19"] TRELEASE— THE DESERT GROUP XOLIXE.^. 413 



1906. — Sometimes merged in Dasylirioii or Bcaucarnca, and made to 

 include the latter genus by Hemsley, Biol. Centr.-Amer. 3: 371, 

 which is conformed to the views of Bentham and Hooker, Gen. 

 Plant. 3 : 780. — -At first monotypic, based on .V. gcorgiana. 



Leaves thin and grass-like (but hard-fibrous), linear, rarely over 5 mm. wide, 

 rather flat, usually not brush-like at tip. Bracts not very showy. 

 Acaulescent (pp. 413-416). Gr.\minifolle. 



Inflorescence commonly as long as the minutely serrulate-scabrous 

 essentially green spreading leaves, peduncled, unbranched or with 

 slender usually simple branches 15-25 cm. long. Floriferous bracts 

 small, not imbricated. Pedicels remaining filiform, increasing to 

 8 or 10 mm. and equaling or exceeding the usually rather large 

 and inflated fruit. Seed not prominently exposed. 

 Leaves smooth and rather open between the ribs. Panicle not com- 

 pound. Lower bracts much shorter than the subtended branches. 

 Bractlets barely serrulate. 



NoLiNA GEORGiANA ]Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Amer. i : 208. 1803. — 

 ]\I(asters), Gard. Chron. n. s. 15: 688, 697. /. 126. 

 PlwlaiigiiDii zirgatuui Poiret in Lamarck, Encycl. Meth. 5: 246. 

 1804. 



Leaves 3-5 mm. wide. Liflorescence simply pani- 

 cled with rather spreading branches. Flowers rather 

 '"^ large. Fruit subelliptical, rather pointed, 7-9 X 8- 

 10 mm. Seed 2X4 mm.- — PI. 5, 11. 



Central South Carolina and across central Georgia. 

 Specimens examined: Georgia. Milledgeville (Boykiii, 1836). 

 Augusta (Cuthbcrt, 1877). Belair (Eggcrt, 1899). Big Lott's 

 Creek (Harper, Qd^, igoi). Columbia County iChapiiian) . Thom- 

 son (Bartlctt, 11/ 4, 1907). 



N. AT0P0C.\RPA Bartlett. Rhodora. 11: 81. 1909. 



Leaves 2-4 mm. wide. Inflorescence unbranched or /-r~\ 



simply panicled. Fruit more or less unsvmmetricallv ] / sL^ 

 obovate, shallowly notched, or pointed, scarcely inflated, 4i' ' ^ J 

 5X6 mm. Seed 3X4 mm. ""'" """^ 



Eastern Florida. 



Specimens examined: Florida. Eau Gallic (Ciirtiss, 3702, 

 1896, — the type; 2Q^/). Without locality (?Riigc}. 124, 1842-9; 

 Chapfiiaii). Tacoi {Palmer, j66, 18/4: Garber, 18/6) . Tampa Bay 

 (Burrozi's). 



