80 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
eben te grass, with the aspect of a Mulenbergia or of a Polypogon, but with 
comaof silky hairs episie bt the flower, as in a Calamagrostis. Culm a foot 
dud a half high, from a creeping rhizoma, retrorsely pubescent at the nodes. 
: short, fri 
i 4 inches long, green, rough on both sides. Panicle lead-colored, 
about 3 inches long; the branches solitary, appressed, densely many-flowered. 
age ts very wtb Moiese compressed, pubescent, a line and a-half 
Glumes narrow, very acute, serrulate on the*ke St ie e lower a little 
ie longer. Awn rough and Hesudie, purplish, three or sane fuse long.— 
Thurber>~ 
al FILICES. 
87. Asprpium Finix-mas, Swartz. ; appare ner Shy ae with the Huropean 
plant. ss parahlatey  Acegere CHOIDES, by Sir Wm. Hooker’re- 
garded as a variety o us crispus Pe LENIUM SEPTENTRIONALE, L, 
This was coleaed by. C. Wright farther south; and these two stations are 
mixe 
‘ES, 623. HOCHLHNA Fsnpieri, Kunze, Filices, 2 ,p. 87, 
t. 136; the same as Parry’s 396. A species recently astingushed from N. 
dealbata. 694. PoLypopIuM vuLeare, L, 695. P. Dryo = 
Gyptane ot tn Freitas of Siaee California, in the abel Institution, 
Collected by Mr. J. Xantus. 
BY THEODORE GILL. 
PART 
: ‘Subfamily sean ty x pieegx ) 
Nine genera of this subfamily are now known to be represented by species 
ali gcc the — satay at America ty the Galle peg Islands. The ey may 
be 
ak Pe De with the a deuminate. 
ateral line before superior, deflected behind ‘Pronotogrammus. 
Lateral line normal. -- Brachyrhinus. 
Caudal not forked : 
As Caarue | ret developed. 
B. “ae ae XI. r 
C ical Mycteroperca. 
cc, rie in a longitu 
“Body oblong; anon Gbove lateral WO cance douse Labroperca, 
hai oval, with cteno be scales Epinephelus. 
BB. Dorsal ble dp ated; spin 
C. Head with gape decarved scaly UDOVE rrseeseeseeeee Paralabrax, 
CC. Head conic ; ed 
Spinous <n es retired Atractoperca, 
— dorsal, incurved behind the third elon- 
ne Gonioperca, 
AA. A rae om entirely obsolete : Dermatolepis. 
_ ‘The preceding table — only the — Striking characters; those are 
elisbes peated by others, which appear to amply authorize their generic dis- 
be Row on —? the genera do Seu follow side other in a strictly 
naturab 
+ Genus gh 2 aha sgt 
This — has the form of Brachyrhinus. The wea eon be moderate, 
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