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STIPA L. SP. PL. 1 :78. 1753 



Stipa avenacea L. (Stipa barbata Michx). — Britton & 

 Brown, Illus. Flora I, 138, Fig. 311. Small Flora 120. Beale 

 218. Am. Grasses I, 127, Fig. 423. In dry woods of the more 

 hilly parts of the State. West Feliciana and near Ruston. 



MUHLENBERGIA SCHREB. GEN. 44. 1789. 



MUHLiENBERGIA CAPIL.LARIS (LAM.) TrIN. — Britton & 



Brown, Illus. Flora I, 145, Fig. 329. Small Flora 121. Beale 

 256. Am. Grasses II, 152, Fig. 448. In dry sandy soil. Tangi- 

 pahoa. 



MUHLENBERGIA DIFFUSA SCHREB. Britton & BrOWQ, IlluS. 



Flora I, 145, Fig. 329. Small Flora 121. Beale 245. Am. 

 Grasses I, 105, Fig. 99. Not uncommon and distributed all over 

 the State, usually in shady places and banks of rivers. Some- 

 times as in the vicinity of Baton Rouge in dry cultivated fields. 



MUHLENBERGIA TENUIFLORA (WlLLD.) B. S. P. (M. WUde- 



novii Trin.)— Britton & Brown, Illus. Flora I, 144, Fig. 326. 

 Small Flora 121. Beale 255. Am. Grasses II, 147, Fig. 443. 

 In dry woods collected only on the borders of Louisiana and 

 Mississippi, near Osyka. 



BRACHYELYTRUM BEAUV. AGROST. 39. 1812. 



Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) Beauv. (B. arista- 

 turn Boem & Schutt).— Britton & Brown, Illus. Flora I, 146, 

 Fig. 332. Small Flora 122. Beale 269, Fig. 46. Am. Grasses 

 I, 118, Fig. 112. Collected near Alexandria. This grass was 

 also collected many years ago in Louisiana by Hale Carpenter 

 & Riddell, somewhere in "West Louisiana." Small gives range 

 as Newfoundland and Ontario to Minnesota, Georgia and Texas. 

 Mohr includes in the southern range Alabama, Mississippi and 

 Arkansas. Beale says "Florida and northward." With Louisi- 

 ana added to the list the grass seems to occur in all the Southern 

 States. 



PHLEUM L. SP. PL. I, 59. 1753 



Phleum pratense L.— Britton & Brown, Illus. Flora I, 

 147, Fig. 334. Small Flora 122. Beale 276. Am. Grasses I, 

 120, Fig. 114. Inserted here on the authority of Rev. A. B. 



