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Figure 659.— Distribution of 

 A grostis verticiUata. 



8. Agrostis palustris Huds. Creeping bent. (Fig. 662.) Dif- 

 fering from A. stolonifera chiefly in the long stolons, the narrow stiff 

 appressed blades, and the condensed (some- 

 times somewhat open) panicle. % (A. mari- 

 tima Lam.) — Marshes along the coast, from 



Newfound- 

 land to Mary- 

 land; British 

 Columbia to 

 northern Cali- 

 fornia ; some- 

 times occupy- 

 ing extensive 

 areas, as at 

 Coos Bay, 

 Or eg. ; intro- 

 duced at vari- 

 ous places in 

 the interior of 

 southern Can- 

 ada and northern United States and occasionally as far south as Texas 

 and New Mexico, especially along ditches (fig. 663); Eurasia. Forms 

 of this species, known as seaside, 

 Coos Bay, and Cocoos bents (prop- 

 agated by seed), and Metropolitan 

 and Washington bents (propagated 

 by stolons, and formerly called car- 



Figure 660.— Agrostis stolonifera. Panicle, X 1; 

 floret, X 5. (Hitchcock 23899, Newf.) 



Figure 661.— Distribution of 

 Agrostis stolonifera. 



Figure 662.— Agrostis palustris. Plant, X 1; glumes 

 and floret, X 5. (Hitchcock 11713, Wash.) 



Figure 664.— Agrostis nigra. Plant, X 1; floret, 5. 

 (Moore 47, cult. Mo. Bot. Gard.) 



pet bent), are used for lawns and extensively for putting greens. 



9. Agrostis nigra With. Black bent. 

 (Fig. 664.) Culms long-decumbent at base, 

 also with rather stout leafy stolons, the fertile 

 branches ascending or erect, 20 to 30 cm tall; 

 ligule as in A. alba; panicle brown, open as in A. 

 alba, but on the average more condensed along 

 the branches, the base usually partly included. 

 % — Sometimes found mixed with " South 

 German" bent (creeping bent), hence may 



be a constituent of lawns grown from imported seed; Europe. 



Figure 663.— Distribution of 

 Agrostis palustris. 



