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species of grasses, and as the only means of clearing up this con- 

 fusion and preventing further error it was necessary to examine 

 the specimens upon which they were based. Fortunately Elliott's 

 herbarium has been preserved and is now the propert}' of the College 

 of Charleston. The herbarium consists of 28 volumes of folios, 12 

 by 23 inches in size, and the specimens are for the most part attached 

 to the sheets and labeled both on the outside of the fold and on the 

 inside. Often several species are in one sheet, but in such cases 

 each specimen is separately labeled. A part of the herbarium, espe- 

 cially that containing the grasses, is in very good state of preserva- 

 tion, while in several of the volumes of other plants nearly all the 

 specimens have been destroyed by insects. The Gramineae occupy 

 exclusively one volume and portions of three others. 



Anthoxanthum odoratum Linn. ; Ell. Sk. 1 : 37. 



Erianthus alopecurioides Ell. Sk. 1 ■.S8.=Erianthus saccharoides Michx. 



Erianthus brevibarbis Michx.; Ell. Sk. 1:39. On this cover is also the name 

 " Erianthvs contortns," which is scratched out. The specimen in the Her- 

 barium of Elliott is matched by No. 1426 A. P. Anderson, South Carolina, 

 October 1, 1897, in the U. S. National Herbarium. 



Erianthus strictus Baldwin ; Ell. Sk. 1 : 39. This is the same as a specimen in 

 the Herb. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., so labeled by Baldwin. 



Erianthus contortus Ell. Sk. 1 : 40. This name appears in the Herbarium of 

 Elliott only on the cover with Erianthus brevibarbis noted ^bove. 



Cenchrus echinatus L. : Ell. Sk. 1 : 93. 



Cenchrus tribuloides L. ; Ell. Sk. 1 : 93. In this cover is true Cenchrus tribuloides 

 L., and a specimen of Cenchrus macrocephalus (Doell.) Scribn. 



Spartina juncea Ell. Sk. 1 -.M.^Sjiartina patens (Ait.) Muhl. 

 Spartina polystachya Michx. ; Ell. Sk. 1 : 95. 



Spartina glabra Miihl. : Ell. Sk. \:96.=Spai'tina strictu maritima (Walt.) 



Scribn. 

 Arundinaria macrosperma Michx. ; Ell. Sk. 1 : 96. 

 Muhlenbergia diffusa Ell. Sk. 1 :98. 

 Muhlenbergia erecta Muhl.; Ell. Sk. \ ■.98.:=Brachyelytntm erectum [Qchreb.) 



BeaiTV. 



Trichodium laxiflorum Michx. ; Ell. Sk. 1 : 99.=AgrostishyemaHs (Walt.) B. S. P. 



Trichodium perennans Walt. ; Ell. Sk. 1 : 99=A form of the grass now referred 

 to Agrostis altissima (Walt.) Tuckerm. 



Leersia virginica Willd. : Ell. Sk. ] :WO=Homalocenchrus virginicus (Willd.) 

 Britton. 



Leersia lenticularis Michx. ; Ell. Sk. 1 : 100. =Homalocenchrus lenticularis 

 (Michx. ) Kimtze. 



Leersia oryzoides Linn.; Ell. Sk. \ ■AO\.:=Homalocenchrus oryzoides (Linn.) 



Poll. 

 Phalaris americana Ell. Sk. 1 : 102. ^=Phalaris caroliniana Walt. 

 Aulaxanthus ciliatus Ell. Sk. 1 : 102.=AntJiaenantia villosa (Michx.) Benth. 



Aulaxanthus rufus Ell. Sk. \ .103.= Anthaeiiantia nifa (Ell.) Schultes. Speci- 

 men not seen. 



