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flowers twice the length. Wet places, Pennsylvania 

 to Maine. Rather rare. 



9. G- Maratima (Goose Grass, Greeping Sea Mead- 

 ow Grass, Sea Spear Grass).- Grows natnrally near 

 the see, and is relished by stock of all kinds. 



10. G. Distans (Clustered Spear or Reflexed 

 Meadow Grass). Similar to goose grass, but of less 

 value. 



33. BRIZOPYRUM— Link. Spike Grass. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Spikelets and numerous flours compressed, crowd- 

 ed in a densely spiked or capitate panicle. Glumes 

 herbaceous or membranaoeaus ; the lower faintly 

 many-nerved. Lower palet rather coriaceous, later- 

 ally much flattened, indistinctly many -nerved, acute. 

 Ovary stalked. Flowers dioecious, pretty large. 

 Leaves crowded on the culms, involute, commonly 

 rigid. 



Name compounded of briza, the quaking grass, 

 and pjros, wheat. 



1. B. Spicatum (Spike Grass). A salt marsh grass, 

 with creeping rootstocks ; stems from 10 to 18 inches 

 high, in tufts. Flowers in Angust. 



