18 Rhodora [JANUARY 
Ai: -P: paupercula (Holm), n. comb. Fics. wee Densely cae- 
5 mm. long, 2-5-flowered: 1st glume 1-1.5 mm. ad 1-nerved, 
obtuse or acutish, entire; 2d 2-2.5 mm. long, 3-nerved, entire or ob- 
scurely dentate, tapering to a blunt apex: lemmas 2-2.5 mm. long, 
5-nerved, tapering to a blunt apex, entire, minutely pubescent at 
base: palea about equaling the lemma, linear-lanceolate, truncate 
or somewhat bidentate at apex, slightly tinny on the nerves above: 
anthers 0.5-0.7 mm. long: gr ain about 2 mm. long.— P. maritima, 
var. (?) minor Watson in Gray, Man. ed. “i 668 (1890), as to descrip- 
tion ye Labrador plant. Glyceria paupercula Holm in Fedde, 
Repert. Spec. Nov. iii. 337 (1907).— Coasts of Labrador, Keewatin, 
entonadishd nd Quebec.—Laprapor: Mansfield Island, 1884, 
R. Bell in herb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 34,782 (ryPE of the species); 
Hopedale, August 4-6, 1897, J. D. Sornborger, no.'238 isan Gane 
to var. alaskana); dry rocks, Battle Harbor, August 6, 1911, C. 
Williamson, no. in herb. Phil. Acad.; on rocks by the sea, 
pea eS July 30, 1910, Fernald & Wieg and, no. 2,616. KEE- 
n Inlet, lat. 62° 45’, August 30, 1910, J. M. Macoun, 
emia Geol. Surv: Can. nos. 79,116, 79,117. NEWFOUNDLAND: grav- 
elly beach, Norris Arm, August 21, 1911, Fernald & W iegand, no. 
4,657; forming extensive turf-areas, salt marsh, Killigrew’s, August 3, 
1911, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 4,656. QueBec: Salmon Bay, “ Lab- 
rador,” July 28, 1882, J. A. Allen (type of P. maritima, var. (?) minor) ; 
salt marsh, Ile du Petit Rigolet, Archipel de Kécarponi, Saguenay 
County, August 10, 1915, St. John, herb. Geol. Surv. Can.; rocky 
beach, Pointe au Maurier, Charnay, Saguenay County, July 16 ore 
August 24, 1915, St. John, herb. Geol. Surv . Can.; strand, Vieille 
Romaine, ‘Archipel Ouapitagone, Saguenay County, July 13, as 
St. John, herb. Geol. Surv. Can.; salt water at mouth of Matan 
River, Matane County, August 6, 1904, F. F. Forbes. Mac DALEW 
SLANDS: forming turf on mere! saline shore, Basin Island, July 20, 
1912, Fernald, Bartram, ary & St. John, no. 6,914 
Var. alaskana (Scribn 8 Merrill) n. comb. Figs. 68-72. Usually 
larger throughout, casita stoloniferous; culms 0.5-4.5 dm. high: 
leaves up to 1.2 dm. long and 2 mm. broad; ligule about 2 mm. long: 
panicle 6. 2-1.8 dm. long, the lower branches ascending or spreading, 
; m. 
long: anther 0.8-1 mm. long; grain 1.7-2.1 mm. long, readily 
separating from the palea; stolons flagelliform, resembling those of 
P. phryganodes, rarely developed at flowering season.— . alaskana 
Scribn. & Merrill, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. xiii. 78 (1910). P. mari- 
tima, var. (?) minor, Watson in Gray Man. ed. 6, 668 (1890), as to Mt. 
