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Cynodon curtipendula Raspail, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. 5: 303. 1825. Based on 



Dineba curtipendula Beauv. 

 Cynodon melicoides Raspail, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. 5: 303. 1825. Based on 



Bouteloua melicoides Beauv. 

 Andropogon curtipendulus Spreng.; Steud., Nom. Bot. ed. 2. 1: 90. 1840, as 



synonym of Eutriana curtipendula Trin. 

 Eutriana affinis Hook, f., Linn. Soc. Trans. 20: 174. 1851. St. Louis, Mo.; 



Texas, Drummond. 

 Heterostegon curtipendula Schwein., in Hook, f., Linn. Soc. Trans. 20: 175. 1851, 



as synonym of Eutriana affinis. North America, Schweinitz; Missouri and 



Texas, Drummond. 

 Bouteloua curtipendula var. aristosa A. Gray, Man. ed. 2. 553. 1856. Illinois, 



Geyer. 

 Atheropogon curtipendulus Fourn., Mex. PI. 2: 138. 1886. Based on Bouteloua 



curtipendula A. Gray [error for Torrey]. 



Atheropogon medius Fourn., Mex. PL 2: 139. 1886. Mexico, Liebmann 581. 

 Atheropogon affinis Fourn., Mex. PI. 2: 141. 1886. Based on Eutriana affinis 



Hook. f. 

 Bouteloua racemosa var. aristosa Wats, and Coult.; Gray, Man. ed. 6. 656. 



1890. Illinois, Geyer. 

 (5) Bouteloua eludens Griffiths, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 14: 401. 1912. 



Santa Rita Mountains, Ariz., Griffiths 7269. 

 (16) Bouteloua eriopoda (Torr.) Torr., U.S. Rept. Expl. Miss. Pacif. 4: 155. 



1856. Based on Chondrosium eriopodum Torr. 

 Chondrosium eriopodum Torr., in Emory, Notes Mill. Reconn. 154. 1848. 



Del Norte [Rio Grande] River, N.Mex., [Bigelow]. 

 Bouteloua brevifolia Buckl., Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1862: 93. 1863. 



Northwestern Texas [Wright 748, Fendler 950]. 

 (8) Bouteloua filiformis (Fourn.) Griffiths, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 14: 413. 



1912. Based on Atheropogon filiformis Fourn. 

 Bouteloua juncifolia Vasey, Descr. Cat. Grasses U.S. 62. 1885. Name only, 



Texas [Havard 89] to Arizona. (B. humboldtiana Griseb., doubtfully cited, 



is B. heterostega (Trin.) Griffiths of the West Indies.) 

 Atheropogon filiformis Fourn., Mex. PL 2: 140. 1886. Mexico, Karwinsky 



991b. 

 (14) Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Lag.; Steud., Nom. Bot. ed. 2. 1: 219. 1840. 



Based on Chondrosium gracile H.B.K. 

 Chondrosium gracile H.B.K., Nov. Gen. and Sp. 1: 176. pi. 58. 1816. 



Mexico, Humboldt and Bonpland. 

 Actinochloa gracilis Willd.; Roem. and Schult., Syst. Veg. 2: 418. 1817. 



Based on Chondrosium gracile H.B.K. 

 Atheropogon oligostachyus Nutt., Gen. PL 1: 78. 1818. Plains of the upper 



Missouri [Nuttall]. 

 Eutriana gracilis Trin., Gram. Unifl. 240. 1824. Based on Actinochloa 



gracilis Willd. 

 Atheropogon gracilis Spreng., Syst. Veg. 1: 293. 1825. Based on Chondrosium 



gracile H.B.K. 



Eutriana oligostachya Kunth, ReV. Gram. 1: 96. 1829. Based on Athero- 

 pogon oligostachyus Nutt. 

 Chondrosium gracile var. polystachyum Nees, Linnaea 19: 692. 1847. Mexico, 



Aschenborn 153. [Spikes 2 or 3.] 

 Chondrosium oligostachyum Torr., in Marcy, Expl. Red Riv. 300. 1852. 



Based on Atheropogon oligostachyum Nutt. 

 Bouteloua oligostachya Torr.; A. Gray, Man. ed. 2. 553. 1856. Based on 



Atheropogon oligostachyus Nutt. 

 Bouteloua oligostachya var. intermedia Vasey, Grasses U.S. 33. 1883. Name 



only. Texas to Arizona. 

 Bouteloua major Vasey, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 14: 9. 1887. Name only, for 



a plant grown from seed collected in Mexico by Palmer. 

 Bouteloua oligostachya var. major Vasey; L. H. Dewey, Contrib. U.S. Natl. 



Herb. 2: 531. 1894. Texas to Arizona [type, Lemmon 427]. 

 Bouteloua oligostachya var. pallida Scribn.; Beal, Grasses N.Amer. 2: 418. 



1896. Mexico, Pringle 407. 

 BOUTELOUA GRACILIS var. STRICTA (Vasey) Hitchc., Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 23: 



454. 1933. Based on B. stricta Vasey. 

 Bouteloua stricta Vasey, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 15: 49. 1888. Western 



Texas, Nealley, scarcely described; U.S.Dept.Agr., Div. Bot. Bull. 12 1 : pi. 



45. 1890. 



