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ICONES PLANTARUM. a) 
Pate 1360.* 
SCHEDONNARDUS TEXANUS, Stew. 
GraMINER, Tribe CHLORIDER. 
S. texanus, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, 1. 146. Lepturus paniculatus, 
Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl. i. 81. 
His. North America, from Texas and New Mexico to California 
and eastward to Illinois, nwmerous collectors. 
secus rhac tenuem alti terna natim sessiles, secun : hs achi arcte 
appresse, exaristate. Rhachilla brevissima, supra glumas inferiores 
articulata, tite florem non producta, flore hermaphrodito. Glume 2 
demum rigidula, mucronulata, paleam angustam breviorem floremque 
oo Lodicule 0. Stamina 3. Styli distincti, stigmatibus 
plumo Oaryopsis linearis, gluma paleaque rigidulis inclusa, libera. 
When Nuttall referred this plant to Leptwrus he was evidently un- 
acquainted with the typical European species, and in the endeavour to 
include them with his American plant drew up a eric character 
which will not apply to either. His description of the species is, how- 
ever, very accurate. Stendel, meeting with Drummond's Texan speci- 
" mens, proposed them as a new genus bof posi reference to Nuttall’s 
well-known plant. The genus appears to to be nearer allied to 
mnopogon than to any other.—G. Br eee. 
Fig. 1. Portion 4 the rhachis with the persistent ge" glumes of two spikelets. 
2. Flowering glum ig palea from the upper spike sl a , 4. Outer empty glumes. 
5. Flowering glume. 6, Palea. 7. Flower. 8. Stam S Caryopsi 
* Accidentally omitted above (p. 43). 
