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Eragrostis pectinacea, Gray, var. spectabilis. (Gray's Manual). 

 Topsfleld, Newburyport, Ballardvale (J. H. Sears). Scarce. 



Briza media, L. (Quaking Grass.) 

 Danvers (Oakes) ; Peabody, Boxford, Salem Great Pastures. Scarce. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) 



Pestuca tenella, WilU. 



Ship Rock, Peabody (memo. Eev. J. L. Russell) ; Pigeon Cove ; 



East HaverhiU (Rock's Village). Scarce. 

 Festuca ovina, L. (Sheep's Fescue.) Var. durluscula. 



The most common form. 

 Var. rubra (Gray's Manual). 



Plum Island (Oakes). 

 restuca elatior, L. (Meadow Fescue.) 



Very common and quite variable. (Nat. from Eu.) 

 Festuoa nutans, Willd. 



Boxford, Danvers (J. H. Sears.) Scarce. 



Bromus seoalinus, i. (Cheat; Chess.) 



Beverly, Danvers, Ipswich, etc. Frequent. Var. (awnless), Ipswich 



(Oakes). (Adv. from En.) 

 Bromus mollis, L. (Soft Chess.) 



Among other species in a grass-plat in Salem. (Adv. from Eu.)^ 

 Bromus racemosus, L. (TJpkight Chess.) 



Essex County (Oakes), West Gloucester, Salem, etc. Scarce, 



(Adv. from Eu.) ; ' j' ' 



Bromus ciliatus, L. \ 



Ipswich (Oakes), "Wenham, Salem, Beverly, etc. More abundant 



than the last. 



Phragmites communis, Trin. 

 In the vicinity of Topsfleld. Probably introduced in this locality. 



IiOlium perenne, L. (Common Darnel.) 

 West Newbury (W. P. Conant) ; Salem, etc. Not very common. 

 (Nat. from Eu.) ' 



Lolium temulentum, L. ' 



"In old barley fields and gathered with it" (Oakes, Hovey's Mag., 

 Vol. VII). " Grain noxious ; almost the only instance of the kind 

 among grasses " (Gray's Manual.) (Adv. from Eu.) 



Triticum vulgare, L. (Wheat.) 



Found growing on wharves and railroad track-beds near Salem and 



Newburyport. (Escaped.) 

 Triticum repens, L. (Couch-Grass ; Quick-Grass.) 



Everywhere common and variable. 



