PLiANTS OP SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 231 



Moist open ground in the northern counties, southwb.rd 

 locally in the Middle and Cape May districts. 



Mr. Long refers the Farmingdale specimen to var. Uexuosa 

 Scribn. 



Pl.—hSuit May to late June. 



Middle JDwiWc*.— Farmingdale, Clementon, Medford (S), Lindenwold (S), 

 Mickleton, Pitman, Swedesboro. 

 Cape May. — Cold Spring. 



DANTHONIA De Candolle. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Awned flower scale, notched at the end with triangular pointed tips. 



D. spicata, p. 231 

 aa. Awned flower scale with tips prolonged into slender bristles. 



b. Awned scale, silky hairy. D. sericea, p. 231 



bb. Awned scale, glabrous. D. epilis, p. 232 



Danthonia spicata (L.).* Wild Oat Grass. 



PI. VIIL, Fig. 5. 



Avena spicata Linnssus, Sp. PI. 80. I7S3 [Pennsylvania]. 

 Danthonia spicata Knieskern 39. — Britton 291. 



Dry sandy ground ; common except in the Pine Barrens. 



Fl. — Late May to late June. 



Middle District.— 'Paimingdaie (S), New Egypt, Asbury. Medford (S), 

 Albion, Glassboro (S), Swedesboro, Riddleton, Husted (S), Centerton (S). 

 Pine Barrens. — Winslow, Speedwell (S). 

 Coast Strip.— Wtst Creek (S), Peermont (S). 

 Cape May.— Ca.pe May (OHB). 



Danthonia sericea Nutt. Siiky Wild Oat Grass. 



Danthonia sericea Nuttall, Gen. I. 71. 1818 [Carolina to Florida] .—Barton, 

 Fl. Phila. I. 65. 1818.— Willis 75.— Gray Manual Ed. V. 640. 1867.— 

 Britton 291. 



Danthonia glumosa Knieskern 39. 



Frequent in the Pine Barrens in dry sandy soil, and locally in 

 the lower part of the Middle district. 

 Fl. — Late May to late June. 



Middle District.— Spring Garden (NB), Lindenwold, Gibbsboro, Tomlin- 

 sons, Williamstown (KB), Sicklerville (S). 



* Specimens from within our limits referred to D. compressa and all refer- 

 able to D. spicata, so far as I have been able to examine them. 



