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soil, in this region confined to the lower valleys of 

 Quaker run and Red House, where it is a character- 

 istic streamside grass, and in the Tunungwant and 

 Allegheny river valleys. Increasingly abundant 

 northward in the glaciated region. 

 Cinna arundinacea L. Sweet Reed Grass 



In moist woodlands and swamps, not found within 

 the park area but seen in the Tunungwant and Alle- 

 gheny valleys and in the swamps along the margin 

 of the glacial drift. 

 Cinna latifolia (Trev.) Griseb. Slender Reed Grass 



Frequent and widely distributed throughout the 

 wooded areas of the region, chiefly in moist or wet 

 ravines, stream banks and moist woods. 

 Holcus lanatus L. Velvet Grass 



Fields and roadsides, usually in moist rich soil. 

 Infrequent but spreading. 

 Avena sativa L. Cultivated Oat 



Sometimes springing up along woodland roads and 

 elsewhere, but not naturalized. 

 Danthonia compressa Austin. Flattened Wild Oat 

 Grass 

 In open woods, fields and banks, usually in rather 

 hard or poor soil. Frequent. 

 Danthonia spicata (L.) Beauv. Common Wild Oat 

 Grass 

 In dry, sterile soil of hillsides, clearings and old 

 fields, and in these situations the most abundant 

 grass of the park region. 

 Eragrostis peregrina Wiegand. Wandering Love Grass 

 A weed along the railroad near Quaker Bridge. 

 Native country unknown, see Rhodora 19:93. 1917, 

 and 21 :133, 1919. 



