﻿450 Nash : Chloris and Eustachys 



Florida : Lake City, Columbia Co., Geo. V. Nash, July 11-19, 

 1895, no. 2198. Chattahoochee, S. M. Tracy, Aug. 23, 1897, 



no. 3730. 



4. Eustachys neglecta. 



Chloris neglecta Nash, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 22 :423. 1895. 



Culms 7-12 dm. tall, erect, simple, much compressed; nodes 

 3 : basal leaves 6-12, culm leaves usually 1 at each node, some- 

 times 2 at the lower node ; sheaths much compressed, keeled, 

 striate, the basal equitant ; ligule a scarious ciliolate ring about 

 .5 mm. broad; blades folded, at least when dry, 2 dm. or less 

 long, 9 mm. or less wide, linear, obtuse, smooth on both surfaces, 



1.1 • _ m . 11 . 



very 



florescence at length much exserted, the axis less than I cm. long; 

 spikes 4-6, erect or slightly spreading : spikelets, exclusive of the 

 awns, about 3 mm. long : scales 4, rarely 5 ; first scale ob- 

 scurely 2-lobed at the apex, awn-pointed between the lobes, a little 

 broader than, and about two thirds as long as, the second, which, 

 exclusive of the awn, is about 2.5 mm. long, oblong, sparsely 

 pubescent exteriorly, 2-lobed at the apex, the lobes obtuse and 

 minutely and irregularly toothed, the awn about 1 mm. long ; 

 third scale, with the callus pilose, 2.5-2.8 mm. long, in side view 

 about 1 mm. wide and a little inequilateral, the margin more curved 

 than the midnerve, the nerves pilose with hairs about .7 mm. long, 

 the lateral nerves excepting at the base, the midnerve to the base 

 of the awn, which is about 1 mm. long, the palet slightly shorter 

 than the scale ; fourth scale 1.5-2 mm. long, in side view obovate- 

 elliptic and about .75 mm. wide, the awn inserted below the summit, 

 less than 1 mm. long ; fifth scale, when present, triangular, less 

 than .5 mm. long : seed 3-angled, elliptic, about 1.5 mm. long. 



Dry sandy soil, east and peninsular Florida. The type of this 

 species was collected by the writer near Orange Bend, Lake Co., 

 in 1895, no. 2149. The greater number of spikes, the smaller 

 spikelets, and the shorter third scale with its longer hairs at once 

 distinguish this from the above, E. Floridana, to which, in general 

 appearance, it bears much resemblance. 



The following belong here : 



Jacksonville, A. H. Curtiss. 1875. Duval Co., bank of St 

 John's river, A. Fredholm, Oct. 9, 1893, no. 319. Eustis, Lake 

 Co., Geo. V. Nash, July 1-10, 1895, no. 2149 (the type). 



