Graniina. Lin. — Graminese. Juas. Brown. 



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* This very characteristic plate of a grass growirig in Barbados 

 is, by all the authors I have met with, referred to Chloris radiata, 

 with the epithet pessima allfixcd to it ; an exanipic of the evil of 

 following authority in the quotation of synonyms. Sloane's plate 

 of a grass with four spikes disposed crosswise would, indeed, be 

 a very bad representation of Chloris radiata, with very many 

 fascicled spikes^ had it ever been intended as a figure of that grass. 



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nata. 



R. culmo repente, spicis plerumque qua- 

 tuor, radii triangulari mucronata, spi- 

 culis subquadrifloris, gluma exteriore 



mucronata. Roem. Syst. 2, p, 618. % 

 Chloris mucronata. Mick* Amer. \.p. 59. 



Dactyloctenium meridionale. Ilatn. 



ProcL 6. 

 Grarnen dactylou spicis graciliovibus. 



SI I. p. 111.^. 6a/ 3.* 

 Mucronate Rhabdochloa, StvceL 

 cruviata, R. spicis subquatcrnis cruciatis, calycinis 



valvulis acuminatis, oris vaginarum gla- 

 bris. Jioem. S7/,st. 2, p. 617. % 



Chloris cruciata. Willd. Sp. PL 4. p. 923. 



Swtz. FL 192, 

 Cross-spiked Rhabdoqhloa, Sweet. 



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