CHLOHIDE.E. 



395 



rachis, overlapping for about one-half their length ; empty glumes 



luirrow, each with one broad nerve; floral 



ghune liyalino, oval, silky hairy, about 1.5 



nun. long, 3-nerved; palea as long as its 



ghinie, hairy on the keels. Grain oblong, 



smooth. 



Mexico, Pringle 425, Dr. Palmer 198, 

 61 G, .SchaffnerWO. 



It has also the range of the genus. 



A tiny perennial tuft, not rare on plains 

 in Mexico, enjoying the attention of close- 

 nibbling goats. 



83. (170). Capriola Adans. Fam. 2:31 

 (1763.) DiirUhn, Vill. Hist. Pi. Dauph. 

 2: 69 (1787). FihirJita Kw\. Gram. (Jail, et 

 Germ. 308 (1S02). Cynodon IJich. ; Pers. 

 Syn. 1:85 (1805). 



Sjjikelets 1 -flowered, awnless, singly 



sessile in 2 rows on one side of slender 



spikes, digitate at the end of the peduncle, 



rachilla articulate immediately above the 



outer glumes, and either not i)roduccd bevond ^'^* ^^■—Microchloa 



^ ■ setncea A, spikelct; a, 



the floret or continued into a minute point Hoial frlumc; b, piileii. 



beliind the palea. Empty glumes keeled, ^' *'' ""^ '' 

 persistent, or deciduous: floral glume broader, boat-shaped, with a 

 promiiu'nt keel : palea narrow or I'ather broad, the nerves prom- 

 inent, distinct or closely contiguous. Stamens 3. Styles distinct, 

 stigmas clotlied with short hairs. Grain oblong, smooth, enclosed 

 by the glume and i)alea, but not adherent. 



Perennials: tufted, creeping or stoloniferous, with short or 

 rarely long, narrow, flat leaf-blades. 



There are four species found in warm regions. 



The genus has the sleiuler spikes and small spikelets of Micro- 

 cldna, but the spikes are several and digitate and the rachilla is 

 produced beyond the rachis into a small joint or bristle. 



1. C. Dactylon* (L.) Kuntze, Kev. Gen. PI. 764 (1891). 



