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BRIEFER ARTICLES. 



NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN GRASSES. 



III. NEW SPECIES OF WILLK.OMMIA. (wiTH TWO FIGURES.) 



Willkommia texana Hitchc, n. sp. — A tufted perennial. Culms 

 smooth, a foot or two high, erect from a decumbent base. Radical 



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Fig. I. — Willkommia texana Hitchc 



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