuta AUCT. AMER. 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 661; Britt., Fl. N. J, 294; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 102; Upham, Fl. Minn. 168; Chap., Fl. So. St. 564; Cov., Fl. Ark. 

 237. 



North America: Mass, to N. J. and Fla.; W. to Minn., 



Neb. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Forest district; infrequent; sandy and 

 barren places. 



HERB. : Bollard 638, Chaska; Sondberg 582, Red Wing; 

 Oestlund 332, Minneapolis. 



Eragrostis purshii SCHRAD. Linn. XII, 45 (1838). 

 Poa tenella PURSH, Fl. Am. (1814). 

 P. caroliniana Si'RENG. Mant. I, 33(1828). 

 P. pectinacea AUCT. AMER. not of MICHX. 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 661; Britt , Fl. N. J. 294; Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 102; Mac., Fl. Can. II, 219; Coult., Fl. Colo. 419 ; Chap., Fl. So. 

 St. 563; Upham, Fl. Minn. 167; Wats., King Exp. 388; Roth., Wheel. Exp. 

 291?; Cov., Fl. Ark. 237. 



