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Spikelets 2 mm. long, panicle dense...................-.-------- L. S. myuros. 
Spikelets 3 mm. long, panicle often interrupted..................3. S. vilvoides. 
1. Sacciolepis myuros (Lam.) Chase, Proc. » Biol Soc. Wash. 21: 7. 1908. 
Panicum myuros Lam. Tabl. Encyel. 1: 172. 1791. 
Isle of Pines, Curtiss 428. 
2. Sacciolepis striata (LL.) Nash, Bull. Torr. Club 30: 383. 1903. 
Holcus striatus L. Sp. Pl. 1048. 1753. 
Panicum gibbum Ell. Bot. 8. C. & Ga. 1: 116. 1816. 
On tembladeros@ in lagunas, Pinar del Rio, December, Wright 3885. 
The Grisebach specimen is from Hanabana, May 25, 1865, numbered 198. A speci- 
men in the Gray Herbarium is numbered ‘*302=3885.”’ 
3. Sacciolepis vilvoides (Trin.) Chase, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 21: 7. 1908. 
Panicum vilvoides Trin. Gram. Pan. 171. 1826. 
Hymenachne fluviatilis Nees, Agrost. Bras. 273. 1829, 
In rivulets, Pinar del Rio, October, Wright 3470; Isle of Pines, Curtiss 304. 
This species is represented in the Grisebach Herbarium by a Wright specimen from 
western Cuba, 1863, numbered ‘'944=3470."’  Wright’s 3470 in the Gray Herbarium is 
labeled, ‘‘In lagunas, Los Almacigos, Nov. 23,’ and **On tembladeros? i in lagunas, 
Asiento viejo de San Julian, Nov. 30.”’ 
31. ECHINOCHLOA Beauv. Agrost. 53. pl. 11. f. 2. 1812. 
Sheaths hirsute..............-.---- cece eee eee ee eee eee eee eee eee 3. EH. waltert. 
Sheaths glabrous. 
Spikelets pointed but not awned................---+------+-+--+--- 1. E. colona. 
Spikelets awned..........--...--2 2520202020 e eee eee ee eee eee -2. KB. crusgalli. 
1. Echinochloa colona (L.) Link, Hort. Berol. 2: 209. 1833. 
Panicum colonum L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 870. 1759. 
Wright 752; Habana, Baker HC 1796, Leon 303, Palmer & Riley 1137; Santiago de 
las Vegas, Baker HC 502, 4765, [itchcock in 1906; Buena Vista, Shafer in 1903; Cerro, 
Shafer.180; Guanabacoa, Leon 117 in part; Cabanas, Palmer & Riley 756; Cienfuegos, 
Pringle 45; Combs 254 in Gray Herbarium; Guines, Leon 425. The following are in 
the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden: Isle of Pines, Curtiss 427; Matan- 
zas, Britton & Shafer 509; Cedro, Underwood & Earle 1620. 
In the Grisebach Herbarium there are two specimens, one from western Cuba, 
1863, ‘‘946=752,”’ the other numbered 27, collected in 1865. 
A specimen in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden from Matanzas, 
Rugel 884, is doubtfully referred to FE. colona. The spikelets have awns 2 to 3 mm. 
long. 
2. Echinochloa crusgalli (L..) Beauv. Agrost. 53. 1812. 
Panicum crusgalli L. Sp. Pl. 56. 1753. 
Santiago, Linden 1814 in Leipzig Herbarium; Rugel 889 in Grisebach Herbarium; 
Wright in 1865 in Grisebach Herbarium; Wright 53 of 1865 in Kew Herbarium; Isle of 
Pines, Curtiss in 1904 in Herb. N. Y. Bot, Gard.; Matanzas, Britton & Wilson 175 
in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. . 
3. Echinochloa walteri (Pursh) Nash in Britton, Man. 78. 1901. 
Panicum walteri Pursh, Fl. Sept. Amer. 1: 66. 1814. 
Low wooded swamps, Hanabana, May 27, Wright 3879; Wright 160 in Kew Her- 
barium. 
4Quaking bogs. 
