Dune grass - principal hay of isl[and] apparently, looks like salt grass but has runners, and is covered with scale. Sporobolus virginicus. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]
Karolek Pattison and his sister Halka Pattison in the sand dunes on the way to the California for the summer. Photo taken by their mother, Marylka Modjeska Pattison. The family usually spent summers in California.