584 GRAMINEZ. (GRASS FAMILY.) 
1. L. Alabamensis, n.sp. Smooth throughout; culms low (4'— 6! high), 
simple, jointed near the base; leaves mostly two; the lowest one 3 - 4 times the 
length of the culm; the elongated purple sheath enclosing the short membrana- 
ceous upper one, and the stalk of the simple few-flowered panicle; spikelets 
pale, ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the erect or appressed capillary pedicels ; 
the staminate and pistillate ones borne on separate culms ; palex of staminate 
spikelet- lanceolate, 7-nerved ; those of the pistillate ovate-lanceolate, 11 — 13- 
nerved, much longer than the smooth grain. — Brooklyn, Conecuh County, 
Alabama, J. F. Beaumont. 
60. MONANTHOCHLO#, Engelm. 
A low maritime branching grass, with very short rigid crowded leaves, and 
dicecions flowers in solitary terminal sessile spikes. Glumes none. — Spikes 
short, 3—5-flowered ; the lowest flower, or the two lower ones, neutral, of 1-2 
palez ; the uppermost abortive ; the intermediate ones, composed of two pales, 
triandrous in the staminate, digynous in the pistillate spike. Pales convolute, 
scarious and obtuse at the apex; the lower one rigid, ovate-lanceolate, 9 — 12- 
nerved above; the upper rather longer, 2-keeled or 2-winged on the back. 
Squamule none. Anthers longer than the short filaments, 2-lobed at each end. 
Ovary lanceolate-linear, 3-angled. Styles 2: stigmas elongated, plumose with 
simple hairs. Grain 3-angled, free. 
1. M. littoralis, Engelm. — Low sandy shores, South Florida, and west- 
ward.— Culms much branched, 5/-8/ high, smooth and somewhat woody, 
erect, or at length prostrate and rooting. Leaves 3” long, very rigid, ob- 
tuse, many-nerved, rough on the margins, mostly crowded at the summit of - 
the short branches, and enclosing the short (3"- 4") sessile spikes. Flowers 
