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TRIPLASIS BEAUV. AGROST. 81. 1812 



Triplasis Americana Beauv. — Small Flora 144. Beale 

 466. On prairies of Calcasieu and in Cameron Parish. Re- 

 ported by Langlois from Pointe a la Hache. 



Triplasis purpurea (Walt.) Chapman. ( THodia. purpurea 

 Back.), {Tricuspis purpurea A. Gray), (Siegliugia purpurea 

 Kuntze).— Britton & Brown. Illus. Flora I, 185, Fig. 424. Small 

 Flora 144. Beale 469. Am. Grasses II, 213, Fig. 509. In dry 

 prairies Calcasieu and Cameron. 



DIPLACHNE BEAUV. AGROST. 80. 1812 



Diplachne fascicularis (Lam.) Beauv. {Leptochloa fas- 

 iicularis Gray.) — Britton & Brown. Illus. Flora I, 186, Fig. 426. 

 Small Flora 145. Beale 435. Am. Grasses I, 218, Fig. 212. 

 Abundant on the shores of Grand Lake Cameron Parish. 



Diplachne Halei Nash. — Small Flora 146. Inserted on 

 authority of Prof. Small. "Salt marshes Louisiana to Texas." 



Diplachne imbricata (Thurb) Scribn. (Leptochloa im- 

 bricata Thurb.)— Beale 435. Am. Grasses I, 220, Fig. 214. 

 Collected by Prof. S. M. Tracy at Cameron and kindly sent 

 to the writer. Beale gives the range of this grass as Southern 

 California, Arizona, Mexico. Scribner Am. Grasses gives Texas 

 to Southern California. This, therefore, is another of the 

 Western species which find their Eastern limit in Louisiana. 



ERAGROSTIS BEAUV. AGROST. 70. 1812 



Eragrostis capillarls (L.) Nees. — Britton & Brown, 

 111ns. Flora I, 187, Fig. 428. Small Flora 147. Beale 481. Am. 

 Grasses I, 249, Fig. 243. A common weed in cultivated ground 

 over the entire State. 



Eragrostis capitata (Nutt) Nash. — Small Flora 149. 

 Collected by writer only in the vicinity of Shreveport. Ac- 

 cording to Small, found in wet, sandy soil, Arkansas and 

 Louisiana to Nebraska, New Mexico and Texas. 



Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) Link. — Small Flora 147. Beal" 

 479. Am. Grasses I. 254, Fig. 248. Plant not seen by the 

 writer. Inserted here on the authority of Rev. A. B. Langlois, 

 Catalogue Provisoire de Plantes de la Basse-Lou isianne, 1887. 



