760 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



Ge<)R(;i': Vasey. New <rijisses. 



liofariical Gazette, xvi, 1891. \ip. 2(i. T, . 



Two new sllCl•i(^s and one variety arc (Uvscrilicil Tlit; new .sjtecies are Sporuhvlim pilom-t and 

 Jiuuteloua vnifltira. 

 Gkohgk Vasey. Notes on Mclica iiiul Vou. 

 Torrei/ Botanical Club, xvil, 1890. ji. 178. 



This is a defense of liis <>oiirs(> in retaining iirtain species in 7'on wlileli luid recently been 

 referred to Melica. 



C;k()1{(;k Vasky, Grasses of the SontbAvest. IMates aud deseriptions of the orasses 

 of the desert region of western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and sonthern Cali- 

 fornia. 



Dept.of A(/r. Bull., Div. Bot.. Ko. 12. jit. 1. Octolier U, 1890, p. (50). with .50 plates. 

 Tliis Inilletin is to constitnte tlie first half of the first vohnno of a work entitled •Illustrations 

 of North American Grasses." Fifty rare grasses from the desert region of the sonthwest are de- 

 s(M-il)ed and figured. 

 The following list comi)rises the grasses figured : 



.4 cyopogon gem hi i/tonm. 

 A iidropm/nii eh-iliatim. 

 hiftijloni.'i. 

 naeclianiidef!. 

 WvUjhtii. 

 Aristkla arizonica. 



(livaneata. 

 Biftitelinia areiinsa. 



an'.stUloide.s. 

 Bitrlei. 

 eriopoda. 

 ■Ifanardii. 

 Iiii.<ivta. 

 Uiiinboldtiana. 

 oligostachi/a. 

 pro.1t rata, 

 racemosa. 

 ramosa. 

 utrieta. 

 trifida. 

 Buchloe dactjiloides. 

 ('athestecum, erectuni. 

 Cenchnis myosuroides. 



tritniloide.i. 

 ('hloriti alba. 



ciliata. 



Cliloris cvcullata. 



glauca. 



verticillata. 

 Elionurua barbicidmis, 

 Kpicanipes m acrov ra . 



rig ens. 

 Kremoe.hloe Bigelowii. 



Kingli. 

 Eriocldaa serie.ea. 

 Heteropogon contortu.i. 

 nUaria cenehroide-i. 



miitica. 

 Melica diffusa. 



I'orteri. 

 Muhlenhergia dintichopln/lla. 



gracilis. 

 J'anieutii bidbomiiii. 



ciliotig.si>nuui. 

 lachnantlrum. 

 Set aria can data. 

 iStenotaphrum Amei ieaninn. 

 Stipa flexiiosa. 

 Thurberia A rka nmn a . 

 Trachypogoii polymorplni.i. 

 Tragus iaeemo.\in\ 



George Vasey and J. N. Rose. Scientilic results of explorations liy the II. S. Fish 

 Comniissiou steamer Albatrosfi. No. xvi. Plants collected in 1889 at Socorro 

 and Clarion Islands, Pacific Ocean. 



Proc. U. .S'. Xat. Mus., xm, No. 811, Sei.t.'uili.'r 9. ls.)0, p.). 14;, 114. 

 George Vasey and J. N. Rose. A new .Vstcr IVoni California. 

 Bofaiiieal Gazette, xvi, 1891, p. 111!. 

 Axter Orcuttia is here, descrihed and figure, 1. 



George Vasev ami .1. N. Rose. List of i>lants cidlected by Dr. Kdward Palmer in 

 1890 in Lower California and western Mexico, at La Paz, San Pedro Martin 

 I.slaiul, Raza Island, Santa Rosalia and "Santa Agneda, and- Giiaymas. 



Oiintribiifiiiiis/rnia the V. S. .Xational Herhariviii. i, No. :i. Xovemlier, lS!tO. ]ip. (i:i-',Mi (with 

 index). 



Tliis papcM- is a report on 173 si)ecies (-(dleclcd at the aliovi^ localities, iiicliidiii<; t lie collector's 

 notes witli remarks on r;ire species. 



The following are tlie names of the new sjiecies, de.scrihed by Dr. J.N. Ko.se: 



Acacja Wlllardiana. 

 A triplex iagularln. 

 Birginia J'almeri. 

 Bidens Xuntiaiia. 

 Gceialpiiiia sp. 

 ('alopliane,s Califomica . 

 (juhyplianeft peiiinsularia. 



Cordia JTatsoni. 

 fJoulterella capUala . 

 Euphorbia blcpha roritipida. 

 Fagonia Paliiieri. 

 Gilia SoiiorcK. 

 IJerma niria Palm "ri . 

 Houstiiiiin Braiidigeaiia. 



