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Eragrostis pectinacea, Gray, var. spectabilis. (Gray’s Manual). 
Topsfield, Newburyport, Ballardvale (J. H. Sears). Scarce. 
Briza media, LZ. (QuUAKING GRass.) 
Danvers (Oakes) ; Peabody, Boxford, Salem Great Pastures. Scarce. 
(Adv. from Eu.) 
Festuca tenella, Willd. 
Ship Rock, Peabody (memo. Rev. J. L. Russell); Pigeon Cove; 
East Haverhill (Rock’s Village). Scarce. 
Festuca ovina, Z. (SHEEp’s Fescurz.) Var. duriuscula. 
The most common form. 
Var. rubra (Gray’s Manual). 
Plum Island (Oakes). 
Festuca elatior, Z. (Mapow FEScvr.) 
Very common and quite variable. (Nat. from Eu.) 
Festuca nutans, Willd. 
Boxford, Danvers (J. H. Sears.) Scarce. 
Bromus secalinus, Z. (CuHEatT; CHEss.) 
Beverly, Danvers, Ipswich, etc. Frequent. Var. (awnless), Ipswich 
(Oakes). (Adv. from Eu.) 
Bromus mollis, Z. (Sorr CHEss.) 
Among other species in a grass-plat in Salem. (Adv. from Eu.) 
Bromus racemosus, 2. (UpPriGHT CHESS.) 
Essex County (Oakes), West Gloucester, Salem, etc. Scarce. 
(Adv. from Eu.) 
Bromus ciliatus, L. 
Ipswich (Oakes), Wenham, Salem, Beverly, etc. More abundant 
than the last. 
Phragmites communis, Trin. 
In the vicinity of Topsfield. Probably introduced in this locality. 
Lolium perenne, Z. (CoMMON DaRNET. ) 
West Newbury (W. P. Conant); Salem, etc. Not very common. 
(Nat. from Eu.) 
Lolium temulentum, L. 
‘*In old barley fields and gathered with it” (Oakes, Hovey’s Mag., 
Vol. VII). ‘‘ Grain noxious; almost the only instance of the kind 
among grasses” (Gray’s Manual.) (Adv. from Eu.) 
Triticum vulgare, Z. (WuHEatT.) 
Found growing on wharves and railroad track-beds near Salem and 
Newburyport. (Escaped.) 
Triticum repens, LZ. (Coucn-Grass; QuicK-GRASs.) 
Everywhere common and variable. 
