Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 71 



Chloris barbata Swartz, Flora Indiae Occidentalis, I, 1797, p. 200. Not C. barbata 



Nash, 1898. 

 Chloris paraguaiensis Steudel, Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum, I, 1854, p. 204. 



"In the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden: Isle of 

 Pines, Curtiss in 1904" Hitchcock, General Distribution: From 

 the Bahamas south through the West Indies, and from Mexico south 

 through tropical continental America. 



131. Chloris petraea Swartz. 



Chloris petrcea Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 

 dentalis, 1788, p. 25. 



Eustachys petrcea Desvaux, Nouvelle Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique, II, 

 1810, p. 189. 



"Isle of Pines, Palmer & Riley 969" Hitchcock. In cultivated 

 Field at McKinley, May 16, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 302; "in the 

 herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden: Isle of Pines, Curtiss 

 in 1904" Hitchcock. General Distribution: In dry sandy soil, 

 mostly near the coast, from North Carolina to Florida, Texas, Mexico, 

 and Costa Rica, and from the Bermudas and Bahamas through the 

 Greater Antilles. 



132. Eleusine indica (Linnaeus) Gaertner. 



Cynosurus indicus Linn.-eus, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 72. 



Eleusifie indica G/ERTNer, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum, I, 1788, p. 7, 

 t. I. 



"Isle of Pines, Curtiss in 1904, in Herb. N. Y, Bot. Gard." 

 Hitchcock. General Distribution: Warmer regions of the world, 

 extending north in America to Massachusetts, northern Indiana, 

 and Kansas. 



133. Leptochloa filiformis (Lamarck) Beauvois. 



Festuca filiformis La\la.rck, Illustrations des Genres, I, 1791, p. 191. 

 Eleusine mucronala Michaux, Flora Boreali-Americana, I, 1803, p. 65. 

 Leptochloa filiformis Beauvois, Essai d'une nouvelle Agrostographie, 1812, p. 71. 

 Leptochloa tnucronata KtiNTH, Revision des Graminees, I, 1829, p. 91, 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 21, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 508. General 

 Distribution: Virginia to Illinois and Calif ornia[and southward through 

 the warmer and tropical regions of America; also in the tropics of 

 the Old World. 



