No. 11. 

 ORYZOPSIS FIMBRIATA Hemsl. (Sfipafimhriata Kth.) 



Culms tufted with many root leaves at ba.se, erect, .striate, smooth, slender, 1 to 

 2 feet tall. 



Leaves of stem 2 to 4; lower sheaths much sliorter than internodes, closely 

 wrap})ing the culm with the membranaceous inner fold ; blade filiform, involute, 

 2 line wide, I to o inches long, much exceeded by the involute setaceous root leaves; 

 ligule conspic^uous, obtuse, wider than blade, 1 line long. 



Inflorescence a loose, erect, or spreading panicle, 4 to 6 inches long; rachis angu- 

 lar, sliglitly scabrous, flexuous toward apex, branches in twos or threes, spreading ' 

 or lower ones even deflexed, filiform, I to % inches long, each bearing 2 to 4 spike- 

 lets on pedicels 3 to 5 lines long. 



Spikelets obovate, 2 to 2i lines long; first glume broadly lanceolate, upper 

 half scarious witli acuminate apex, often purplish, 5-nerved, smooth, 2 to 2i lines 

 long; second glume same but slightly smaller; floral glume coriaceous, orbicular, 

 obscurely 5-rferved, covered with loose white hairs kniger at base, and bearing a 

 smooth flexuous awn 5 to 8 lines long; palet obovate, acuminate, 2-nerved, 1^ lines 

 long. 



Plate XI: a, spikelet dissected and enlarged; b, panicle at maturity. 



Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. 



