BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
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New or noteworthy American Grasses.—I. 
By Gero. V, NAsH. 
_ ERIANTHUS COMPACTUS 7. sp. Culm erect, 4°—8° tall, stout, 
its nodes barbed, its summit and the axis of the panicle densely 
pubescent with appressed long rigid silky hairs. Sheaths glabrous 
or pubescent at the apex; leaves scabrous above, sparingly ap- 
Pressed-pubescent beneath, 6’-2° long, 3/’-6” wide, long-acumi- 
nate, narrowed toward the base; panicle narrowly oblong, 4'-6/ 
In length, about 114’ wide, branches erect, 1/-2’ long; spikelets 
Crowded, the internodes of the rachis about 1’ long; outer 
Scales of the spikelet about 21%” long, exceeding the pedicels 
and about equalling the basal hairs, lanceolate, acuminate, pubes- 
cent with long spreading hairs; inner scales shorter, the awn 
5,-10” long, straight, scabrous. 
In moist or wet soil, New Jersey to North Carolina and Ten- 
nessee. The compact panicle composed of short erect branches, 
the short internodes of the rachis, and the crowded small spike- 
lets readily distinguish this plant from the other straight-awned 
Species, 
SYNTHERISMA Walt. Fl. Car. 76 (1788). : 
[Digétaria Scop. Fl. Carn. Ed. 2, 1: 52.1772. Not Heist. 
1763]. 
_ The Digitaria section of Panicum is certainly sufficiently dis- 
tinct to take generic rank and it has been so regarded by many 
authors. Panicum as now generally understood comprises too 
‘Many forms. It would seem preferable to restrict the genus to the 
Eupanieae. 
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