. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. Spartina stricta (Ait.) Roth. Smooth or Salt Marsh-grass. Fig. 542. Dactylis maritime, Walt. Fl. Car. 77. 1788. Not Curt. 1785. Dactylis stricta Ait. Hort. Kew. 1: 104. 1789. Spartina stricta Roth, Neue Beitr. 101. 1802. Spartina alterniflora Lois. Fl. Gall. 2: 719. 1807. Spartina glabra Muhl. Gram. 54. 1817. Spartina stricta alterniflora A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. Spartina stricta (Ait.) Roth. Smooth or Salt Marsh-grass. Fig. 542. Dactylis maritime, Walt. Fl. Car. 77. 1788. Not Curt. 1785. Dactylis stricta Ait. Hort. Kew. 1: 104. 1789. Spartina stricta Roth, Neue Beitr. 101. 1802. Spartina alterniflora Lois. Fl. Gall. 2: 719. 1807. Spartina glabra Muhl. Gram. 54. 1817. Spartina stricta alterniflora A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 552. 1856. Spartina stricta maritima Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club 5: 45- 1894. Culms i°-9° tall, erect, simple, smooth. Sheaths overlapping, those at the base shorter and looser, much crowded; ligule a ring of short hairs; blades up to 2° long, â 2"-'/' wide at the base, in- volute, at least when dry; spikes 3-5, erect or nearly so| i'-q! long, or slender and 3'-s' long; spikelets 6"-8" long, loosely to rather densely imbricated; empty scales acute or acutish, i-nerved, the first shorter than the second, which exceeds or equals the third which is glabrous or pubescent; palet longer than the third scale. Very variable. Common, in some one of its forms, along the coast from Maine to Florida and Texas. Also on the coast of Europe. Spart-grass, Twin Spike-grass, Low Creek-stuff. Creek-sedge or -thatch. 58. CAMPULOSUS Desv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 2: 189. 1810. [Ctenium Panzer, Deutsch. Akad. Muench. 1813: 288. pi. 13. 1814.] Tall pungent-tasted grasses, with flat or convolute narrow leaves and a curved spicate in- florescence. Spikelets borne pectinately in two rows on one side of the flat curved rachis, i-flowered. Lower 4 scales empty, the first very short, hyaline; the second, third, fourth and fifth awned on the back, the latter subtending a perfect flower and palet, the uppermost scales empty. Stamens 3. Styles distinct. Stigmas plumose. Grain oblon
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