584 GRAMINE.E. (GRASS FAMILY.) 



1. L. Alabamensis, n. sp. Smooth throughout; culms low (4'-C high), 

 simple, jointed near the base ; leaves mostly two ; the lowest one 3-4 times '.he 

 length of the culm; the elongated purple sheath enclosing the short membrana- 

 ceous upper one, and the stalk of the simple few-flowered panicle ; spikclets 

 pale, ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the erect or appresscd capillary pedicels ; 

 the staminate and pistillate ones home on separate culms ; palea; of staminate 

 spikelet lanceolate, 7 -nerved ; those of the pistillate ovate-lanceolate, 11-18- 

 nerved, much longer than the smooth grain. — Brooklyn, Conecuh County, 

 Alabama, ./. F. Beaumont. 



60. MONANTHOCHLOE, Engclm. 



A low maritime hranching grass, with very short rigid crowded leaves, and 

 dicecious 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 

 palese ; the uppermost abortive ; the intermediate ones, composed of two palesc, 

 triandrous in the staminate, digynous in the pistillate spike. Paleae 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-wingcd on the back. 

 Squamulae 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 

 pedicelled. 



