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Tabl. Encycl. 1: 189 (1791). "Ex. Amer. Merid. Comm., D. Richard." John- 

 son, .Jackson, Riley, Jewell, McPherson, Harper, Ford. 



L. mucronata (Michx.) Kunth. "Gram. 1: 91 (1829-35.)" Eleusine mucro- 

 nata Michx. Fl. Bor. 1: 65 (1803). In cultis Illinoensibus. Bourbon, Labette, 

 Greenwood. 



BULBILIS Raf. Am. Month. Mag. 2: 190 (1819). A review of Nuttall's 

 Genera, "18. Sesleria dactyloides must form a peculiar genus by Mr. N.'s own 

 account. It may be called Bulbilis." 



B. dactyloides (Nutt.) Raf. in Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 763 (1891). Sesleria 

 dactyloides, Nutt. Gen. I, 65 (1818). On the open grassy plains of the Mis- 

 souri. "This species appears on the one hand allied to Atheropogon, and on 

 the other to Dactylis. Though rather a Sesleria than any other genus, it 

 recedes from it in having the valves of the corolla entire at the apex, and thus 

 it approaches Dactylis, at least the D. glomerata." East to Republic, Riley, 

 Cowley, Chase. 



MUNROA Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 4: 158 (1856). Based on the following 

 species: 



M. squarrosa (Nutt.) Torr. 1. c. Crypsis squarrosa Nutt. Gen. I, 49 (1818). 

 On the "plains near the Grand Detour of the Missouri, almost exclusively 

 covering the thousands of acres, and as pungent as thorns." East to Barber, 

 Ellsworth, and Rooks. 



PHRAGMITES Trin. Fund. Agrost. 134 (1820). "Species: Communis 

 (Arundo phragmites L.), etc." 



P. Phragmites Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 379 (1880-1883). Arundo Phragmites 

 L. Spec. 81 (1753). In Europae lacubus fiuviis. Pottawatomie, Hamilton. 



SIEGLINGIA Bernh. "Syst. Verz. Pfl. Erf. 40 (1800)." 



S. pilosa (Buckl.) Scribn., in Litt. Uralepis (Tricuspis) pilosa Buckley, 

 Proc. Acad. Phil. 1862, 94 (1862). Middle Texas. Triodia acuminata Vasey. 

 Special Report No. 63, U. S. Dep. Ag. 1883 (fide Prof. F. L. Scribner). Ham- 

 ilton, Stanton, Stevens, Gove. 



S. purpurea (Walt.) Kuntze. Rev. Gen. 789 (1891). Aira purpurea Walt. 

 Fl. Car. 78 (1788). No locality. Riley, Rooks. 



S. sesleroides (Michx.) Scribn. Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 5: 48 (1894). Poa 

 seslerioides Michx. Fl. Bor. 1: 68 (1803). In regione lUinoensi et in monto- 

 sis carolinae. West to Rooks and Barton. 



REDFIELDIA Vasey. Bull. Torr. Club, 14: 133 (1887). Based upon 

 R. flexuosa (Thurb.) Vasey, 1. c. Graphephorum? flexuosum Thurber, 

 Proc. Acad. Phila., 1863. 78 (1863). (In Gray's Enum. PI. Parry, and Hall and 

 Harbour.) "Dr. J. M. Bigelow collected this grass several years ago on the 

 Canadian river. It is doubtfully referred to Graphephorum as that genus is 

 defined by Doctor Gray in the Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Canada. 

 But the joints of the rhachis are very short, and the tuft of hairs seems rather 

 to belong to the palea." Seward and Logan. 



ERAGROSTIS Beauv. Agrost. 70 (1812). "Spec. Poa cynosuroides? cy- 

 peroides? Eragrostis ferruginea, interrupta, pilosa, iHparia, verticillata, etc." 



E. capillaris (L.) Nees. Agrost. Bras. 505 (1829). Poa capillaris L. Spec. 

 68 (1753). In Virginia, Canada. Johnson to Cherokee, Greenwood, and Mc- 

 Pherson. 



E. caroliniana (Spreng.) Scribn. Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 5: 49 (1894). "Poa 

 caroliniana Spreng. Mant. Fl. Hal. 33 (1807)." Throughout eastern Kansas. 



