10 Rhodora [JANUARY 
F. Borreri Bab. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 565 (1837). Glyceria Borrert 
Bab. in Engl. Bot. Suppl. iii. t. 2797 (1837). G. distans Gray, Man. ed. 
y. 
Wood, Class-book, - of 1877, 799 (1877), at least i in part. Scleroch- 
loa Borreri Bab. n. Brit. Bot. 370 (1843). S. arenaria, var. fasci- 
neue? Gray, Man. “304 (1848). Atropis Borreri Richter, Pl. Eur. i. 
2 (1890).— Coasts of Europe; Massachusetts to Delaware, indige- 
radi and sometimes adventive from Europe; Utah. Massacuu- 
SETTS: salt marshes, Massachusetts, C’. Pickering in herb. Phil. Acad.; 
Plum Island, Newbury, Oakes; rita se Brant Point, N antucket, 
June 22, 1909, N. F. Flynn in herb. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. RHODE 
IsLaNnD: salt marsh, East foneeo vias 30, 1911, K. M. Wiegand, 
no. 931; Wickford, June 17, 1908, G. G. Ken nedy, E. F. Williams. 
Connecticut: sandy place by salt marsh, West Haven, June 23, 
1912, A. E. Blewitt, no. 339; edge of salt marsh, Woodmont, June 13, 
1908, Eames & Godfrey, no. 5.922 ; salt marsh coated with sand, 
Orange, June 23, 1912, C. H. Bissell; moist sand bordering salt 
marsh, Stratford, June 12, 1908, E. H. Eames, no. 5,915, July 6, 1912, 
A. E. Blewitt, no. 355; ‘sandy shores of Cedar Creek, Bridgeport, 
June 29, 1899, Eames; sandy border of salt meadows, within tidal 
coast, Nuttall; coast, August, 1833, A. Gray; Hoboken, Thurber; 
Somer’s Point, June, 1865, C. E. Smith in herb. Phil. Acad.; salt 
marsh, Cape May, May-July, A. H. Smith et al. in herb. Phil. Acad.; 
Swedesboro, June 2, 1895, C. D. Lippencott in herb. Phil. Acad.; 
sie (various stations), L eidy et al. in herb. Phil. Acad. Derta- 
AR , Nuttall in herb. Phil Acad.; Cape Henlopen, A. H. 
Smith i in herb. Phil. Ac a salt marshes, Woodland Beach, June 30, 
1898, A. Commons in herb. Phil. Acad. Uran: Hot Springs, June 19, 
1908, Mrs. Joseph Clemens (distributed as Agrostis stolonifera). : 
Though occasionally found on ballast and there presumably a recent 
introduction from Europe, P. fasciculata is clearly indigenous upon our 
coast as well as in Europe. Its status in Utah is yet to be determined, 
but there it is probably a recent introduction. 
4. P. rupestris (With.), n. swe Pbenss 17-22. Resembling 
P. fasciculata; the decumbent culms 1-4.2 dm. high: leaves 2.5-6 mm. 
wide, flat: panicle ellipsoid, glaucous, ee em. long; the branches stiff 
and approximate, 1-2.5 em. long, closely flowered nearly to base, 
distichous, scabrous: spikelets 5-8 mm. long, 3-5-flowered: 1st glume 
1.5-2 mm. long, ovate, acutish, 3-nerved; the midnerve scabrous: 
2d glume 2-2.5 mm. long, oval, obtuse, 3-nerved, hyaline and erose- 
serrulate above: lemma 3-3.5 mm. ong, ovate, obtuse, thick 
except at the narrow hyaline summit, essentially entire or minutely 
