94 THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATUR \L1ST 



I. PoDOSEMUM CAPILLARS (Lamarck) Desv. Nouv. Bull. Soc. 

 Philom. 2: 188. 1810. 

 Stipa capillaris Lam. Tabl. Encycl. i: 158. 1791. 

 Muhlenbergia capillaris (Lam.) Trin. Gram. Unifl. 191. 1824. 

 Muhlenhergia filipes Chapman, Fl. S. U. vS. 603, 1897, in part, 



not M. FILIPES M. A. Curtis, 1843. 

 Muhlenhergia capillaris Kunth, Tracy in Flora of Missouri, 

 No. 1640, as from Boone County, Missouri, collected by Galloway, 

 but not given by Daniels in his Flora- of Columbia, Missouri, 

 1907, and no specimens known from north of the Missouri River. 

 Muhlenhergia capillaris (Lam.) Trin., Palmer in Catalogue 

 Plants of Jasper County, Missouri, No. 2828, 1916. 

 Central Texas to Fla. and Va., according to Dewey in Manual 

 of the Plants of Western Texas. 



Mass. to Fla. west to Mo. and Texas, Hitchcock in Manual. 

 Mass. N. J. and Mo. to Fla. the Ind. Terr, and Texas, Nash in 

 Flora. 



Mass. to Kans. Fla. and Texas, Nash in Illustrated Flora. 

 New Jersey southward along the coast to Florida, west to Texas, 

 aud in the interior to Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Southern 

 Missouri and Oklahoma, therefore being largely a coast species; 

 no specimens have been seen from east of New Jersey or west of 

 Eastern Texas. 

 Specimens Examined: 

 New Jersey: 



Atlantic County, C. A. Gross, September 3, 1897; 

 Millburn, Mackenzie 580, September 20, 1903; 

 Sussex County, Mackenzie 1121, September 25, 1904. 

 Maryland : 



Glen Echo, Steele, September 25, 1904, U. S. A. Herb.; 

 Great Falls of the Potomac, Ball 72, September 4, 1S99, M. 

 B. G. Herb. No. 79791. 

 District of Columbia: 



Great Falls of the Potomac, Holm, October 13, 1898, M. B. 



G. Herb. No. 779209; 

 Washington, M'ard, September, 1875, M. B. G. Herb. No. 

 75887. 

 Virginia: 



Bedford County, Curtiss, September, M. B. G. Herb. No. 

 772781; 



