214 BULLETIN 772, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



nut brown, as long as the glume, the pale margins very narrow, in- 

 folding the palea its entire length. 



Perennial erect grasses with short 

 creeping rhizomes, narrow, firm, flat 

 blades, the uppermost much reduced, and 

 narrow panicles, the slender branches 

 ascending or appressed. Species two, on 

 the Coastal Plain of the southeastern 

 United States. 



Type species: Phalaris rillosa Michx. 

 Anthaenaiitia Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 48, pi. 10, 

 f. 7. 1812. Phalaris villosa is the only species 

 mentioned. 



Aulaxanthus Ell., Bot. S. C. and Ga. 1: 102. 

 1816. Two species are described, A. ciliatus and 

 A. rufus. The first, which 

 is the same as Anthaenantia 

 villosa, is accepted as the 

 type. 



Aulaxia Nutt, Gen. PI. 1: 

 47. 1818. Nuttall changes 

 Elliott's name Aulaxanthus 

 to Aulaxia. 



Anthaenantia villosa 

 (Michx.) Beauv. (fig. 

 128), with comparatively 

 short, spreading blades 

 and usually pale panicle, 

 and A. rufa (Ell.) 

 Schult., with long erect 

 blades and usually pur- 

 ple panicle, are of no 

 economic importance. 



FIG. 128. Anthaenantia villosa. Plant, X I ; spikelet and fertile floret, X 10. 

 109. VALOTA Adans. 



Spikelets lanceolate, in pairs, short-pediceled, in two rows along 

 one side of a narrow rachis; first glume minute, glabrous; 



