NEW AND LITTLE KNOWN SPECIES. 117 
name sporoboloides. The type specimens are in the her- 
barium of the Missouri Botanical Garden.—Plate 54. 
ERAGROSTIS GRANDIFLORA, Smith and Bush, n. sp. 
Perennial; culms simple, 1 meter high, the nodes much 
elongated; panicle large, occupying more than half the 
culm, 6 dm. long; panicle branches slender, ascending, 12 
to 15 em. long, the lower pilose in the axils; empty glumes 
lanceolate, very acute, a little shorter than the lowest 
florets, 2.5 mm. long, the first one-, the second three- 
nerved; rachilla glabrous, articulate; spikelet 10 to 20 
flowered, 1 to 2 cm. long, longer than the scabrous capil- 
lary pedicels; flowering glume 3 mm. long, ovate, acute, 
glabrous, a little longer than the palet ; caryopsis 1 mm. 
long, truncate at each end, furrowed; leaves ample, 3 or 
4 dm. or more long, 7 to 10 mm. wide, attenuate and fili- 
form at the apex, scabrous above and on the margins ; 
sheaths smooth or hirsute above, and pilose at the throat. 
This species is most closely related to Hragrostis tenuis, 
Gray, but is easily distinguished by its elongated spikelets. 
Collected at Sapulpa, Indian Territory, Oct. 1, 1894, by 
B. F. Bush. Type specimen in the herbarium of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden.— Plate 55. 
Eracrostis BeyRICHII, n. sp. 
Low cespitose perennial, 1 to 2 dm. high; culms genicu- 
late below, ascending or erect, much branched from the 
base, smooth, terete, glabrous, mostly with 3 nodes; 
sheath striate, smooth, shorter than the internode, ciliate 
at the throat; ligule very short; leaves soft, smooth or 
very minutely scabrous above, linear, 6 to 8 or 15 cm. long, 
1.5 to 2 mm. wide, soon involute and filiform, attenuate 
above, usually much shorter than the culms; spikelets 
sessile or short pedicelled and densely fasciculate in an 
interrupted spike-like or capitate panicle, linear-oblong, 
strongly compressed; 15 to 40 flowered, mostly 10 to 15 or 
rarely 25 mm. long, 5 mm. broad; panicle branches single, 
