GRASSES OF IOWA. 201 



Slater, Turin, 778 New Albin, Boone, Carroll, Dakota City, Ledyard, 

 Hawarden, Turin (Pammel) ; Ames (C. A. Wilson, Reynolds, Crozier, 

 Beardslee, Kaufman, Hitchcock, Bessey, Rich and Gossard, Pammel, 

 Sirrine) ; 1051 Armstrong (Cratty) ; Sioux City (Miss Wakefield); 

 Iowa City (Hitchcock); 1156 Alden (Stevens); Des Moines (Car- 

 ver); Newton (Misses Cavanagh and Dilne) ; High Bridge, Dallas 

 County (Shimck) ; Iowa City (Macbride) ; Hamilton to Hancock 

 County (Preston); Johnson County (Armstrong, Shimek, Parry); 

 Nevada (Pammel); Slater ( Fawcett and Tener) ; Sioux City 

 (Shimek). 



North America. From Nova Scotia through New England; 

 Massachusetts (Sears), to New York (Washington County, Parry); 

 south to New Jersey, Ohio (Columbus, Sullivant) ; Tennessee, Ala- 

 bama, Missouri (St. Louis, Eggert), Nebraska ( McCook, Pammel), 

 Iowa, Minnesota (Centre City, Sandberg, 671), South Dakota (Water- 

 town, Holsinger), Wisconsin (La Crosse, Pammel), Illinois (Evanston, 

 Pammel). 



4. SCHEDONNARDUS. 



Schedonnardus Steud. Flora. 33: 228, 229. 1850. Syn. PI. Glum. 1: 146. 

 1855. Bentham & Honker Gen. PL 3: 1167. Hackel in Engler & Prantl. Nat. 

 Pflanz. Fam. II. 2: 59. Scribner. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agrl. Div. Agros. 20: 

 105. /. 79. 



Lepturiis sec. Schedonnardus in part. Endlicher. Gen. PI. 104. 



Spikelets small, acuminate, 1 -flowered, appressed-sessile and scat- 

 tered along one side of the slender rachis of the distant, sessile and divari- 

 cately spreading spikes. Empty glumes persistent, narrow, acuminate, 

 more or less unequal, the longer usually a little shorter than the rather 

 rigid, acuminate, flowering one. Stamens 3. Styles distinct. Grain 

 linear. A low, slender annual, branching from the base, with short, 

 narrow leaves. ( Name the Greek word for near, and Nardus, from its 

 resemblance to that genus.) 



Monotypic genus. In North America from the Plains region to 

 the Pacific coast, most abundant on the plains. 



1. SCHEDONNARDUS PANICULATUS. 



Schedonnardus paniculatus Trelease in Branner & Coville. Rept. Geol. 

 Surv. Ark. 1888: 236. 1891. 



Schedonnardus paniculatus (Nutt.) Trelease Beal. Grasses N. Am. 2: 

 412. 1896. Scribner. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agrl. Div. Agros. 7: 199. f. 193. 



