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POACE.E. 



long; terminal empty glume on a raeliilla 1.5 mm. long, bearing a 

 very sliort awn. drain less than 2 mm. long. 

 Florida, Cio'/iKs 3442. 

 Delaware and southward. 



89. (179). SCHEDONNARDUS Stcud. Flora, 33:;2-28, 229 (1850) 

 name; Syn. PI. (J ram. 140 (1855). 



Spikelets 1 -flowered, acuminate, sessile in the excavations on 2 

 sides of a 3-sided rachis, rachilla very short, articulate above the 

 lower glumes, not bearing a llower, flower perfect. Empty glumes 

 2, unequal, 1-nerved, narrow, membranous, acuminate; floral glume 

 longer, firm, membranous, 3-nerved, pointed, enclosing the palea 

 and the flower. Styles distinct. Grain linear, included by the 

 glume and palea. but not adherent. 



A tufted annual. Spikes 3-10 in number, simple, slender, 

 spreading on the curved axis. 



Species 1, belonging to North America. The genus is more 

 nearly allied to (ri/intiuj>o(/on than to Lepturus Nutt. 



1. S. paniculatus (Nutt.) 'IVelease, Branner t!t Coville, IJep. 

 Geol. Surv. Ark. 1888, Part 4, 23G (1891). Lepturus paniruJalufi 

 Nutt. Gen. 1:81 (1818). RoitkeUia panicuhia Spreug, Syst. 1 

 300 (1825). Schedoniutnlus Texanus Steud. 1. c. 



Culms 20-60 cm. high, naked above. Lig- 

 ule ovate, over 1 mm. long; blades numerous 

 below, narrow, keeled, conduplicate, twisted, 

 3-5 cm. long. Spikes 3-10 in number, re- 

 curved, secund, distant, 3-9 cm. long. First 

 empty glume ovate, 1 mm. long, with an awn 

 half its length, second ovate-lanceolate, 2 

 mm. long, with a very short awn; floret 

 cylindrical, acuminate, over 3 mm. long; floral 

 glume elliptical-lanceolate, the lower part 



sparsely hairy; palea with 2 nerves near each 

 Fig. To. — ScJud'iinardus ,i . t • , ,i -n i • 



pamcdatius. ^1, Spike- o"ier extending into the cusps, silky hairy 



let; b, floral glume; c, qh .^mj i)etween the nerves. Grain cvliu- 

 l>aleii; d, flower. 



drical. 



Illinois, J/ea(/; Kansas, CV/^ifty; Colorado, J. WoJfe 1178: Mon- 



