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Memoirs Ih'riiicc P. Bislwp .Uusciiin 



panicle as in C". Iiilcscciis. but rather more slender, yellow, purple, or greenish: bristles mostly 

 8 to 12 below each spikelet. yellow or purple, i to 3 times or even as much as 6 times as long 

 as the spikelcts. antrorscly scabrous; spikelets 2 to 2.5 mm. long, otherwise about as in 

 ('. liilcsccns (fig. 100). 



This species diti'er.s from ('. Iiitcscciis in lacing perennial and in the wiry or 



less succitleixt base of the culms. 



(Irassland and waste places; introduced. Originally described from 



(lUadeloupe. 



Kauai: Olokele Gulch, liitclicock 15249. Hanapepe River, Heller 2469. With- 

 out locality, Remy 106 (Gray Herbarium). 



Oahu : Xuuanu Pali, Hitchcock 13783, 14054. Xuuanu \'alley, Forbes 1523. 

 Mt. Tantalus, Hitchcock 13880, 14077. 



Hawaii: lliio, Newel! in 1917. 



Figure gg. — Coi.\ lriclir\ ma-jobi. From U. S. Dcpt. Ayr. P.iiU. 772, 

 fig- 174- 



[no] 



Figure 100. — Chaetochloa geniculata. From 

 Contr. V. S. Xat. Herb. Vol. 22. tig. 41. 



