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Syn eae feminee: Antephora azilliflora, Steudel, 
Chan: i p. 111—Drummond Tex, II., 359. Wright,.1849, 
785 ; 186159, 2079 (fide Torrey). 
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observers until it was described by Steudel, . the year 1855, 
mond’s Texan specimens, as a totally different 
eg and nes even to a different tribe. Though Prof. 
ad already, in Emory’s i ase 1848, suggested the 
of the B lo-grass a dicecious plant, 
the psy that Nuttall’s Saelioks ctyloides and Steu- 
del’s. @ awilliflora could be the male and the female 
mann, who, as geologist, ied the hical 1 
accompanied t graphical co 
attached to the army of Utah, < was arc we their simi- 
surmise, much doubted at ieee became a certain- 
rg when discover ants, collected by 
eben about Fort Kearny on the bret Hee [oy 
Portant specimen i is given on Pl. at | 
aot plant i iy Uetitist the "iis has aeany” en 
self ae y Torrey We p- 15h), and indeed by Nuttall him- 
Athere aos mae and both have pointed to its affinity to 
fully t Chondrosi ii e description now given 
both positions. It also leaves no doubt that it 
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herbari specimens, 
long, with j internodes of 4 pts ¥ inches in length; . 
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