354 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM BOTANY, VOL. i. 



Paspalum paspaloides Pers. Syn., 81. 



" Izamal, common in old fields, 3 feet high, Oct." (1027). 



Paspalum vaginatum Sw., Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ., 21. 



In fresh water at the aguada and Cenote de Nabula on the 

 Hacienda Chabl^, Aug.; and salt swamps near Sisal, Nov. 1865 

 (Schott, 546, 733}. 



This species appears to me distinct from P. distichum Linn. 



SETARIOPSIS AURICULATA (Fourn) Scribn., Field Col. Mus. Bot., i. 289. 

 Merida, July and Aug. ; and Hacienda Saragossa, Sept. 1865 

 (Schott, 592, 591, 621). 



Streptachne tenuis H. B. & K., Nov. Gen. et sp., i, 124. 



Aristida tenuis Kth. Rev. Gram., i, 62. " Uncommon among 

 low shrubbery along old fences near Izamal, 3 feet high. Aug." 

 (1024.) Merida, Sept. 1865 (Schott, 736). 



Under the number 594 Dr. Schott collected in the Aguada de 

 Labcah in July 1865, a portion of a gramineous species near 

 Arundinaria, to which he applies the Yucatec name Canote, also 

 547 from gardens at San Rafael de Xteppen, an Andropogon. 

 Neither specimen bears flowers nor fruits, in fact no portion of 

 an infloresence. With these two the above list includes all the 

 gramineae in the Yucatan portion of his herbarium. 



CYPERACE.E*. 



Cyperus Sp. 



Prox. speciosus. "Height 3 feet, common in moist, shady 

 places near Izamal." (1035). 



CYPERUS OCHRACEUS Vahl. Enum. ii., 325. 

 Yucatan loc. ign. (1028). 



Cyperus rotundus Linn. sp. PL, 67? 



"One foot high, common in moist places near Merida" 

 (1088). 



Cyperus squarrosus Linn, Cent. PI., ii. 6. 



" Six to 10 inches high, common in old fields near Izamal " 

 (1023). 



Rynchospora micrantha Val. Enum. ii., 231. 



"One foot high, common in the forests of Buena Vista Xbac, 

 September " (1115). 



PALM.E. 



Acrocomia Mexicaua Karw. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii. 285 Cocoyol. 

 Merida, Dec. 1865 (Schott, 805}. " Next to the Coco the tall- 

 est and most graceful palm of the region." 



* Determined by Prof. N. L. Britton. 



