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Figure 85. — Puccinellia "pumila. Plant, X 1; floret, 

 X 10. (Type.) 



cumbent base, 10 to 30 cm. tall; 

 blades rather soft, mostly flat, 1 to 

 2 mm. wide; panicle pyramidal, open, 

 mostly 5 to 10 cm. long, the lower 

 branches naked below, usually finally 

 spreading or even reflexed; spikelets 

 4- to 6-flowered; glumes 1.5 and 2.5 

 mm. long; lemmas 3 to 4 mm. long, 

 rather broad, narrowed toward the 

 obtuse nearly entire apex, obscurely 

 pubescent near base or glabrous; 



anthers 0.8 to 1 mm. long. % — 

 Salt marshes and shores, Labrador 

 to Connecticut; Alaska to Oregon. 



10. Puccinellia grandis Swallen. 

 (Fig. 86.) Culms densely tufted, 50 

 to 90 cm. tall; sheaths glabrous; 

 ligule 2 to 3 mm. long; blades firm, 

 drying involute, 2 to 3.5 mm. wide, 

 panicles 10 to 20 cm. long, pyramidal, 

 the scabrous branches finally spread- 

 ing; spikelets 8 to 15 mm. long, 5- 

 to 12-flowered, appressed; lemmas 3 

 to 4 mm. long, obtuse or subacute, 

 sparsely pilose at the base; anthers 

 1.3 to 1.5 mm. long. % — Sea 

 beaches, Alaska to central California. 

 This species has been referred to P. 

 nutkaensis (Presl) Fern, and Weath., 

 a northern species, not known from 

 the United States. 



Figure 86. — Puccinellia grandis. Panicle, X 1; floret, 

 X 10. (Macoun 66, Br. Col.) 



7. GLYCfiRIA R. Br. Mannagrass 



(Panicularia Heist.) 



Spikelets few- to many-flowered, subterete or slightly compressed, the 

 rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets; glumes un- 



