74 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
especially along the keel, usually connate at the base; lemma obtuse, hyaline, usually 
awned on the back, the margins connate near the base, forming a short tube; palea 
none; stamens 3; styles usually distinct. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Spikelets about 3 mm. long; lemma shorter than the glumes....... 1. A. aristulatus. 
Spikelets 6 to 7 mm. long; lemma longer than the glumes. ........ 2. A, agrestis. 
1. Alopecurus aristulatus Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer, 1: 43. 1803. 
Alopecurus geniculatus aristulatus Torr. Fl. North & Mid. U. 8. 1: 97. 1824. 
Type Locauity: ‘Hab. in paludosis Canadae.”” 
RanGeE: British America to California, New Mexico, and Florida. 
New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Cedar Hill; Chama; Ramah; Gallo Spring; 
Taos; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Mogollon Mountains; Rio Mimbres; White 
and Sacramento mountains. Wet soil, often about the edge of water, in the Transi- 
tion Zone. 
2. Alopecurus agrestis L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 89. 1762. SLENDER FOXTAIL. 
Type Locauity: “Habitat in Europa australi.”’ 
Range: Native of Europe and Asia; introduced in many places in the United 
States. ; 
New Mexico: Agricultural College (Cockerell). 
80. EPICAMPES Pres. 
Tall perennials with very long spikelike many-flowered panicles; spikelets small, 
1-flowered; glumes membranaceous, slightly unequal, convex on the back, carinate, 
often finely 3-nerved; lemmas 3-nerved, obtuse or emarginate, a little shorter than 
or about equaling the glumes, tipped with a slender, usually short awn; stamens 3; 
styles short, distinct; grain included within the lemmas, free. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Inflorescence spikelike ... 2.2.0.0... 000 c ee cece ee cece eee 1. E. rigens. 
Inflorescence paniculate ..........2.....20..00 000022222 e eee eee eee 2. E, stricta. 
1. Epicampes rigens Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 19: 88. 1881. 
Type Locauiry: California. 
RanGe: Western Texas to Arizona and southward. 
New Mexico: Berendo Creek; Mogollon Creek; Mangas Springs; Deming. Dry 
hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
2. Epicampes stricta Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 235. pl. 39, 1830. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico. 
Ranee: Western Texas to southern Arizona and southward. 
New Mexico: West Fork of the Gila; Crawfords Ranch; Silver City; near White 
Water; Socorro; Organ Mountains. Dry hills and canyons, in the Upper Sonoran 
Zone. 
381. BLEPHARONEURON Nash. 
Tufted perennial with flat leaves and loosely flowered open panicles; spikelets 
1-flowered; glumes 1-nerved, glabrous, the second about as long as the lemma, this 
3-nerved, the nerves densely pilose for nearly their whole length, the midnerve often 
excurrent at the apex; palea as long as the lemma, 2-nerved, densely pilose between 
the nerves; stamens 3; styles 2, distinct. 
1. Blepharoneuron tricholepis (Torr.) Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 88. 1898. 
Vilfa tricholepis Torr. U. 8. Rep. Expl. Miss. Pacif. 4: 155. 1856. 
Sporobolus tricholepis Coulter, Man. Rocky Mount. 411. 1885. 
TYPE LocaLity: Sandia Mountains, New Mexico. Type collected by Bigelow. 
Rane@eE: Utah and Colorado to Arizona and Mexico. 
