1896. ] Nash's ‘‘American Grasses.” 19 
never terminal except in certain Agrostis species and other 
grasses from which the palea is wholly absent, and there is 
no homology between the floral glumes and the true scales of 
a rhizome. e glumes are not borne upon the axis of the 
flower. The latter is a branch bearing a naked flower. If 
true scales exist in the grass spikelet they are represented by 
the lodicules to which the term scale has frequently been ap- 
plied in systematic works. 
a botanical journal of eminent standing should inaugurate so 
radical a change in terminology without presenting any rea- 
sons for so doing is remarkable.—JARED G. SMITH, JU. S. 
Dep't of A griculture, 
