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superans. Spices sessiles vel subsessiles, cylindrical, 2 vel 3 inferiores omnino fcemineae, 

 intermedia basi fceminea apice mascula, 2 superiores masculae. Glumes ovatse, breviter 

 aristatas, punctatae, vix hispidulse. Perigynium longiuscule acuminatum, bifidum, costatum, 

 puuetatum, undique fere glabrum. Styli 3. Nux breviter stipitata, subtrigona, lsevis, 

 glabra. — Gram. Cyp. Bermud. tenue spicatum. A Bermud. a D. Dickinson. Herb. Sloan., 

 xxxii. p. 83. — Jonrn. Bot., 1883, p. 257, t. 239, fig. 2. 



Bermudas. — Endemic. 



Only known from the one specimen in the Sloane Collection in the British Natural 

 History Museum. 



It is closely allied to the endemic St Helena Carex prcealta, Boott, but it is much 

 slenderer, and probably not more than half as tall. All the spikelets are sessile or sub- 

 sessile, and the bracts are narrower ; and the glumes and utricles are dotted as in Carex 

 cequabilis, another species endemic in St Helena. 



GRAMINE^E. 

 Paspalum distichum, Linn. 



Paspalum distichum, Linn., Amoen. Acad., v. p. 391 ; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 541 ; Chapiu., 



Fl. Southern U.S., p. 570. 

 Paspalum littorale, R. Br., Prodr. N. Holl., p. 188 ; Trin., Spec. Gram., i. t. 112. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous. In swamps — Moseley ; Munro ; Grisebach ; Reade. 



Very widely spread in tropical and sub- tropical regions, both in the New and the Old 

 World. 



Paspalum filiforme, Swartz. 



Paspalum filiforme, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ, i. p. 136; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W: Ind., p. 541 ; Chapm., Fl. 

 Southern U.S., p. 572. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous'? Lefroy ; Munro. Locally known as " Wire-grass." 

 Southern States of North America ; West Indies. 



Paspalum setaceum, Michx. 



Paspalum setaceum, Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., i. p. 43 ; Gray, Manual, ed. 5, p. 645. 



Paspalum debile et Paspalum ciliatifolium, Michx. 1. c, p. 44; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 571. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous ? Without locality — Lefroy ; Reade. 



A North American grass, ranginp; from Massachusetts to Florida. 



Panicum brevifolium, Linn. 



Panicum brevifolium, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 1, p. 59 ; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 552. 



Bermudas. — Introduced % Rein. 

 West Indies. 



