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ciliate in the axils; empty glumes lanceolate acuminate, 
over half as long as the lowest florets, the first one-, the 
second three-nerved, tinged with purple; flowering glume 
and palet pale straw color; flowering glume lanceolate 
acuminate, 3-nerved, 4 mm. long, keel and lateral nerves 
scabrous ; palet oblong, 3 as long, 2-nerved, scabrous on the 
margins and nerves below, erose at the apex; caryopsis 
terete, linear, 1 mm. long. This species is dedicated to 
Beyrich, who first collected it in Arkansas in 1834. Speci- 
mens have also been examined from Dallas, Texas, collected 
by Reverchon, 499, 1874, and by Prof. Geo. W. Letter- 
man, July 25,1881. Itis most closely related to Hragros- 
tis oxylepis, Torr., but differs in habit and in the very acute 
flowering glumes and narrow spikelets. Type in the 
Bernhardi Herbarium.— Plate 56. 
ERAGROSTIS SECUNDIFLORA, Presl, Reliq. Haenk. 1, 276 
(1830). | 
A specimen of this, collected by Haenke in Mexico, is in 
the Bernhardi Herbarium. It is identical with Hragrostis 
oxylepis, Torr., Rep. Bot. Whipple Exped. 156 (1857); 
Poa interrupta, Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (n. ser.) 5, 
146 (1837), not Lam. Illustr. 1, 185 (1791); Eragrostis 
interrupta (Nutt.), Trelease, Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Ark. 6, 
237 (1888), not Beauv. Agrost. 71 (1812); and Eragrostis 
Verae-Crucis, Rupr. Bull. Acad. Brux. 9, reimp. 9 (1842). 
I have examined specimens as follows : — Mexico: Haenke, 
without locality or date; and Liebmann 538 (2. Verae- 
Crucis, Rupr.), Pochutla, La Galera, Oct., 1842. New 
Mexico: Fendler 913, 1847. Texas: Drummond 228, 321 and 
325, 1832-1834; Lindheimer 32, Galveston, April 1843, 
734, 735, 1847, and Granite Hills of the Llano, 464, 
Oct., 1847; Ravenel, Indianola, May 3, 1869; Pringle 1969, 
July 28, 1888; Pammel, Brazos Co., Aug., 1888; Letter- 
man, Texarkana, Oct. 18, 1894; Heller 1802, Corpus Christi, 
May 28-31, 1894. Indian Territory: Torrey, Marcy’s 
Expedition, Wichita Mts. 1852, in the Buckley Herbarium ; 
