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(2) Avena sativa L., Sp. PL 79. 1753. Europe. 



Avena sativa var. nigra Wood, Class-book ed. 2. 610. 1847. Not A. sativa 



var. nigra Schrank as to name but probably the same form. Cultivated. 

 Avena sativa var. secunda Wood, Class-book ed. 2. 610. 1847. A. sativa 

 var. secunda Provancher, Fl. Canad. 2: 689. 1862, is probably the same 

 form. Cultivated. 

 Avena fatua var. sativa Haesskn., Mitt. Geogr. Ges. Thuringen 3: 238. 1885. 



Presumably based on Avena sativa L. 

 Avena fatua subsp. sativa Thell., Vierteljahrs. Nat. Ges. Ziirich 56: 325. 

 1911. Based on A. sativa L. 

 Avena sterilis L., Sp. PI. ed. 2. 118. 1762. Spain. 



Avena algeriensis Trab., Bull. Agr. Alger. Tunis. 16: 354. 1910. Cult. 

 Avena sterilis algeriensis Trab., Jour. Hered. 5: 77. 1914. Presumably based 

 on A. algeriensis Trab. 

 Avena strigosa Schreb., Spic. Fl. Lips. 52. 1771. Europe. 



(126) AXONOPUS Beauv. 



Ess. Agrost. 12. 1812. Based on 



1788. 

 1791. 



Jamaica. 

 South America, 



1804. Puerto Rico, 



2: 272. 1840, erroneous- 

 Ecuador, Humboldt. 

 18. 1854. Guadeloupe, 



1854. Louisiana, Hart- 



1: 20. 1854. West 



(2) Axonopus compressus (Swartz) Beauv. 



Milium compressum Swartz. 

 Milium compressum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 24. 

 Paspalum tristachyon Lam., Tabl. Encycl. 1: 176. 



Richard. 

 Paspalum platicaulon Poir., in Lam., Encycl. Sup. 5: 34. 



Ledru. 

 Agrostis compressa Poir., in Lam., Encycl. Sup. 1: 259. 1810. Not A. com- 



pressa Poir, op. cit. 258, nor Willd., 1790. Based on Milium compressum 



Swartz. 

 Paspalum compressum Raspail, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. 5: 301. 1825. Based on 



Axonopus compressus Beauv. 

 Paspalum laticulmum Spreng., Syst. Veg. 1: 245. 1825. West Indies. 

 Digitaria platicaulis Desv., Opusc. 62. 1831. Based on Paspalum platicaulon Poir. 

 Digitaria domingensis Desv.; Kunth, Enum. PL 1: 49. 1833, as synonym of 



Paspalum platicaulon Poir. 

 Paspalum platycaule Willd.; Steud., Nom. Bot. ed. 2. 



ly cited as synonym of P. furcatum Fliigge. 

 Paspalum guadaloupense Steud., Syn. PL Glum. 1: 



Duchaissing. 

 Paspalum depressum Steud., Syn. PL Glum. 1: 20. 



mann 51. 

 Paspalum filostachyum A. Rich.; Steud., Syn. PL Glum. 



Indies, Sieber [365]. 

 Anastrophus compressus Schlecht.; Doell, in Mart., Fl. Bras. 2 2 : 102. 1877. 



Presumably based on Milium comprt'ssum Swartz. 

 Paspalum furcatum var. parviflorum Doell, in Mart., Fl. Bras. 2 2 : 104. 1877. 



[West Indies] Sieber 365; [Louisiana], Hartmann 51. 

 Anastrophus platycaulis Schlecht.; Jacks., Ind. Kew. 1: 118. 1893, as syno- 

 nym of Paspalum platicaulon. 

 Panicum platycaulon Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 3 2 : 363. 1898. Based on 



Paspalum platicaulon Poir. 

 Paspalum raunkiaerii Mez, Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 15: 60. 1917. St. Jan, 



West Indies, Raunkiaer 1313. 

 (1) Axonopus furcatus (Fliigge) Hitchc, Rhodora 8: 205. 1906. Based on 



Paspalum furcatum Fliigge. 

 Paspalum furcatum Fliigge, Monogr. Pasp. 114. 1810. Carolina, Bosc. 

 Paspalum digitaria C. MuelL, Bot. Ztg. 19: 324. 1861. Not P. digitaria 



Poir., 1816. Texas, Drummond 276. 

 Paspalum michauxianum var. villosum Vasey, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 13: 163. 



1886. No locality cited. [Type, Orange County, Fla., Curtiss E.] 

 Paspalum furcatum var. villosum Vasey, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 3: 16. 



1892. Presumably based on Paspalum michauxianum var. villosum Vasey. 

 Paspalum paspaloides var. villosum Scribn. and Ball, U.S.Dept.Agr., Div. 



Agrost. Bull. 24: 42. 1901. Based on P. furcatum var. villosum Vasey. 

 Anastrophus furcatus Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 162. 1912. Based on Paspalum 



furcatum Fliigge. 

 This species was called Paspalum paspaloides by Scribner (Mem. Torrey Bot. 

 Club 5: 29. 1894) and Anastrophus paspaloides by Nash (in Britton, Man. 75. 

 1901), but Digitaria paspalodes Michx., upon which these names are based, is 

 Paspalum distichum L. 



