PI. end. ph. 
1. Viifa alba . 
10. GRAMINEiE. 88. Viifa. 115 
While bent. 
Culm creeping, branched, rooting ; panicle loose, spread- 
ing ; spathellules smooth, nearly equal, toothed, serrulate ; 
locustce lanceolate; leaves ft at, rough; sheaths smooth. 
Gramen miliaceum majus panicula spadicea, Rati Syn. 405, 11. 
Gramen miliaceum majus panicula viridi, Raii Syn. 404, 12. 
Agrostis alba, Lin. S. P. 93. ‘ 
Agrostis polymorpha seu palustris, IFuds. FI. Angl. 22. 
Marsh bent grass. While Squitch. Squitch. 
Marshes and woods ; perennial; July. 
Root creeping, thick, white; culm naked above, 3 feet 
high, smooth ; ligula obtuse. 
|3. conferta. Short ; peduncles crowded at bottom, long, 
naked, not branched ; both spathelles serrated on the back. 
7 . ramosa. Short ; peduncles crowded at bottom, long, 
naked, branched ; upper half only of the inner spatheile 
serrated. 
nuda. Peduncles all naked at bottom, and branched ; 
upper half only of the inner spatheile serrated. 
£. sylvatica. Glumes and glumelles growing longer after 
flowering ; lower branch of the panicle naked at bottom. 
Gramen miliaceum sylvestre glumis oblongis, Raii Syn. 404, 13. 
Agrostis sylvatica, Lin. S. P. 1665. 
Agrostis polymorpha 77 , Iluds. FI. Angl. 32. 
2. Viifa nigra. Black bent. 
Stolones creeping, branchy ; culm upright ; panicle scat- 
tered, fewflowered ; locustce lanceolate ; peduncles bare at 
bottom ; spathelles unequal ; upper part of the lower spa- 
thelle serrulate ; upper spatheile smooth ; leaves nearly 
smooth, slender; sheaths smooth. 
Agrostis nigra, With. Bot. Arr. 173. 
Agrostis stolonifera, Leers Herb. 26 ; not of Linnaeus. 
Black squitch. 
Woods and moist places; perennial; July. 
Culms many, slender, 2 feet high ; leaves flat, weak ; ligulcz 
blunt; panicle 2 to 4 in. long; peduncles deep purple; locustce 
brown, scattered. 
3. Viifa stolonifera. Running bent. 
Culm creeping, taking root, branchy ; panicle compact, 
lower branches spreading, densely crowded at bottom with 
flowers ; locustce ovate, lanceolate ; spathelles nearly equal, 
pubescent; lower spatheile serrulated at the upper part; 
leaves flat. 
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