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Eragrofltis pallida sp. nov. Apparently annual ; culms erect, more or less branched 

 at the base, 1^ feet high, smooth; leaves 2 or 3 ou the culm, 3 to 5 inches long^ 

 erect, acuminate ; ligule iaconapicuous, truncate ; sheaths shorter than the ia- 

 ternodes ; panicle 6 to 9 inches long, i to 4 inch wide, pale, strict, sometimes 

 interrupted below, crowded above; branches unequal, semiverticillate, num- 

 erous, the longer 1^ inches long, strict, all closely flowered to the base ; spikelets 

 1 line long, 5-Howered; empty glumes less than i line long, l-nerved, subacute; 

 floral glumes i line long, subacute, 3-ncrved. 



Collected in a ditch at Colima, January 9 to February 6, 1891 (No. 1268), by 

 Dr. Edward Palmer. At first I thought this might be E. alba Presl., but it 

 does not answer the description; neither does the Californian species, bo called 

 by Dr. Thurber, which is quite ditferent from the present species. 

 Eragrostis diversiflora sp. nov. Culms densely tufted, 2 to 8 feet high, firm, 

 leafy at the base, lower leaves 6 to 8 inches long, gradually narrowed to long, 

 setaceous points; sheaths smooth; ligule ciliate with long hairs; upper leaves 

 distant, filiform; panicle spike-like, interrupted below, 7 to 10 inches long, f 

 inch wide, the nearly sessile branches densely crowded, interrupted and distant 

 below, also on the same plant some panicles open and thinly flowered; spike- 

 lets linear, 3 to 4 inches long, 7- to 13- flowered or on less perfect culms re- 

 duced to 5, 3, or 2; outer glumes ovate, subacute, similar in texture to the floral 

 glumes, which are ovate-lanceolate, rather thick, subobtuse, smooth, the lateral 

 nerves not prominent. 



Collected at Manzanillo (No. 1335) by Dr. Edward Falmer, March 2 to 18, 

 1891. Here should be xeferxed W. Q. Wright's No. 1318, from Mazatlan, 1889. 



