MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES bla Le 
1. Spartina patens (Ait.) Muhl., Descr. Gram. 55. 1817. 
SALTMEADOW SORDGRASS. 
Dactylis patens Ait., Hort. Kew. 1: 104. 1789. 
Trachynotia juncea Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 64. 1803. South 
Carolina. 
Spartina juncea Willd., Enum. Pl. 81. 1809. 
FIGURE 74.—Cynodon dactylon. Plant, X 14; spikelet and two views of floret, X 5 (Kearney). 
Spartina patens var. juncea Hitche., Rhodora 8: 210. 1906. 
Culms erect, usually 1 m or more tall, tough and wiry, with stout 
scaly creeping rhizomes; blades involute, extending into a long fine 
point; spikes mostly 2 to 8, ascending or spreading, 4 to 6 em long; 
spikelets closely imbricate, 6 to 8 mm long, the second glume scabrous 
on the keel (fig. 75). 
