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The American Midland, Naturalist 
2tional Musee 
PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY THE UNIVERSIT 
OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA 
VOL. VII. MARCH, 1g2t. NO. 2, 
Some Species of Podosemum. 
BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUSH. 
In a paper on the Muhlenbergias of Missouri,!-I pointed out that 
the plant long known as Muhlenbergia capillaris had been taken 
as the type of a new genus by Desvaux,’ to which he applied the 
name PODOSEMUM. 
This view of Desvaux’s seems to me to be quite reasonable; 
this species and its allies differing superficially and in all essential 
characters from the other species of Muhlenbergia, and I shall 
now take into consideration a few of the species related to the type- 
species. 
1. PODOSEMUM CAPILLARE (Lamarck) Desvaux, 1810. 
A full and complete account of this species has been given in a 
preceding paper. The next two species are closely related to, 
and are often confused with this, and sometimes considered as 
varieties of it. , 
2. PODOSEMUM FILIPES (M. A. Curtis). n. comb. 
Muhlenbergia filipes M. A. Curtis, Am. Journ. Sec. 1:44.83.1843 
Muhlenbergia capillaris Chapman. Fl. S. U. S. 603, 1857, 
in part, at least as to description, not of Trinius, 1824. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
NORTH CAROLINA: 
Without definite locality, Curtis, date not given, M. B. G. 
Herb. No 79695. 
FLORIDA: 
Apalachicola, Chapman, date not given, M. B. G. Herb. 
No. 785596; 
1-BusH. The Missouri Muhlenbergias, The Midland Naturalist, 93, 19109. 
2—DrEsvAux. Nom. Buhl. Soc. Philom. 2:189, 1810. 
3 = BUSH. sl. GO3))T O19. 
