62 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



91. Axonopus compressus (Swartz) Beauvois. Carpet Grass. 



Milium compressum Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indlae 



Occidcntalis, 1788, p. 24. 

 Paspalum compressum Nees, in Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, II, 1829, p. 23. 

 Anastrophus platycauUs Nash, in Small, Flora of the Southeastern U. S., 1903, 



p. 79- 

 Axonopus compressus Beauvois, Essai d'une nouvelle Agrostographie, 1812, p. 12. 

 (For several other synonyms see Nash, in North American Flora, XVII, 1912, p. 



162.) 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 24, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 511; Same 

 locality, January 21, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. jo6, sent out as "Ana- 

 strophus tristachyus (Lam.)." General Distribution: From Virginia 

 to Florida and Texas, West Indies, and the tropics and subtropics 

 generally. 



92. Leptocoryphium lanatum (Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth) Nees. 



Leplocoryphium lanaliim Nees, Agrostologia Brasiliensis, 1829, p. 84. 



Paspalmn lanatum Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species 



Plantarum, I, 1815, p. 94. 

 Milium lanatum Roemer & Schultes, Systema Vegetabilium, II, 1817, p. 322. 

 AnthcBnantia lanata Bentham, Journal Linnean Society, XIX, 1881, p. 39. 



Near Nueva Gerona, March 6 and 20, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 3Q3; 

 Palmer & Riley, Nos. 440, g'j2, in 1900 (Hitchcock); as a weed in a 

 grapefruit grove north of Nueva Gerona, May 14, 1910, 0. E. Jen- 

 nings, No. 245a; in savanna at Los Indios, May 19, 1910, 0. E. Jen- 

 nings, No. 434. General Distribution: Southern Mexico to Costa 

 Rica, Cuba, Isle of Pines, Trinidad, and northern South America. 



93. Syntherisma digitata (Swartz) Hitchcock. 



Milium digitatum Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiee Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 24. 

 Digitaria setosa Desvaux, in Hamilton, Prodromus Plantarum Indiae Occidentalis, 



1825, p. 6. 

 Syntherisma setosa Nash, Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club, XXV, 1898, p. 300. 

 Syntherisma digitata Hitchcock, Contributions U. S. National Herbarium, XII, 



1908, p. 142. 



Reported by Hitchcock on the basis of the collection made by Curtiss 

 in 1904, specimens in herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 

 General Distribution: Florida, Bermuda, Bahamas, and southward 

 through the West Indies and continental tropical America. 



