Wo. 6. 



PHALARIS INTERMEDIA Bosc. var. ANGUSTA Chap. {P.an- 



(Htsta Noes.). 



Plant pereuuial. rather coarse, usually glaucous throughout. 



Culms somewhat tufted, erect, sometimes brani^hiug below, terete, smooth, or 

 scabrous above, 2 to 4 feet tall. 



Leaves; radical, few, 2 to 4 im-lies long, scarioiis in nuxture specimens; of culm 

 4 or 5; sheaths usually shoi'ter thau iuternodes. rather loose, close, smooth, blades 

 flat, taper-pointed, scabrous on both sides. 3 to 5 lines wide, 3 to (J inches long; 

 ligule prominent, membranaceous, obtuse, lacerate in age, 2 to ."J lines long. 



Inflorescence a dense, cylindrical spike ^ inch in diameter, 2 to 4 inches long: 

 the shortly-pedicellate spikelets crowded on .short, much divided, appressed 

 branches. 



SpiJieJe/s with one perfect flower, and two opposite, small rudimentary scales 

 or glumes below the perfect flower and closely appressed against it, li to 2 lines 

 long: first and second glumes nearly equal, lanceolate, acute, carinate, slightly 

 winged on keel above, herbaceous, hispid on keel, 1| to 2 lines long: flowering 

 glume coriaceous, lanceolate, acute, rounded, completely enveloping grain, clothed 

 throughout with short, appressed, brittle hairs, nearly smooth and shining at ma- 

 turity, light-brown, 1| lines long: palet narrow, pubescent. 1 line long. 1-nerved. 



Grain oval, slightly compressed, and with small hook at apex, whitish, | to 1 

 line long, inclosed in flowering glume from which it is extracted ^vith difficulty. 



Pirate VI; a, empty glumes: b. floral glume: c, jjalet. 



Grows from Florida to Texas and California. In Texas it has been cultivated, 

 and is a very prolific and valuable grass. 



