1916] Fernald & Weatherby,— Puccinellia 7 
long, thick, somewhat coriaceous, 5-nerved, minutely serrulate, 
obtuse or tapering abruptly to a blunt apex; midnerve prolonged to 
the x ia and with the lateral nerves pubescent below: alea 3.2-3.7 
ong, lanceolate, tapering to a bidentate tip, ciliate on the nerves; 
the cilia longest below: anther 1.5-2.2 mm. long: grain 2-2.2 mm 
long: repent stolons coarse, rigid, often prolonged to fy dm., devel- 
oped chiefly from late summer to spring.— FI. Ital. i. 370 (1848); 
a (18 2 
Ill. Fl. i. 214 (1896). Poa maritima Huds. FI. Ang. 35 (1762); Eaton, 
Man. Bot. North. States, ed. 2, 366 (1818); Bigelow, Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 
- 34 (1824); Torrey, Fl. North. U. S. i. 108 08 (1824); Beck, Bot. U. S., 
409 (1833); Wood, Class-book, 447 (1845). Glyceria maritima 
Wahlenb. Fl. Gothob. 17 (1820), fide Aschers. & Graebn. Syn. Mit- 
teleur. Fl. ii. Abt. 1, 460; Mert. & Koch in Rohling, Deutschl. Fl. 
i. 588 (1823); Gray, Man. ed. 2, 560 (1856); Wood, Class-book, 
ed. of 1877, 799 (1877). Sclerochloa arenaria, var. maritima Gray, 
Man. 594 (1848). Diachroa maritima Nutt. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, 
(1894).— Coast of Europe; salt marshes and saline or brackish shores, 
Nova Scotia; and southern Maine to Pennsylvania. Nova Scotia: 
Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, August 18, 1898, J. Macoun, herb. 
Geol. Surv. Can. no. 21,056; saline marshes, Annapolis, June 26 ~~ 
27, 1883 Ae Macoun, hoch, Geol. Surv. Can. no 082. MAIN 
salt marsh, Cumberland Foreside, July 6, 1906, E. B. Chambirloia. 
no. 825; brackish shore, Great Chebeague Island, Casco Bay, July 2, 
1909, Fernald, no. 1,346; 7 marsh, Pine Point, Scarboro, June 30, 
1909, Fernald, nos. 1,344, 1,345; Ocean Park, Old Orchard, July 1, 
1901, Kate Furbish; salt marsh, Wells Beach, July 14, 1894, J. C. 
Parlin, 1898, Kate Furbish; sandy shore, Kittery, July 13, 1891, 
Fernald, July 3, 1903, W. P. Rich. New Hampsurre: Rye, June 14, 
1903, E. F. Williams, B. L. Robinson, no. sa marsh at Hampton 
Beach, June 23, 1896, A. A. Eaton. Massacuusetts: coast of Essex 
County , Oakes; in sand, Plum Island, Newbury, July, 1890, Raynal 
Daiae June 25, 1912, A. S. Pease, no. 13,672; salt marsh back of dunes, 
Ipswich, July 13, 1913, F. T. Hubbard, no. 642; salt marsh, West 
Manchester, June 20, 1913, F. T. Hubbard, no. B77: Beverly, June 15, 
1846, J. A. Towa; in herb. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist . Medford, June 23, 
1879, C. E. Perkins; Somerville, June 11, 1879, LE Perkins, July 
12, 1887, F. S. Collins; salt marshes along the Charles River, Cam- 
bridge, Nuttall et al.; salt marshes and sandy embankments, Revere, 
. A. Young et al.; salt marsh and mill pond, Charlestown, June 5 
1889 and June 19, 1883, C. E. Perkins; Boston, Faxon et al.; Soldier’ 5 
sam Brighton, June 11, 1902, A. S. Pease, no. 1,712; Dorchester, 
June 5, 1865, G. G. Kennedy, ‘June 12, 1887, J. R. Churchill; salt 
marsh, North Scituate, July 3, 1899, G. G. Kennedy; near high-tide 
mark, Arey’s Pond, Orleans, August 10, 1913, J. Murdoch, jr., no. 
