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Tribe 5. Chloridcac 



32. Eleusine Gaertn. 

 1. E. indica (L.) Gaertn. Goose Grass. 



Lawns and waste places ; scarce. Aug.-Sept. 



C. U. campus, main quadrangle, 1914 (F. P. Metcalf) ; Eddy St., Ithaca, 1916 

 (F. P. Metcalf), and Green St., 1918 (A. J. E.) ; Percy Field, 1908 (collector 

 unknown). 



Mass. to n. 111., Kans., and Calif., southw. to tropical Am. Adventive from the 

 Tropics of the Old World. 



[Beckmannia Host] 



[B. ERUCAEFORMIS (L.) Host. 



N. end of drainage canal near the Ithaca fair grounds, 1918. Adventive from 

 farther west, but doubtfully established. 

 Minn, and Iowa to Alaska, Colo., and Calif.] 



33. Spartina Schreb. 



1. S. Michauxiana Hitchc. (S. cynosuroides of Cayuga Fl.) Cord Grass. 



Low grounds, in silty, sandy, or gravelly soils, usually with at least a trace of salt; 

 scarce. July-Oct. 



Farley Point, a few (D.) ; rather abundant on the Cayuga Marshes n. of Black 

 Lake (£>.) ; Salt Pond w. of Howland Island. 



Newf. to Sask., southw. to N. J., Tex., and Colo. Primarily a plant of the coast. 



Tribe 6. Phalaridcae 

 34. Hierochloe (Gmel.) R. Br. 



1. H. odorata (L.) Wahl., var. fragrans (Willd.) Richter. (See Rhodora 19:152. 

 1917.) Vanilla Grass. Sweet Grass. 



Calcareous marshy meadows on the Ontario plain, perhaps within the influence of 

 salt springs; rare. May 15-June. 



Crusoe Prairie, n. of Crusoe Lake, 1916 (F. P. Metcalf, L. Griscom, & A. H. 

 Wright). 



Along the coast, Newf. to N. J.; also inland from N. Y. through the Great 

 Lakes region to Iowa and Colo. 



35. Anthoxanthum L. 

 1. A. odoratum L. Sweet Vernal Grass. 



Dry fields and roadsides, in gravelly, rather sterile, often acid, soils ; frequent. 

 May 15-June. 



Generally distributed and often abundant on the hills s. and e. of Ithaca and in 

 the McLean district; rare or absent on the clays and richer heavy soils about Ithaca 

 and northw. 



Nearly throughout N. A., but especially eastw. Naturalized from Eu. 



36. Phalaris L. 

 a. Empty glumes wing-keeled ; panicle oval, very dense. [P. canaricnsis] 



a. Empty glumes not wing-keeled ; panicle longer, composed of glomerules, open in 

 an thesis. 

 b. Leaves wholly green. 1. P. arundinacea 



b. Leaves striped with white. la. P. a., var. picta 



