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lower branches 0.3-1.3 dm. long, at first ascending, then divergent, 
finally deflexed, floriferous chiefly above the middle; pedicels sca- 
brous or smoothish: spikelets 4-5 mm. long, 4—6-flowered: Ist glume 
1 mm. long, l-nerved, ovate, acutish to obtuse, minutely erose-cilio- 
late; 2d 2 mm. long, broadly ovate, erose-ciliolate, 3-nerved, the lat- 
eral nerves short and faint: lemma 2-2.5 mm. long , broadly ovate, 
faintly 5-nerved, hyaline above, obtuse or aban with a few 
hairs at base: palea slightly shorter, ciliate in the upper half on the 
marginal nerves, truncate-emarginate and erose-ciliolate at apex: 
si seaadbe Poa Taba long: grain 1.4 mm. long — FI. Ital. i. 367 (1848); 
Watson & Coulter in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 668 (1890): Britton & Brown, 
Ill. TL i. 214 (1896). Poa distans L. Mant. i. 32 (1767). Glyceria 
Gnu Wahlenb. Fl. Ups. 36 (1820); Gray, Man. ed. 2, 560 (1856), 
o description. Festuca distans Kunth, Gram. i. 129 (1829). 
Selerochloa dostans Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. 370 (1843). Altropis distans 
Griseb. in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 388 (1853); Beal, Grasses Am. i. 572 
re Panicularia distans Scribner, Mem. Torr. Bot. Cl. v. 54 
94).— Eurasia and northern Africa; adventive and rapidly becom- 
naturalized in No ig America; less pronouncedly halophytic than 
most species. QuEBEC: damp magnesian gravel and mud about t the 
asbestos quarries, Black Lake, Megantic er August 26, 1915, 
Fernald & Jackson, no. 12,022. New Brunswick: _— ground, 
Pointe du Chéne, July 12, 1912, Bartram & Long, 6,919; St. 
a August, 1877, J. Fowler in herb. Phil. peoeg : gu marshes, 
wharves and roadsides, Rockland, August 22, 1909, Fernald, no. 
1,343. Massacnusetts: Oak Island, Revere (only 1 bunch), June 
15, 1908, G. G. Kennedy; Charlestown, June 5, 1880 and June, 1883, 
C. E. Perkins; Boston, June 28, 1879, Faxon; waste wet ground, 
South Boston, June 18, 1900, W. P. Rick: Sars North Adams, 
June 23 and 25, 1913, Fernald & Long, 5798. CONNECTICUT: 
borders of marshes , Orange, July 25, 1904 — June 20, 1899, C. H. 
Bissell; meadow on coast, in rather dry soil, Bridgeport, June 14, 
1912, E. H. Eames, no. 8,528. New York: on refuse from che mical 
works, flats along Onondaga bake Syracuse, July 13, 1915, Bissell, 
Ware & Weatherby. New Jersey: wet soil near edge of marsh, 
Cape May, May 27 on June 10, 1911, O. H. Brown in herb. Phil. 
Acad. Prennsytvanta: Navy Yard, Philadelphia, June 1, 1865, 
ton, June 4, 1897, A. Commons in herb. Phil. Acad. Nevapa: mead- 
ow near Sua "Washoe County, June 28, 1907, A. A. Heller, no. 
8,655 (distributed as P. ag _Glendale, Washoe County, 
June 28, 1907, P. B. Kennedy, n 
Var. tenuis (Uechtritz), n. fist gp Ae of the culm 2 mm. wide 
