HITCHCOCK — PLANTS OF AMES, IOWA. 529 



Eragrostis hypnoides, (Lam.) B. S. P. Cat.— Poa hypnoides, 

 Lam. 111. i. — E. reptans, Nees, in Mart. Fl. Bras. i. 1829. 



Banks of streams ; common. 

 E. major, Host, Gram. iv. 1809.— Poa Eragrostis, L. Spec. 



Fields and roadsides; common. 

 E. Frankii, Meyer, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. ? 



River banks ; scarce. 

 E. Purshii, Schrad. in Linnsea, xii. 1838. 



River banks and roadsides ; common. 



E. pectinacea, (Michx.) Gray, Man. ed. of 1857 (or earlier?).— Poa 

 pectinacea, Micbx. Fl. 



"Amcs-Bessey." A young, unnamed specimen; but evidently it belongs here. 



Diarrhena diandra, (Miehx.).— Festuca diandra, Michx. Fl. 

 — D. Americana^ Beauv. Agrost. 1812. 

 Woods ; frequent. 



Dactylis glomerata, L. Spec. 



Pastures ; freely escaped from cultivation. 

 Poa compressa, L. Spec. 



Wet or dry soil; common. 



P. serotina, Ehr. Gaud. Agrost. i. 1811 (ex Kunth, Enum. i.) 



Wet places ; frequent. 

 P. pratensis, L. Spec. 



Pastures and meadows; common. 



Glyceria nervata, (Willd.) Trin. Act. Petrop. S. 6, i. 1831?.— Poa 



nervata, Willd. Spec. i. 

 Wet places; abundant. 



G. fluitans, (L.) R. Br. Prod. i. 1810.— Festuca Jtuitans, L. Spec. 

 Ponds and sloughs ; infrequent. 



Festuca octoflora, Walt. Fl.— F. tenella, Willd. Enum. i. 

 Dry hills : frequent. 



F. nutans, Willd. Enum. i. 



Upland woods ; abundant. 

 F. Shortii, Kunth, (?) Vasey, Descr. Cat. 1885. 

 Sloughs; rare. 



A small quantity found about 3 miles east of Ames. It seems quite distinct from 

 F. nutans. The spikelets are more numerous, the panicle more or less drooping 

 but the branches not reflexed in fruit as in the case of F. nutans. This appears in 

 Wood's Class-Book, edition of 1S61, p. 794, as F. Shortii, Kunth, and is placed un - 

 der F". nutans. 



Bromus Kaemii, Gray, Man. 1st ed. 



Dry ground; infrequent. 

 B. secalinus, L. Spec. 



Waste places ; scarce. 

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