Ihlclu'ock — The (,'rasscs of 1 1 await n^j 



Grassy slopes and ridges. Originally described Iruni "insulis Sandwicen- 

 sibus (Alt. 450-500 hexap.)"; /;. zvaliozi'eiisis described from "Ins. W'ahu"; 

 B. equitans from "Ins. Wahu." 

 Kanai: Olokele Gulch, Hitchcock 15274. Ilaupu Range near Nawiliwili Bay, 



Forbes 714. West side W'aimea drainage basin, llalemanu, Forbes 855, 



949; Rock 2180. Kaholuamano, Rock 5131, 12741 ; Hitchcock 15543; 



Heller 2830. Cliffs at Haena, Rodk 17260. W'ainiea, Mann & IJrigham 251. 

 Niihaii: Kalua Keale (from Forbes} in 1912. 

 Oahn : Nuuanu Pali, Heller 1992; Hitchcock 13790, 13791; Forbes 1086, 1087. 



Palolo Valley, Forbes 2403; Hitchcock 14139, 14141, 14142. Kalihi Pali, 



Forbes 2294. Without locality, Wilkes Expl. Exped. ; Mann & Brigham 15, 



218; Remy 89 (Gray Herbarium). 



Molokai : Mauna Loa, Forbes 16. Kalae, Forbes 47. Kaunakakai Gulch, Forbes 

 624. East Molokai, Rock 12736. Wailau, Faurie 1332. Ka Lae o ka 

 Laau, Forbes 58. 



Maui: v'^and hills of Wailuku, Wilkes Expl. Exped. (Gray Herbarium). 



Hawaii: Kilauea Crater, Hitchcock 14611. Road to volcano from south, Hitch- 

 cock 1459 1. Mauna Loa. AVilkes Expl. Exped. (Gray Herbarium ). \\'ith- 

 out locality, Mann & Brigham. 



Laysan: Fullaway in 191 1; Bryan 8730, 8731. Snyder in 1902 (Albatross 

 Haw. Expl.) 



A\'ith(nit locality: Hillebrand: Rnck 12740. 



Aruiuio doiia.v L. Sp. PI. 81, 1753. the giaiil rccd, is cultivated for ornanient and prob- 

 ably will become established. This is a large lierbaceous grass as much as 7 meters tall, with 

 thick knotty rhizomes, flat blades 5 to 7 cm. wide on the main culms, smaller on the branches, 

 and a handsome feathery panicle 30 to 60 cm. long. The conspicuously distichous leaves are 

 distributed rather evenly along the culm. 



S. DACTYLIS L. 



Spikelets few-flowered, compressed, finally disarticulating between the florets, nearly 

 sessile in dense one-sided fascicles, borne at the ends of the few branches of a panicle ; glumes 

 unequal, carinate, acute, hispid-ciliate on the keel : lemmas compressed-keeled, mucronate, 

 5-nerved, ciliate on the keel. Perennials, with flat blades and fascicled spikelets. 



I. Dactylis glomerata L. Sp. PI. 71. 1753. Orchard cr.\ss. 



Culms erect, 6 to 120 cm. tall; blades broadly linear; panicle 7 to 15 cm. long, the few 

 stift" branches naked below, contracted after flowering; spikelets crowded in dense i-sided clus- 

 ters at the ends of the branches (fig. 23). 



Escaped from cultivation in pastures and grassland at upper elevations; 

 introduced. Originally described from Europe. 

 Kauai: West side Waimea drainage basin, I'orbes 1074. 

 Molokai: Central part, Hitchcock 15159. Papaaloa, Forbes 95. 

 Hawaii: Paauhau, Rock 3212. Kukaiau Ranch, Hitchcock 14213. Papaaloa, 



Kona, Forbes 324. 



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