214 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
ERAGROSTIS. 
E. capillaris (L.) Nees. — Sandy fields and roadsides; frequent in 
Great Harrington and Sheffield. 
E. CILIANENSIS (All.) Link. — {E. megastachya Man. ed. 7; vid. 
Rhodora, 18: 235, 1916. E. major 111. Fl. ed. 2.) 
Waste places, Pittsfield; Stockbridge. 
E. Frankii (Fiscli., Mey., & Lall.) Steud. — A single plant found in 
Sheffield. Specimen in the herbarium of Mr. Walter Deane. 
E. hypnoides (Lam.) BSP. — Shore of Pontoosuc Lake, Lanes- 
boro (Churchill) ; frequent on muddy shores of Housatonic River in 
Sheffield (Walters). 
E. MINOR Host. — Along railroad track, W^ashington. 
E. pectinacea (Michx.) Steud. Sandy fields; common in Sheffield, 
frequent elsewhere in the valley. 
E. PEREGRiNA Wiegand. — Along railroad track, Lee. Determined 
by Mr. Bayard Long. 
Distinguished from E. yilosa and E. Purshii by the absence of 
auricular hairs on the upper sheaths, by the densely-flowered panicle, 
bearing a great number of ovate or ovate-oblong spikelets, and by the 
very short pedicels of the spikelets {vid. Rhodora, 19: 93, 1917, and 
21: 133, 1919). 
E. Purshii Schrad. — {E. pilosa Man. ed. 7 in part.) 
Along paths and in w^aste places; occasional. Williamstown 
(Churchill); Washington; Pittsfield; Lee; Stockbridge; Sheffield 
(Walters). 
" E. pilosa has essentially smooth empty glumes w^hile a scabrous 
keel seems to be a very excellent index of E. Purshii," Bayard Long in 
Rhodora, 21: 137 (1919). 
FESTUCA. Fescue Grass. 
F. CAPiLLATA Lam. — {F. ovina, var. capillata Man. ed. 7; vid. 
Rhodora, 18: 235, 1916.) 
Roadsides; occasional. Becket; New Boston. On rocky summit 
of Monument Mt., Great Barrington; moist bank, Sheffield. 
F. ELATiOR L. Meadow Fescue. — Meadows and roadsides; 
common. 
F. nutans Spreng. — Rocky woods and moist thickets; common. 
Not noted on the plateau. 
