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Desmodium longifolium Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1. c. as 
synonym. 
MEIBOMIA PSILOPRYLLA WRiIGHTII (A. Gray). 
Desmodium Wrnghtti A. Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 6: 177. 
1850. 
Meibomia Wrightit Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 198. 1891. 
This species is so close to M. pstlophylla (Schlecht. Linnaea, 
12: 310. 1838) as to scarcely even merit varietal rank. It is, 
however, variable, and the North American form seems to have 
somewhat broader leaves and slightly larger loment-joints. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. 
M. psilophylla (Schlecht.) occurs in South Mexico. 
MEIBOMIA ANGUSTIFOLIA sie B. K.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 187 
1891. 
fTedysarum angustifolium H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 6: 517. 1823, 
Desmodium angustifolium DC, Prodr, 2: 328, 1825. 
Desmodium gramineum A, Gray, P|. Wright. 2: 46. 1853. 
Metbomia graminea Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 198. 1891. 
Grass Notes. 
By F. LAMSON-SCRIBNER. 
(PLATE 266.) 
JOUVEA STRAMINEA Fourn. 
~ In Vol. 17: No. 9, of the Buttetin I figured and described a 
grass collected on the sandy seacoasts ot Lower California by Dr. 
Palmer, referring it with a sign of doubt to /Jouvea straminea _ 
Fourn. The genus /ouvea was based upon female plants alone; 
and, while the characters presented by Palmer’s specimens, which 
include both male and female plants, accorded in the main with 
the description given by Fournier, there were some differences in 
the details, which gave a doubt to the identification. Fournier : 
did not recognize the male plants which were in the same collec- 
tion (Liebmann 479 and 480) that contained the specimens upon 
which the genus was founded. He mistook these, as others had 2 
done before him, for species of Dastichlis and referred them to) 
