CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 
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digenous. The Island forms appear for the most part to be 
indigenous northern and coast forms, and abound on beaches 
and on hanks by the shore. 
Var. glaucum (Desf.), Boiss. Triticum repens, L., var. inter¬ 
medium, Tries. 
A glaucous, rigid, maritime form, with large crowded spikelets 
and glumes blunt or mucronate. Seal Harbor (Kedfield) ; — 
Hortheast Harbor; Southwest Harbor, etc. (Hand). 
Var. pilosum, Scribner. 
Upper surface of leaves pilose, rhachis of spike pubescent 
hirsute, flowering glumes awnless or short cuspidate pointed. 
Southwest Harbor (Band). This, however, may he the same 
as var. agreste, Anders. 
Other well marked forms are numerous; but it seems impos¬ 
sible to identify them with any certainty without a careful 
comparison with authentic specimens in European herbaria. 
A. caninum (L.), Eoem. & Schultes. Triticum caninum, L. 
Bare. Field near the head of Northeast Harbor (Band).^^, 
Naturalized from Europe, and also indigenous. Probably intro¬ 
duced on the Island. 
HOBDEUM, L. Barley. 
H. jubatum, L. Sqdirkel-tail Grass. ^ P ^ tt - 
Common on the coast. 
ELYMUS, L. Wild Bye. Lyme Grass. 
E. Virginicus, L. A-a 'f 
Common on the coast. 
E. mollis, Trin. 
Muddy or sandy shores on the coast; frequent. Considered ^ 
by many authors as identical with JE. arenarius, L., which ^ 
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occurs on the Pacific coast. 
