Plend.ph. 10. GR AMINES. 88. Vilfa. 145 



1 . Filfa alba. While bent. 



Culm creeping, branched, rooting ; panicle loose, spread- 

 ing ; spatlieilules smooth, nearly equal, toothed, serrulate ; 

 /oczwto lanceolate; /eaye^ flat, rough ; sheaths ?,Y[\ooi\\. 



Gramen miliaceum majus panicula spadicea, Raii St/n' 405, II. 

 Gramen miliaceum majus panicula viridi, liaii Si/n. 40-1, 13. 

 Agrostis alba, Lin. S. P. 93. 



-Agrostis polymorpha '(, seu palustiis, Ifuds. Fl. Aiigl, 22. 

 Marsh bent grass. White Squitch. Squitch. 



Marshes and woods ; perennial ; July. 

 Root creeping, thick, white; culm naked above, 3 feet 

 high, smooth ; llgula obtuse. 



(3. coijferta. Short ; peduncles crowded at bottom, long, 

 naked, not branched ; both spathelles serrated on the back. 



y. ramosa. Short ; peduncles crowded at bottom, long, 

 naked, branched ; upper half only of the inner spathelle 

 serrated. 



5". nuda. Peduncles all naked at bottom, and branched ; 

 upper half only of the inner spathelle serrated. 



e. sylvatica. Glumes and glumelles growing longer after 

 flowering ; lower branch of the panicle naked at bottom. 



Gramen miliaceum sylvestre glumis oblongis, Raii Syn. 404, 13. 

 Agrostis sylvatica, Lin, S. P. 1665. 

 Agrostis polymorpha tj, Huds. Fl. jingl. 32. 



2. Vilfa nigra. Black bent. 



Stolones creeping, branchy; czJttz upright ; panicle scat- 

 tered, l^wflowered ; locustce lanceolate ; peduncles bare at 

 bottom ; spathelles unequal ; upper part of the lower spa- 

 thelle serrulate ; upper spathelle smooth ; leaves nearly 

 smooth, slender; sheaths smooth. 



Agrostis nigra, With. But, Arr. 173. 



Agrostis stolonifera. Leers Herb, 26 ; not of Linnaeus. 



Black squitch. 



Woods and moist places ; perennial ; July. 



Culms many, slender, 2 feet high ; leaves flat, weak ; ligulct 

 blunt; panicle 2 to 4 in. long; peduncles deep purple; locustce. 

 brown, scattered. 



3. Vilfa stolonfera. Running bent. 

 Culm creeping, taking root, branchy ; panicle compact, 



lower branches spreading, densely crowded at bottom with 

 flowers ; locustcB ovate, lanceolate ; spathelles nearly equal, 

 pubescent; lower spathelle serrulated at the upper part; 

 leaves flat. 



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