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Tricuspis acuminata Munro; Vasey, 111. N. A. Gr. i : Part 2, 32 

 (1891). 



In dry, stony limestone ground at Kerrville, altitude 1650-1700 feet. 

 Usually growing in bunches. 



April 23 (1637). 

 Sieglingia congesta Dewey, Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 2 : 538 (1894). 



Growing on the edge of depressions in the stiff, black " waxy land " 

 between Corpus Christi and the Oso, altitude 35 feet. Prostrate, not 

 plentiful. 



March 21 (1486). From type locality. Type in U. S. Nat. Herb. 



ERAGROSTIS Beauv. Agrost. 70, /. 14, f. n (1812). 



Eragrostis lugens Nees, Agrost. Bras. 507 (1829). 



On the stony edge of the bluff overlooking the Guadalupe, at Kerrville. 

 Only a few clumps seen, altitude 1650 feet. 



May 14 (1745) ; type locality, South America. 

 Eragrostis capillaris (L.) Nees, Agrost. Bras. 505 (1829). 



Poa capillaris L. Sp. PI. 68 (1753). 



On the edge of a water hole at Corpus Christi, altitude 40 feet. Scarce. 

 May 30 (1803) ; type locality, Virginia. 



Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) B. S. P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 69 (1888). 

 Poa hypnoides Lam. Tabl. Encycl. i : 185 (1791). 

 Poa reptans Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 69 (1803). 

 Eragostis reptans Nees, Agrost. Bras. 514 (1829). 

 Creeping and forming matted masses in and on the edges of dried up 

 water holes at Corpus Christi, altitude 40 feet. 



March 17 (1455). 

 Eragrostis interrupta (Nutt.) Trelease. 



Poa interrupta Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II.') 5: 146 (1837). 

 Eragrostis oxylepis Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. (Whipple Exped.) 4: 



156(1857). 



A few scattered plants in open grassy pasture lands, near Gregory, 

 San Patricio county, April 14 (1581), 35 feet, and on the edge of a 

 water hole at Corpus Christi in black waxy land, altitude 40 feet. 



May 30 (1802); type locality, Arkansas. 

 Eragrostis major Host. Gram. Austr. 4: 14, /. 24 (1809). 

 Briza Eragrostis L. Sp. PI. 70 (1853). 

 Eragrostis poaeoides var. megastachya A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 631 



(1867). 

 Eragrostis Eragrostis MacM. Met. Minn. 75 (1892), not Karst. 



