CHLOUIDE^ 401 



tiflora Vasey, MS,, but corrected us above in Coult. Bot. Guz. 16: 



)il)2 (1891). 

 * Mississippi (Ocean Si)rin<(s), Trnry; Texas Acullei/. 



85. (172). Campulosus Desv. Hull. Soc. Philom. 2: 189 (1810). 

 Cfeuiutii Panz. Deukschr. Acad. Muench. 1813, 288, /. 13 (1814). 

 MoHOcera Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 170 (1817). Cainpuloa Desv. 

 Journ. Bot. 1:69 (1813). Monathcra lialiii. Am. Monthly Ma-,'. 

 190(1819). 



Spikelets 1-3-flowered, slender, sessile, crowded, pectinate in 2 

 rows on one side of a curved rachis, rachilla articulate above the 

 lower glumes, lower flower perfect, the upjjcr slaminatc or neutral. 

 First empty glume small, slender, almost hyaline, keeled, awnloss, 

 second larger, membranous or firm, 2-3-uerved, acute or briefly bi- 

 fid, tlie middle nerve spreading horizontally from the back as a stout 

 recurved awn or reduced to a tubercle, third and fourth glumes 

 em{)ty or including narrow palea^ often long-ciliate, with an erect 

 awn below the apex, shorter and more slender tlum the second; fifth 

 or floral glume shorter and more slender than the empty ones, 

 clothed with long hairs with a slender awn below the apex. The 

 1-2 upi)er glumes narrow, empty or enclosing narrow palea>. Sta- 

 mens 3. Styles distinct, stigmas feathery. Grain oblong, without 

 a groove, loosely included by the glume, but not adherent; pericarp 

 easily removed from the seed. 



Blades broad or narrow, flat or convolute. 



Spikes solitary, rarely 2-3 in number, terminal, erect, sessile, 

 often curved. 



There are seven species known, of 

 which 4 are American and 3 African. 



The spikelets are elegantly pectinate, 

 but when carefully examined are very 

 distinct from Ilarpcchloa or Bouteloua. 



1. C. aromaticus (Walt.) Scribn. 



Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 5:45 (1894). 



iir ,. Til r. cnr\ -^^o. 71. — ('ampulosus nro- 

 ^Ff/ilops aromatica \Valt. 1^1. tar. ^49 maiicus. Spikelet. (Kich- 



(1788). Chloris monosfachya Michx. nidsou.) 



Fl. Bor. Am. 1:59 (1803). Campulosus monostachyos Beauv. 



