96 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
fructified pistillate flowers make very little growth from October 
to the following spring, at which time the fruit begins to develop, 
and by November is mature ; being near twelve months from the 
first appearance of the bud until full anthesis, and twelve months 
more from anthesis to the perfect fruit. 
Notes on Eriochloa. 
BY GEORGE VASEY. 
Kunth founded the genus Eriozhloa on the specimens of Hum- 
boldt’s American collection, and in Humboldt’s Nov. gen. et Sp. 
afterwards, describing the genus, he says the spikelets are tw0- 
Kunth’s description was probably made so as to include the Pan- 
h 
icum molle of Michaux. An examination of our specimens, 25 
membranaceous two-nerved palet. In Kunth’s description this 
character is referred to in his expression. “ varius bipaleaceo, 
masculo.” 
Mr. Bentham in the Flora Australiensis describing Erioch- 
loa says, spikelets one flowered. Bent . and Hook., in Gener@ 
Plantarum say the same. The uestion arises as to where di 
it or has referred it to Panicum, But it does not fit in any 0 
the sections of Panicum, and is in all respects a good Eriochloa 
with a second flower, and the character of the genus should be 
altered to admit it. 
The Eriochloa annulata No. 3,600* of Curtiss’s distribution a 
agrees with the E, mollis in having two-flowered spikelets. WheD — 2 
I first received it from Mr, Curtiss I was inclined to call it @ - 
