Marca 27, 1915] Two Husxprep Twexry Six New Spectes—I 9679 
1 dm long, exceeding the internodes, ultimately separating 
from the stem clear to the base, smooth and glabrous, fine- 
ly striate, well curved around the stem in the younger 
state, the sides at the apex truncate and bearing an erect 
similarly truncate 1 to 2 mm wide finely ciliate ligule, 
Spikes fastigiately digitate, yellowish green, purplish with age, 
varying from 2 to 12 em in length, arising from near the 
base, plane toward, the inner side; flowers in 3 rows, artie- 
ulate, the middle outer row subsessile and awned; the 2 
lateral rows usually awnless, the pedicellate flower alterna- 
ting with the distichously branched articulations; the pedicels 
and articulations hard, shining, rigid, somewhat curved along 
the inner side from the base, keeled along the outer edge, 
doubly keeled along the inner and white ciliate, otherwise 
glabrous, the articulations 4 mm long, the pedicel 1.5 mm 
longer; spikelet rather broad in anthesis, 2-flowered, the ba- 
sal one staminate, the upper pistillate; first of the empty 
glumes of the lower or staminate floret reddish brown, rigid, 
8 mm long, the basal two thirds deeply concavo-couvex, 
2-keeled along the dorsal side toward the minutely 2-point- 
ed subaeute apex, the keels minutely ciliate along the edges, 
about 4 to 5 mm wide at the base when spread out; flower- 
ing glume broadly lanceolate, sharply acuminate, subhyaline, 
glabrous, 1.5 mm wide at the middle or below it, the hyaline 
margins ventrally folded; palea when spread out appearing 
wider, hyaline, acuminately pointed, about as long; lodicule 
short and truncately rounded; stamens 3; filaments also hyaline, 
1 mm long; anther dark or reddish brown, 3 mm long, flat- 
tened and linear, 0.5 to 0.75 mm wide toward the base, 
base deeply lobed, apex with 2 slender points; first of the 
empty glumes of the empty glumes of the upper or pistil- 
late floret 9 mm long, likewise rigid and reddish brown, 
the basal two thirds deeply concavo-convex, 3 mm wide 
across the base or broader portion, the apical portion taper- 
ing into a finely scabrid awn-like point; flowering glume 6 
mm long, oblong, one half as wide, hyaline below the mid- 
dle, apex slenderly acute, bearing an 8 mm long green mi- 
nutely scabrid nearly straight awn from its back below the 
bifid apex; palea 7 mm long, 1.25 mm wide at the base, 
gradually tapering to the apex, hyaline except the 2 veins; 
