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cireum flores poperiores convolutis. Squamule nulle. Stami- 
na 3 rudimentaria minuta. Ovarium lanceolato-lineare, tri- 
gonum, basi in atktent angustatum, apice acutato bifidum 
glabrum; styli terminales erecti, ovarium equantes ; stig- 
mata stylis duplo longiora, ex floris apice exserta, pilis s 
plicibus plumosa. Caryopsis libera triangularis. 
en littoribus sinus Mexicani Texanis Floridanisque 
incolum, ramosum, stoloniferum, fruticulosum ; foliis brevissi- 
mis, rigidis, squarrosis ; floribus vix conspicuis—Monantho- 
chlo® greece gramen floribus lekanheras singulis gaudens. 
MoNANTHOCHLO# LITTORALIS, nov. spec. 
Perennis suffruticosa ramosissima stolonifera glabriuscula ; 
foliis fasciculatis linearibus falcatis brevibus rigidis multi- 
win in rin A on the island of Galveston rons covering 
iat, sandy, saline soil.” I have se able a 
cimens, female plants in flower, an 
dan of idhanae hs collected bo both sexes, the fe females 
thie miantly than the males. The bas fruit is unknown 
Sits 58 inches high, much branched, erect or often at 
he one and rooting; upper branches mostly s nor 
Leaves short rarely more than 3 lines long, wery Tigi, ‘igi, 
a nerved, apparently permanent in a 
as at the ends of the stems and branches. aha tl 
im all bear buds more or less developed. Spike- 
n 3 and 4 lines long) solitary, terminal, enclosed 
lon 3. OF the spikelet upperm 
kas doubtful and intermediate character, and hod 
ve ukeh for one or the other, or Sts Sale pete | 
“ay fata includes an h e, which can not be 
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