CATALOGUE OF THE GRASSES OF CUBA. 
By A. 5. Hirencocx. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The following list of Cuban grasses is based primarily upon the 
collections at the Estacién Central Agronémica de Cuba, situated at 
Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Habana. The herbarium includes 
the collections made by the members of the staff, particularly Mr. 
C. F. Baker, formerly head of the department of botany, and also the 
Sauvalle Herbarium deposited by the Habana Academy of Sciences. 
These specimens were examined by the writer during a short stay 
upon the island in the spring of 1906, and were later kindly loaned by 
the station authorities for a more critical study at Washington. The 
Sauvalle Herbarium contains a fairly complete set of the grasses col- 
lected by Charles Wright, the most important collection thus far 
obtained from Cuba. In addition to the collections at the Cuba 
Experiment Station, the National Herbarium furnished important 
material for study, including collections made by A. H. Curtiss, 
W. Palmer and J. H. Riley, A. Taylor (from the Isle of Pines), S. M. 
Tracy, Brother Leon (De la Salle College, Habana), and the writer. 
The earlier collections of Wright were sent to Grisebach for study. 
These were reported upon by Grisebach in his work entitled “Cata- 
logus Plantarum Cubensium,”’ published in 1866, though preliminary 
reports appeared earlier in the two parts of Plantae Wrightianae.¢ 
During the spring of 1907 I had the opportunity of examining the 
grasses in the herbarium of Grisebach in Géttingen.’ In the present 
article I have, with few exceptions, accounted for the grasses listed by 
Grisebach in his catalogue of Cuban plants, and have appended a list of 
these with references to the pages in the body of this article upon 
which the species are considered. The numbers upon the labels of 
the Wright specimens in the Grisebach Herbarium are in many cases 
not the same as those under which the species were afterwards dis- 
tributed and under which they were listed in the catalogue. These 
numbers I have designated as secondary numbers. Grisebach has 
sometimes connected on his labels the secondary number by the sign 
#Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. Vol. VIII. Part I, pp. 153 to 192, (as separate) 1860; 
Part II, pp. 503 to 536, (as separate) 1862. The grasses were included in Part IT. 
6 Unless otherwise stated the writer has examined all the types mentioned in this 
paper. 
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