B ush — North American Species of Triodia. 75 



Type locality: Slopes of Currahee Mountain, near Toccoa, 

 Georgia, and along Yellow River in Gwinnett County, in the 

 same State; collected by J. E. Small 1894; type in Herba- 

 rium of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Specimens examined. — Florida: No locality given, Chapman, various 

 collections; Duval County, Curtiss, 3454 — Texas : Paris, Lamar County, 

 Heller, 4222; Texarkana, Letterman, 16, 1894; Columbia, Brazoria County, 

 Bush, 952, 1901; no locality given, Reverchon; Camp 4, Bigelow. 



16. Triodia seslerioides (Michx.) Benth. ex Yasey, Gr. 

 U. S. 35. 1883. 



Poa seslerioides Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. 1 : 68. 1803. 



Triodia cuprea Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 2i2l.pl. 26. 1814. 



Tricuspis seslerioides (Michx.) Torr. Fl. N. & Mid. U. S. 1 : 118. 1824. 



Sieglingia sesUrioides (Michx.) Scribn. Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 5 : 48. 



1«94. 

 Sieglingia cuprea (Jacq.) Millsp. Fl. W. Va. 471. 



Culms 6-15 dm. tall, erect, somewhat flattened, often 

 viscid above. Sheaths sometimes villous at the summit, the 

 lower short, overlapping and crowded, the upper longer, 

 equaling or shorter than the internodes ; leaves 1-3 dm. long 

 or more, 6-12 mm. wide, flat, attenuate into a long tip, 

 smooth beneath, scabrous above; panicle 1.5-4.5 dm. long, 

 the branches finally ascending or spreading, the lower 1-2.5 

 dm. long, usually dividing above the middle; spikelets 4-8- 

 flowered, 6-8 mm. long, purple; empty scales glabrous, 

 obtuse, generally slightly 2-toothed; flowering scales oval, 

 the nerves pilose, excurrent as short tips. Dry borders of 

 woods and fields. July to October. Perennial. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Maine and New York to 

 Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Indian Ter- 

 ritory, Illinois, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Louis- 

 iana, Oklahoma, Ohio, New Jersey, Mississippi and North 

 Carolina. 



Type locality: ♦' Hab. in region Illinoensi et in montosis 

 Carolinae." 



Specimens examined. — Texas: Dallas County, Beverchon, 1111, 1899; 

 Marshall, Bush, 1015, 1901.— Missouri: Eagle Rock, Barry County, 5wsA, 

 1896; Clay County, Mackenzie, 646, 1901.— Kansas; Wyandotte County, 

 Mackenzie, 1896; Manhattan, A'e^erman, 1888.— Arkansas: Fulton, Hemp- 

 stead County, Bush, 1044, 1901.— Indian Territory: Sapulpa, Creek 



