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GRAMINEAE. 



ANDROPOGON L. Sp. PL 1045 (i753)- 



[SORGHUM Pers. Syn. i : 101 (1805).] 

 [CHRYSOPOGON Trin. Fund. Agrost. 187 (1820).] 



Andropogon Halapensis CL.) Brot. Flor. Lusit. i : 89 (1804). 

 Holcus Halapensis L. Sp. PI. 1047 (1753). 

 Sorghum Halapense Pers. Syn. i : 101 (1805). 



Common in cultivation under the name of "Johnson grass," but 

 naturalized in many places. Vigorous plants were seen on the stony 

 banks of the Guadalupe, altitude 1630 feet, at a distance from culti- 

 vated ground. San Antonio, Bexar county, altitude 600 feet, on the 

 edge of a cultivated field. 



May 5 (1706). 

 Andropogen saccharoides Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i : 205 (1797). 



A few plants collected in a grassy level place along the San Antonio, 

 altitude 600 feet, but an abundance of it was seen on the stony sloping 

 left bank of the Gaudalupe, at Kerrville, altitude 1630 feet. 



May 5 (1704); type locality, S. Jamaica. 



NAZIA Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 31 (1763). 

 [TRAGUS Hall. Hist. Stirp. Helv. 2: 203 (1768).] 



[LAPPAGO Schreb. Gen. 55 (1789).] 



Nazia racemosa (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 780 (1891). 

 Cenchrus racemosus L. Sp. PL 1049 (1753). 

 Lappago racemosa Willd. Sp. PL i : 484 (1798). 

 Growing prostrate in the sand, along the beach of Corpus Christi Bay, 

 the spreading plants growing comparatively close together. Seen at only 

 one place near the upper end of the Bay at sea level. 

 May 29 (1794). 



PASPALUM L. Syst. Ed. 10, 2: 855 (1759). 

 Paspalum pubiflorum Rupr. ex Galeotti, Bull. Acad. Brux. 9: 237 



(1842). 



At San Antonio in cultivated ground it was rather stout and inclined 

 to be prostrate, while in rich shady ground along Town Creek at Kerr- 

 ville it grew in clumps with long, spreading ascending stems, two or 

 three feet long. 



San Antonio, Bexar county, May 5 (1699); Kerrville, Kerr county, 

 June 16 (1872). 



