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in 
Spegazzini (l.c. p. 94) reduces S. Neesiana, Trin. to ‘8. setigera, 
Pres! (non auct. Americae Nordicae!)’’ Unfortunately we do 
. Neesiana, Hitchcock (Gramineae in 
Jepson, “ A Flora of California,”’ 1912, p. 105) accepts S. setigera 
a 
t to Texas and south into Mexico’’; but he omits it from 
his “ Mexican Grasses’’ (in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. vol. xvi. 
part 3, 1913). Such Californian specimens of S. setigera as I 
ave seen are certainly not identical with S. Neesiana and as 
Hitchcock had the opportunity of studying Presl’s types in the 
National Collections at Prague, we may assume that he is right, 
and retain therefore the name of S. V eesiana, Trin. for the South 
American grass. 
The area of S. Neesiana covers parts of Southern Brazil, the 
whole of Uruguay and the Argentine, south to the Rio Negro 
and west to the Andes. According to Spegazzini it is very 
common (vulgatissima) throughout the pampas from the Rio 
Negro to Salta. Stuckert (Graminaceas Argentinas in Anal. 
Mus. Nac. Buenos Ayres, vol xi. (1904), p. 99) says it is fairly 
good fodder, but extremely troublesome when in fruit as the 
sharp hard calli of the spikelets quickly bore themselves into 
the skins of animals, causing painful wounds. The grass is 
at present (August llth) the fine vigorous clump of Stipa 
Neesiana stands. The grass is a perennial and the clump in 
r 
nected with the grass, that a large crop of vigorous date palm 
seedlings has sprung up in the same locality. 
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