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la, extcrno scritco luibula, fiisccsccns: niistn valvulam siilKliipln (sicl in 

 icone; in descriplionc clicitur scxtuplo ) supcraris, spiralitcr torta, hasi 

 haud articulata. Squam. 3. Caryopsis immatura, oblongo-suhturhinata, 

 ohtusa, glahra, fiisca, intcrne sulco longitudinall exarata, cxternc sub 

 apicc basibus stylorum distantium notata» (Kunih ad spcc. Ilunib. Alc- 

 \ir. 1829. 1835) 



In spcciniinc Mcxicano Ilerb. Sprcngclii nominc Milii mexicani , (iii 

 h. Willd.' adscripsit : Awnn sdpoides Humh. , quod autcni a Slipa Jim- 

 brialn HBK. vix din'cri, scquentia ohscrvantur: C?t/m?« (pars suppetens) 

 tenuis, erecfus, simplcx, ad nodos glabros levitcr geniculatus, sub pa- 

 nicula satis longa nudiis. Vafi^inae striatae, glabrae. Lis^iila membranacea. 

 ohtusa , hrcvis. Foliitm siipr<iniim fqiiod sohim adcst) linearc, angustis- 

 simum, dimldiam lincam latum, altcnuatum, planuin, glahrum, dlgltalc. 

 Panicnla spltbamca, patula, lucida. Axis communis tenuls, subangulatus 

 flexuosulus, glaber. Radii blnl, subcaplllares, a mcdio florlfcri, glahri, 

 radiolls simpllclusculis, plerumque blfloris. Pedicel/i longltudine splcu- 

 lae, scabrl. Spiculae ohovatae, turgldulac, hlllnealcs, purpurasccntes. 

 Glumae tenul-membranaccac, acquales, satls latac, brevl-acuminatae, flos- 

 culo paullo longiorcs, aetate dcmum apicc laccrae, blncrvcs. Flosculus 

 subovato-elliptlcus, comprcsslusculus , totus hlrtulus, baslquc acuta pl- 

 lis brevlbus circumcirca harhulatus, coriaccus, dcciduus, 2 lineas lon- 

 gus. Valvula inferior 3-ncrvIs, aplcc subcuccnlata, ad anguliim (a mar- 

 glnlhus conniventihus formatum) pills 2 rigidnlis , acumcn brcve re- 

 praescntantlbus ohsita, ipso aiitcm apice truncatulo aristam emittens 



parum tortllcm, gcniculato-flcxuosulam, valvula diiplo ct ultra longlorcm. 

 pcrsistentcm: mlvula superior Inclusa, acquilonga, angustior, corlacea, 

 apice cuccidato In mucroncm cornuformem exlens, ncrvis 2 prominulls 

 parallcllis notata. An Uracbnc generis? oh callum dcprcssisslmum, scd 

 flosculi non glbbl, nec a latere compressi, neque iuhcrculati aut slrlati. 



