584 GRAMINE^E. (GRASS FAMILY.) 



1. L. AlabamensiS, n. sp. Smooth throughout; culms low (4' -6' high), 

 simple, jointed near the base ; leaves mostly two ; the lowest one 3-4 times the 

 length of the culm ; the elongated purple sheath enclosing the short membraiia- 

 t-eous upper one, and the stalk of the simple few-flowered panicle ; spikelets 

 pale, ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the erect or appressed capillary pedicels ; 

 the staminate and pistillate ones borne on separate culms ; paleae of staminatc 

 spikelet lanceolate, 7 -nerved ; those of the pistillate ovate-lanceolate, 11-13- 

 nerved, much longer than the smooth grain. Brooklyn, Conecuh County, 

 Alabama, J. F. Beaumont. 



60. MONANTHOCHLOE, Engelm. 



A low maritime branching grass, with very short rigid crowded leaves, and 

 diojcious flowers in solitary terminal sessile spikes. Glumes none. Spikes 

 short, 3-5-flowered ; the lowest flower, or the two lower ones, neutral, of 1 -2 

 paleas ; the uppermost abortive ; the intermediate ones, composed of two paleae, 

 triandrous in the staminate, digynous in the pistillate spike. Palea; convolute, 

 scarious and obtuse at the apex ; the lower one rigid, ovate-lanceolate, 9 12- 

 nerved above ; the upper rather longer, 2-keeled or 2-winged on the back. 

 Squamulaj none. Anthers longer than the short filaments, 2-lobed at each end. 

 Ovary lanceolate-linear, 3-angled. Styles 2 : stigmas elongated, plumose with 

 simple hairs. Grain 3-angled, free. 



1. M. littoralis, Engelm. Low sandy shores, South Florida, and west- 

 ward. Culms much branched, 5' - 8' high, smooth and somewhat woody, 

 erect, or at length prostrate and rooting. Leaves 3" long, very rigid, ob- 

 tuse, many-nerved, rough on the margins, mostly crowded at the summit of 

 the short branches, and enclosing the short (3" -4") sessile spikes. Flowers 

 pedicelled. 



