BoraNicaL GAZETTE. 
Vow. IX, DECEMBER, 1884. No. 12. 
Se SARE malinebiauke 
A New Eriochlea. 
BY VASEY AND SCRIBNER. 
When in flower, becoming nearly erect. Spikes 1-1} in. long, 
this is the Eriochloa grandiflora, Vasey, in “ Grasses of the 
United States,” p. 11, and in Botan G 
P. 96 (without description). It is quite distinct from the South 
American Z. grandiflora, Benth. (Helopus grandiflorus, Trin. 
ihe flowering glume tipped with a tuft of hairs, instead of the 
stort awn common to the other species of the genus, and the 
Veloped palea, 
Wrignizone (n. 2910 Lemmon, 1882), and N. Mexico (n 2087 C. 
vet: tt part, as per specimens in Dr. A. Gray’s Herbarium at 
Cambridge, . P P ‘ 
XPLANATION bit of plant. 2. Spikelet, showing 
t OF Prare II.—Fig. 1. Habit of plant. 2. Spikelet, 
daclomest glume. 3. Spikelet, shoeing the second glume. 4. Flowering glume, 
fectly ios 5. Anterior view-of floret. 6. The second glume with - ed 
. . 7 . ie 
Grasses pe. emia hag plate is from Prof. Beal’s proposed work on 
merica.) 
