FESTUCEiE. 



455 



M. littoralis Eiiyclm. 1. c. 



Culms firm, much bniuched, erect or creeping, 12-20 cm. high. 

 Leaf-bhides rigid, curved, couduplicate, obtuse, many-nerved, 

 mostly crowded on the short branches. Floral glumes 9-12- 

 nerved above. 



Florida, Ourtiss 3646, Garber; Texas, U. S. Dept. Agricnl. 

 560; southern California, Palmer 123. 



This has been compared to Bidhilis on account of its unisexual 

 spikelets and creeping habit, but the two sexes are very similar to 



Fig. 87. — MonanthocMo'e littoralis. Spikelets, (After En geL) 



each other in this genus, and there is no indication in the inflores- 

 cence of any affinity with Chloridea?. 



102. (214). MUNROA Torn Pac. E. E. Eept. 4: 158 (1856). 



Spikelets 2-3 together, in small sessile leafy clusters at the 

 ends of numerous brflnches, each about 3-flowered, rachilla articu- 

 late above the lower glumes, the upper flower imperfect. Empty 



