80 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OP 



perennial grass, with the aspect of a Mulenbergia or of a Polypogon, but with 



a coma of silky hairs around the flower, as in a Calamagrostis. Culm a foot 



and a half high, from a creeping rhizoma, retrorsely pubescent at the nodes. 



Sheaths scabrous, equalling the internodes ; ligule short, fringed ; leaves 3 



or 4 inches long, dull green, rough on both sides. Panicle lead-colored, 



about 3 inches long; the branches solitary, appressed, densely many-flowered. 



Spikelets very short-pedicelled, compressed, pubescent, a line and a half 



long. Glumes narrow, very acute, serrulate on the keel, -the lower a little 



the longer. Awn rough and flexuose, purplish, three or four lines long. — G. 

 Thurberr 



FILICES. 



087. Aspidium Filix-mas, Swartz. ; apparently identical with the European 

 plant. 688. Cryptogramme acrostichoides, R. Br., by Sir Wm. Hooker re- 

 garded as a variety of Alhsoru* crispus. 689^. Asplenium septenteionale, L, 

 This was collected by C. Wright farther south; and these two stations are 

 the only known American ones. 690. Cystopteris fragilis, Benin., mixed 

 with a JVoodsi a, the same as Parry's 394, formerly named W. obtusa ; but 

 it is of a different species. 691,. Cheilanthes Fexdleri, Hook. 692. Asple- 

 nium Trichomanes. L. 693 . I 



/ f^^^™^^* ■ i — ~ — -» j ^m « •» -v ***** m — * m^r m "w ■ W 



t. 136; the same as Parry's 396. A species recently distinguished from N. 

 dealbata. 694. Polypodium vulgare, L. 695. P. Dryopteris, L. 



Catalogue of the FISHES of Lower California, in the Smithsonian Institution, 



Collected by Mr. J. Xantus. 



BY THEODORE GILL. 



PART IV. 



Subfamily SERRANIN.% (Swainson.) 



Nine genera of this subfamily are now known to be represented by species 

 along the western coast of America and the Gallapagos Islands. They may 

 be thus di inguished :— J .. 



I. Caudal with the lobes acuminate. 



Lateral line before superior, deflected behind Pronotogrammus. 



Lateral line normal Brachyrhinus. 



[I. Caudal not forked. 



A. Canine teeth developed. 

 B. Dorsal spines XI. 



C Nostrils in a vertical row Mycteroperca. 



CC. Nostrils in a longitudinal row. 



Body oblong; smooth above lateral line Labroperca. 



Body oval, with ctenoid scales Epinephelus. 



BB. Doi 1 emarginated ; spines X. 



C. Head with profile decurved, scaly above Paralabrax. 



CC. Head conic; naked between eyes. 



Spinous dorsal rounded Atractoperca. 



Spinous dorsal, incurved behind the third elon- 



i . - . gated spine Gonioperca. 



AA. tanine teeth entirely obsolete Dermatolepis. 



The preceding table gives only the more striking characters; those are 

 accompanied by others, which appear to amplv authorize their generic dis- 

 tinction. In the table, the genera do not follow each other in a strictly 

 natural order. 



Genus PRONOTOGRAMMUS Gill. 

 This genus has the form of Brachyrhinus. The body is covered by moderate, 



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