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capillary, unequal, mostly in fives below, above in twos or threes, 
the longer about 2 inches long, all naked below, and rather 
numerously flowered above; pedicels slender, as long as, to two 
or three times as long as, the spikelets, which are about 1 % lines 
long, narrowly lanceolate, and gradually tapering to the acute 
point, slightly scabrous on the keel, rather thin and purple; 
flowering glume a little shorter than the empty ones, narrowly 
lanceolate, five-nerved, apex rather obtuse ; palet wanting. The 
panicle has a rich purple color, and it approaches the A. scabra, ~ 
but is shorter, and with much shorter and erect branches, and a 
firmer culm. Collected in Oregon by Mr. Howell. 
DEYEUXIA CUSICKII, V.—Culms from a strong creeping 
rhizome, stout, smooth, 4 feet high, radical leaves abundant, a 
foot long and 2 lines wide, tapering to a long point; culm leaves 
three or four, distant, long and wide like the radical ones; sheaths 
shorter than the internodes, smooth, striate, 4 to 8 inches long; 
ligule decurrent, thin, about 2 lines long, lanceolate at the apex; 
panicle 6 to 7 inches long, 1 inch or more wide, erect, the lower 
joints 1 inch apart; branches numerous, verticillate, mostly flow- 
ering to the base, the longer ones 1% inches long, and naked 
below; empty glumes lanceolate, smooth, rather thin, about 2 
lines long, strongly acute or acuminate, the lower one-nerved, 
upper three-nerved, and a little shorter; flowering glume nearly 
equaling the empty ones, narrowly lanceolate acuminate, smooth, 
thinnish, five-nerved, bifid at the apex, awn erect, inserted a little 
below the middle, slightly longer than its glume, hairs scanty, 
about half as long as the glume; palet nearly equaling its glume, 
thin, membranous. 
A showy grass, with abundant foliage and rather ample pan- 
icle, collected in eastern Oregon at an altitude of 5,000 feet, by 
Mr. W. C. Cusick, who states that the radical shoots are abun- 
dant, but rarely sending up flowering culms. 
Turner’s New Desmids of the United States. 
By FRANCIS WOLLE. 
It is with a feeling of much satisfaction that I have been ob- 
serving the growing interest in the study of the Desmids, not 
only of foreign countries, but especially of the United States, and 
