VOL. XI, NO. 5.—BOTANICAL GAZETTE—MAY, 1886. 
Scribneria, gen. nov. 
AUCTORE E, HACKEL. 
WITH PLATE V. 
Tribus—Hordeex, Benth & Hook. Gen. Plant. III. 1093. 
Subtribus Lepturez, Benth. & Hook. 1. ce. p. 1094. 
Spicule uniflore in spica simplici ad nodos haud excavatos 
rhacheos demum articulate solitarise vel rarius versus basin 
te, rhacheos faciei parelle inserte, rhachiJla brevissima supra 
parum inequales, carina excentrica, ita ut latus anterior cujusvis 
glume 2-nervis, posterior enervis evadat. Gluma florens vacuis 
tertia parte brevior, membranacea, carinata, bidentata, ex incis- 
ura aristam rectam glumas vacuas superantem exserens, callo 
barbato. Palea illam subsuperans, tenuis, bicarinata, acute biden- 
tu I 
ties breviore, hac ex apice aristata. Kralikia, que callo barbato 
Dedicavi genus hoc F. Lamsonio Scribnero de graminibus 
americanis optime merito, qui primus discrimina inter hoc et 
Lepturi genus in litteris ad me indicavit. 
pecies unica: Seribneria Bolanderi Hack. (Lepturus Bo- 
landeri Thurber in Proc. Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences 
Vii: p- 401). California, Oregon. 
ExpLaNation oF Piate V.—Fig. 1. A plant, slightly reduced 
Fig. & A portion of the rhachis showing two spikelets in situ. 
ig, iew. : 
Fig. 4. The same, a view of the sides opposed to the rhachis. 
Fig. 5. The empty glumes of these ze. anterior View. | 
Fig. 6. One of the spikelets with a short pedicel, exterlor view. 
