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SPOROBOLUS COMPOSITUS (Poir.) n. comb. Agrostis compositis Poir. 

 in Lam. Encycl. Sui)pl. 1: 254. 1810; Agrostis involutaMnhl. Gram. 72. 1817; 

 Agrostis longifolius Torr. Fl. U. S. 1 : 90. 1824; Sporoholus longifoluisWood, 

 Class-book, 77"). 18G1 ; Sjiorobohts asper Vasey, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 

 59. 1892, not Kmith. 1833. 



Agrostis composita Poir., based on a specimen collected by Bosc in "Caroline," 

 is evidently the earliest available name for this species, and is here taken up. 

 Agrostis ini-olnta Muhl. has been previously referred to Sporoholus asper, 

 but according to the specimens in Muhlenberg's herbarium and to his de- 

 scription, it is identical with the form described by Torrey as Agrostis longi- 

 folia, which it antedates. 



Bromus pubescens Muhl. in Willd. Enum. 120. 1809; Gram. 169. 1817. 



Tliis species, according to the specimen so labeled in Muhlenberg's herbarium, 

 now deposited in the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, is identical 

 with B. purgans Linn., and should be cited as a synonym of that species. 



Bromus scabratus Scribn., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Agros., Bui. 13 : 46. 1898, is 

 a synonym of Bromus porteri (Coult. ) Nash. It is based on No. 3800 A. 

 Neison, Vermillion Creek, Wyo., July 20, 1897. 



The above names were not cited in Bulletin No. 23, in which the North American 

 species of Bromus are monographed. 



Chaetochloa hispida Scribn. & Merrill, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Agros., Bui. 21: 

 25, fig. 1^. 1900. 



This species was based on a single specimen collected in Cuba by C. Wright, 

 January, 1865, but has recently been collected in Florida by A. S. Hitchcock, 

 No. 915, shell mounds, Marco, Lee County, July- August, 1900. This speci- 

 men is somewhat larger than the type, about 9 dm. high, with slightly larger 

 spikes, but otherwise the same. 



Phalaris paradoxa Linn. Amoen. Acad, 4: 264. 1759; Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1665. 1763. 



This species has been introduced into California and is represented by specimens 

 collected near Princeton, Colusa County, by J. Burtt Davy, May, 1898, and 

 at San Diego by T. S. Brandegee, January, 1901. It is considered by Jepson, 

 in his " Flora of Middle Western California," and is apparently quite widely 

 distributed in that State. It is a native of Mediterranean region of Europe, 

 Africa, and Asia. 



Approved : 



James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Washington, D. C, June 4, 1901. 



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