Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 63 



94. Syntherisma sanguinalis (Linnaeus) Dulac. Crab Grass. 



Panicum satiguinale Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 57. 

 Digitaria sanguinalis Scopoli, Flora Carniolica, I, Ed. II, 1772, p. 52. 

 Syntherisma prcecox Walter, Flora Caroliniana, 1788, p. 76. 

 Asperella digitaria Lamarck, Illustrations des Genres, I, 1791, p. 167. 



Reported by Hitchcock on the basis of the Curtiss specimen, col- 

 lected near Nueva Gerona, in 1904, now in the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. General Distribution: Widely distributed 

 as a weed of cultivated and waste grounds throughout the temperate 

 and warmer regions of the globe. 



95. Valota insularis (Linnaeus) Chase. Sour Grass, 



Andropogon insulare Linn.:us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 1304. 



Panicum leucophceum Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species 



Plantarum, I, 1816, p. 87. 



Panicum Duchaissingii Steudel, Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum, I, 1854, 



p. 93. 

 Tricholana insularis Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, 1864, 



P- 557. 



Open spot in river-bank forest at Los Indios, May 20, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 441. General Distribution: From Florida and Texas 

 south through the tropics of America to Patagonia. 



96. Mesosetum Rottboellioides Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth. 



Panicum Rottboellioides Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species 



Plantarum, I, 1816, p. 96. 

 Mesosetum cayennense Steudel, Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum, I, 1854, p. 118. 

 Mesosetum Rottbcellioides Hitchcock, Contributions U. S. National Herbarium, XII, 



1909, p. 211. 



Near Nueva Gerona, March 10, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. jg6; in 

 1900, Palmer & Riley, Nos. 88q, 8g6, and A. A. Taylor, No. ji, in 

 1901 (Hitchcock). General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, 

 and South America. 



97. Sacciolepis myuros (Lamarck) Chase. 



Panicum Myuros Lamarck, Illustrations des Genres, I, 1791, p. 172. 

 Sacciolepis Myuros Chase, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 

 XXI, 1908, p. 7. 



Reported by Hitchcock on the basis of the A. H. Curtiss specimen, 

 collected near Nueva Gerona, in 1904, No. 42S. General Distribu- 

 tion: West Indies, Mexico, to northern South America. 



